Wind always against us.

Ill, & suffering from head & nerves horribly. The company are all pleasant. The Captain also particularly so. But I could not join at meals at all. Towards 2 or 3 P.M. ― (when we ought to have been at Corfu ―) great wind began, & the good Europa went up & down assai:1 yet she never shipped seas, or “lateralizzava”2

Worse & worse at 4 ― & 5 & 6 ― & only at 7 did we see [Passon].

Then I [turned on] Bianca & all Chimara3 passed ghostly by at 10 & 11 ― & with a frightful storm of wind wh. we could not escape from. I have not been in a worse gale ― only the sea in that canale is ristretto. At 12 “utterly outworn” I lay down & slept.

[Transcribed by Marco Graziosi from Houghton Library, Harvard University, MS Eng. 797.3.]

  1. Very much. [↩]
  2. Moved sideways. [↩]
  3. Himarë. [↩]