than when he is brought face to face with nature
upon the ocean. See him as he scans the horizon
with anxious and fearful eye, watching for an enemy
which he knows is his master; mark him, when that
enemy appears, cringing and shrinking from the shock
of battle, his ship tossing helplessly with folded and
bedraggled wings, as if seeking to become so small
and insignificant that the storm will sweep over her
bowed head in contemptuous pity.
But what a different aspect man presents when braving and contending with perils such as those to which our overland immigrants were exposed. They were not so much at the mercy of capricious elements, to drive them hundreds of miles out of their course or retard their journey for months. Upon their own strength, courage, and endurance they relied. Having determined their route they set their faces westward, and westward by that route they went until their goal was reached, opposing force with force, meeting danger, difficulty, and hardship, without flinching, conquering every foot of the way by their own indomitable will.
Yet, alas 1 many here fell by the way, as we have seen.
