steered forward on our voyage to the Cape of Good Hope.

Arriving at the Cape, I immediately gave orders to repair my former
chariot and machines, which were very expeditiously performed by the
excellent artists I had brought with me from Europe. And now everything
being refitted, we launched forth upon the water: perhaps there never
was anything seen more glorious or more august. 'Twas magnificent to
behold Sphinx make her obeisance on the water, and the crickets chirp
upon the bulls in return of the salute; while Gog and Magog, advancing,
took the reins of the great John Mowmowsky, and leading towards us
chariot and all, instantly disposed of them to the forepart of the ark
by hooks and eyes, and tackled Sphinx before all the bulls. Thus the
whole had a most tremendous and triumphal appearance. In front floated
forwards the mighty Sphinx, with Gog and Magog on each side; next
followed in order the bulls with crickets upon their heads; and then
advanced the chariot of Queen Mab, containing the curious seat and
orrery of heaven; after which appeared the boat and ark of council,
overtopped with two balloons, which gave an air of greater lightness and
elegance to the whole. I placed in the galleries under the balloons, and
on the backs of the bulls, a number of excellent vocal performers,
with martial music of clarionets and trumpets. They sung the "Watery
Dangers," and the "Pomp of Deep Cerulean!" The sun shone glorious on the
water while the procession advanced toward the land, under five hundred
arches of ice, illuminated with coloured lights, and adorned in the most
grotesque and fanciful style with sea-weed, elegant festoons, and shells
of every kind; while a thousand water-spouts danced eternally before
and after us, attracting the water from the sea in a kind of cone, and
suddenly uniting with the most fantastical thunder and lightning.

Having landed our whole retinue, we immediately began to proceed toward