text: " In other respects also he seems to have been not less happily constituted; for though he says that "the rolling and rocking of the ship when it entered the _dark waters_ or open sea completely upset my two companions who became extremely sick"--his remarks on the incidents of the voyage and the novel phenomena which presented themselves to his view are never interrupted by any of those pathetic lamentations on the instability of the human stomach which form so important and doleful an episode in the relations of most landsmen of whatever creed or nation