The voyage takes eight hours.

M.Grimani, M.Baffo, and my mother accompanied me.

I slept with her in the saloon, and the two friends passed the night in one of the cabins.

My mother rose at day break, opened one of the windows facing the bed, and the rays of the rising sun, falling on my eyes, caused me to open them.

The bed was too low for me to see the land; I could see through the window only the tops of the trees along the river.