Page 440 of 483

I cannot guess how many days have passed since then, but I have

endured misery which nothing but the eternal sentiment of a just

retribution burning within my heart could have enabled me to

support. Immense and rugged mountains of ice often barred up my

passage, and I often heard the thunder of the ground sea, which

threatened my destruction. But again the frost came and made the

paths of the sea secure.