of us!

"Benjamin S. Wright," fore-and-aft schooner, one hundred and thirty-six
tons, built by McKay, and worthy of him,--deep, sharp, broad of beam, a
fine seaboat, swift as the wind, a little long-masted for regular
sea-voyaging, but, with this partial exception, faultless.

Next will naturally come the responsible originator and operator of the
expedition.

William Bradford, artist,--slight in stature, delicate, though marked,
in feature,--sensitive, pious, ardent, absorbed,--not of distinguished
mental power, though of active mind, aside from his profusion, but
within it a proper man of genius, with no superior, so far as I know,
but Turner, and no equal but Stanfield, in his power to render the sea
in action.

The passengers were twelve in number; but with them I include two
others, who have a claim to that company. Here they are.

A----, "the Colonel,"--a lieutenant in the regular army, retired on
account of illness,--brave, intelligent, cultivated, a Churchman
undeveloped in spiritual sense, rough in his sports, proud as a Roman,
his whole being, indeed, built up on manly, Roman pride,--a Greenland
voyager, and better read than any man I have met in the literature of
Northern travel.

H----, "the Judge,"--cool-headed, warm-hearted, compassionate,
irascible, liberal, witty, easy speaker and fine conversationist, with
an inexhaustible fund of sense, anecdote, candor, and good heart.

L----, navy-surgeon,--also retired on account of extreme illness,--a
sensible, quiet, good man and gentleman.

A. S. Packard, Jr., _Magister Artium_, scientist,--devoting his
attention chiefly to Insecta, Mollusca, and Radiata, but giving
penetrating glances at geology and physical geography,--attracted to the
North, where he had been before,--imperturbable, equal in humor and
good-humor, companionable, a boon to the party, and richly meriting the
thanks I here offer him.

M----, ornithologist,--young, unripe, inattentive to his person, but
very intelligent, and bound to be a man of mark.

S----, "the Parson,"--Episcopal, twenty-five years old, active in mind,
naturally eloquent, pious, social, genial, generous, and frank as the
day.

P----, graduate of college and law-school,--handsome, companionable,
fluent in writing or talk, and excellent at trolling a stave.

L----, quietest mouse in the world, but seen at once to be a gentleman,
and found afterwards to be a man of thought and culture.

C----, with the gravest, m