Chronicles of Notre Dame du Lac
Edward Sorin, CSC -- Translated by John M. Toohey, CSC, 1895

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1841-1842

pg 7         time nor with greater joy and gratitude.  Numbers of times, they 
             charged their Guardian Angels to bear back the ardent prayers 
             which they addressed to heaven for his happiness and long life.  
             God thus seemed to wish to make them forget their first 
             apprehension, and by a concurrence of circumstances equally 
             unexpected and agreeable, he was pleased, we may say, to cause 
             tears of gratitude and admiration to take the place of those 
             tears of sorrow which the exile's heart feels the need of 
             shedding when he leaves the native soil to which he may never 
             return.
                  Eight days passed and still they had not left the British 
             Channel, and those eight days were bad days for the whole crew.  
             Although the sea was not in one of its furious moods, the 
             rolling was greater than usual, and all the passengers suffered 
             much.  One only escaped sea-sickness for a time, and his services 
             were all the more valuable to his companions, because, were it 
             not for him, they would have had to suffer without attendance.  
             Whoever has had experience of the sea knows how it paralyzes and 
             in a sense annihilates the physical and moral powers of even the 
             most courageous.  Hardly had a little share of health and energy 
             returned to the little colony when Bro. Vincent, whose attentions