entirely depends on our getting off before the season is
further advanced, you can understand how disagreeable it
is to have received this check at its very outset.  As
yet, of course, I know nothing of the nature of the
illness with which he has been seized.  However, I have
ordered the schooner to proceed at once to Oban, and I
have sent back the Doctor to Holyhead to overhaul the
sick man.  It is rather early in the day for him to enter
upon the exercise of his functions. 

LETTER II. 

THE ICELANDER--A MODERN SIR PATRICK SPENS 

Greenock, Tuesday, June 3, 1856 

I found the Icelander awaiting my arrival here,--pacing
up and down the coffee-room like a Polar bear. 

At first he was a little shy, and, not having yet had