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I prefer not to think of any such contingency : She has excellent sailing qualities , And her captain appears to rule with stringency And to be averse from minor frivolities . With the late Admiral Nelson he may not provoke comparison . But one and all place implicit confidence in Captain Harrison . '' While Plinny cultivated the Muse -- and with the more zest as , to her pride and delight , she found herself immune from sea-sickness -- I kept up , through the long mornings , the pretence of studying mathematics with Captain Branscome , and regularly at noon received a lesson in taking the ship 's bearings . Our fellow-voyagers were mostly merchants and agents bound for Jamaica , the trade of which had revived since the restoration of peace ; and among them we passed for a well-to-do family travelling partly for pleasure to visit the island , but partly also with an idea of buying a plantation and settling there -- which explained the presence of Mr. Goodfellow . Our captain justified the confidence so poetically expressed above . He sailed his ship along steadily , taking no risks , and after a pleasant passage of thirty-six days brought her to anchor in Carlisle Bay , Barbadoes , where we were due to deliver some bags of mails .