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"Did you not call this a glorious expedition? And wherefore was it glorious? Not because the way waws smooth and placid as a southern sea but because it was full of dangers and terror; because, at every new incident, your fortitude was to be called forth and your courage exhibited; because danger and death surrounded, and these dangers you were to brave and overcome."

"I, the only unquiet thing that wandered restless in a scene so beautiful and heavenly ... was tempted to plunge into the silent lake, that the waters might close over me and my calamities for ever."

"Before, I looked upon the accounts of vice and injustice, that I read in books ... as tales of ancient days ... but now misery has come home, and men appear to me as monsters thirsting for each other's blood."