Havre-de-Grâce – Stay there – Mr. Eyriès and his country home – Dealers in natural history objects – Large amount of foreign curiosities – Cabinets – The harbor and trade – Stores – the Bavarian consul Mr. Meinel – Trip to Harfleur – Pack voyage on the steamboat Le Rouannais to Rouen – Stay there – The cathedral – Dealers in natural history objects – Departure from Rouen to Abbeville – Stay there – The cabinets of Messrs. Baillon and Delamotte – Rüppel’s stranded natural history objects at the mouth of the Somme – Journey via Montreuil – Boulogne – Calais to Dunkerque – Stay there – Embarkation on the steamboat Graaf Cancrin for Rotterdam – Stay at Rotterdam – Embarkation on the steamboat Zeuw (or Nederlander) and voyage to Cologne – Journey overland via Bonn to Forch – Walk via Hammerstein, and arrival at Monrepos.
August 20, 1834
Nice weather in the morning. At twelve o’clock the bears were brought to the steamboat; the rest of our luggage came later in the afternoon. We stayed nearby until ten thirty at night, when we embarked. The night was very beautiful. The moon was shining brightly. We sailed down the long narrow harbor. At its end, one light[house] remained to our left; the other burned behind us on one of the city towers. At first, when we reached the sea in front of the harbor, the two lights coincided. But as we continued to sail [into] the Channel to the right, the lights grew farther and farther apart. Our ship, an unprepossessing, small steamboat, had perhaps 20 passengers. A strong, very brisk wind arose in the night; the seas soon became wild, and seasickness befell the passengers.