Sailing south soon became monotonous. He wrote of the unvarying repetition of these duties, and spelled out the predicament: No one who has not been [on] a long, dull voyage, shut up in one ship, can conceive of the effect of monotony upon ones thoughts and wishes. the prospect of change is like a green spot in a desert, and the remotest replica Tissot watch probability of great events and exciting scenes gives a feeling of delight, and sets life in motion, so as to give a pleasure, which any one not in the same state would be entirely unable to account for.He thought of home: Everyone away from home thinks that some great thing must have happened, while to those at home there seems to be a continued monotony and lack of incident.The monotony worsened on the return trip:
The sole object was to make the time pass on. Any chance was sought for, which would break the monotony of the time; and even the two hours’ trick at the wheel, which came round to each of us, in turn, once in every other watch, was looked upon as a replica Corum watches relief. Even the never-failing resource of long yarns, which eke out many a watch, seemed to have failed us now; for we had been so long together that we had heard each other’s stories told over and over again, till we had them by heart; each one knew the whole history of each of the others, and we were fairly and literally talked out.
Singing and joking, we were in no humor for, and, in fact, any sound of mirth or laughter would have struck strangely upon our ears, and would not have been tolerated, any more than whistling, or a wind instrument. The last resort, that of replica Ulysse Nardin watch speculating upon the future, seemed now to fail us, for our discouraging situation, and the danger we were really in, (as we expected every day to find ourselves drifted back among the ice) “clapped a stopper” upon all that. From saying—“when we get home”—we began insensibly to alter it to—“if we get home”—and at last the subject was dropped by a tacit consent.
