I wrote therefore, and busied myself in this playing labour, oliosaque diligentia ut vitarem torporum feriandi with Vectius in Macrobius, atque otium in utile verterem negatium.

Our skipper, Juma, affirmed that there was no water to speak of; but Juma probablynay, certainlyprefers the otium of a sojourn at Sopor to the toil of punting up the Pohru.