CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHTH.--Sail for Home--Pass the “Golden Gate”--Sad

Condition of the Passengers--Graves at the Base of the Snowy Mountains--Land Recedes--Luxuries on Board--A Death and Burial--Another Death--Whales and Porpoises _versus_ Serpents of Fire--Thunder Storm--Death of Dr. Reed--Three Dead Bodies found on Board--The Scurvy--Five of the Passengers Insane--Evils of the Credit System--A Cultivated Mind deranged--Memory lost--Its Cause--The Victim upon the Verge of Death--Harpooning Porpoises--Exciting Sport, 169