from the sketchbooki said that at sea all is vacancy; i should correct the impression. to one given to day--dreaming, and fond of losing himself in reveries, a sea--voyage is full of subjects for meditation; but then they are the wonders of the deep and of the air, and rather tend to abstract the mind from worldly themes. i delighted to loll over the quarter--railing, or climb to the maintop of a calm day, and muse for hours together on the tranquil bosom of a summers sea; to gaze upon the piles of golden clouds just peering above the horizon, fancy them some fairy realms, and people them with a creation of my own; to watch the gentle, undulating billows, rolling their silver volumes, as if to die away on those happy shores. 1 “nami ngizwe sengibizwa yindodana yami ingitshela ukuthi umfowethu ulimele. ingitshele ukuthi bebehambisana yabe isiyamshiya umfowethu endleleni ngoba yena ubesafuna ukuphindela emuva lapho kade bephuza khona.