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A hundred times already the sun had leaped, radiant or saddened, from / the immense cup of the sea whose rim could scarcely be seen; a hundred / times it had again sunk, glittering or morose, into its mighty bath of / twilight. For many days we had contemplated the other side of the / firmament, and deciphered the celestial alphabet of the antipodes. And / each of the passengers sighed and complained. One had said that the / approach of land only exasperated their sufferings. "When, then," they / said, "shall we cease to sleep a sleep broken by the surge, troubled by / a wind that snores louder than we? When shall we be able to eat at an / unmoving table?"
There were those who thought of their own firesides, who regretted their / sullen, faithless wives, and their noisy progeny. All so doted upon the / image of the absent land, that I believe they would have eaten grass / with as much enthusiasm as the beasts.