We have sailed over ten thousand miles, and have five thousand more to
sail before we come to “Frisco.” It seems strange to think of arriving
there by land in ten days from home, while we have been from Oct. 26th
to Jan. 12th, seventy-eight days, on our way. If we were in haste to
reach our port this difference of speed would try our patience. As it
is we are grateful; it seems painful to be whirled along in ten days,
night and day, instead of coming at our leisure unmindful of time,
willing to be where we are, indefinitely, except that we sympathize
with the captain’s desire to make a short voyage, and feeling willing
also to shorten this part of our way knowing that we shall have
sufficient experience of the sea by the time that we have belted the
globe.