text:  The next time we meet the poet-sailor he has embarked all he possessed in an expedition of discovery in the new world which had recently been laid open by Columbus; and this not from love of gain nor love of science nor even the ardour of enterprise but purely from the restlessness of a spirit which ejected from its home in the world of thought could never find another amongst those "serviceable realities" of life which he knew so well how to applaud