[BY W. CLA.BK BT7SSEI.Ii.] M] On April 24, 1840, having finished the business that had carried me into the Brazils, I arrived at Eio de Janeiro, where I found a vessel lying nearly loaded, and sailing for the port of Bristol in four or five days. In those timea passenger traffic - between Great Britain and the eastern coast of South America was almost entirely carried on in small ships, averaging from 200 to 500 tons. The funnel of the ocean mail steamer, with her gilded saloon and side wheels, which to the admiration of all beholders slapped twelve knots an hour out of the composite fabric, had not yet hove in sight above the horizon of commerce, and folks were very well satisfied if they were no longer than three months in reaching tho Brazilian coast out of the river Thames. The little ship in which I took passage was a barque called the Lord of the Isles; her burthen waa something under 400 tons. She was a round bowed waggon of a vanished type, with a square, sawed«off stern, painted ports, heavy overhanging channels, and as loftily rigged, I was going to say, as a line-of-battle ship, owing to her immense beam which, gave her the stability of a church. I applied to the agent and hired a cabin, and found myself, to my secret satisfaction; the only passenger in the ship. Yes, I was rejoiced to be the sole passenger : my passage out had been rendered memorably miserable by the society of as ill-conditioned, bad-tempered, sulky a lot of wretches as ever turned in of a night into bunks, and cursed the Captain in their gizzards in a calm for not being able to whistle a wind up over the sea line. The name of the skipper of the lord of the lales was Joyce. He was unlike the average run of the men in that trade. Instead of being beef faced and bow-legged, humid of eye and gay with grog blossoms, he was tall, pale, spare ; he spoke low and in a melancholy key; he never swore; he drank wine and water, and there was little or nothing in his language to suggest the sailor. His berth was right aft on the starboard side; mine was right aft also, next his. Three cabins on either hand ran forward from these two after berths. 