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 you. I wrote a second letter to you last October. Received your answer to my first, dated November 17th, on the 16th of last month. I wrote to Mr. J. Varney, March 23, 1841. Will write to Mr. W. Hornblower in a week or two. In my letter by the Robert Newton I tell you not to send any more newspapers by post, as I did not receive your first. As I have been more fortunate with these I would revoke that request.

The letter I receive to-day gives me much happiness. I rejoice to think that things do not appear to change for the worse at home, though I am afraid they get but little better. I scarcely know what feeling in me is strongest when I read your kind proposal to send us things from England: gratitude for or admiration of your affectionate generosity.

You wish for some account of the passage out from England. You shall have it in a few words. After gazing on the Land's End of Cornwall as it rapidly lessened away from our view on the 8th of April, 1839, we never saw land again, with the exception of the rugged cliffs of the Island of St. Antonia (the most western of the Verde Islands, off the cape of that name, on the coast of Africa), till we arrived on the opposite side of the world. We were sailing with a fair breeze,