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1My life, as it passed thus, was indeed hateful to me, and it was during sleep alone that I could taste joy. O blessed
2sleep! Often, when most miserable, I sank to repose, and my dreams lulled me even to rapture. The spirits that guarded
3me had provided these moments, or rather hours, of happiness that I might retain strength to fulfil my pilgrimage.
4Deprived of this respite, I should have sunk under my hardships. During the day I was sustained and inspirited by the
5hope of night, for in sleep I saw my friends, my wife, and my beloved country; again I saw the benevolent countenance of
6my father, heard the silver tones of my Elizabeth's voice, and beheld Clerval enjoying health and youth. Often, when
7wearied by a toilsome march, I persuaded myself that I was dreaming until night should come and that I should then enjoy
8reality in the arms of my dearest friends. What agonising fondness did I feel for them! How did I cling to their dear
9forms, as sometimes they haunted even my waking hours, and persuade myself that they still lived! At such moments
10vengeance, that burned within me, died in my heart, and I pursued my path towards the destruction of the dæmon more as a
11task enjoined by heaven, as the mechanical impulse of some power of which I was unconscious, than as the ardent desire
12of my soul. What his feelings were whom I pursued I cannot know. Sometimes, indeed, he left marks in writing on the
13barks of the trees or cut in stone that guided me and instigated my fury. "My reign is not yet over"--these words were
14legible in one of these inscriptions--"you live, and my power is complete. Follow me; I seek the everlasting ices of the
15north, where you will feel the misery of cold and frost, to which I am impassive. You will find near this place, if you
16follow not too tardily, a dead hare; eat and be refreshed. Come on, my enemy; we have yet to wrestle for our lives, but
17many hard and miserable hours must you endure until that period shall arrive." Scoffing devil! Again do I vow vengeance;
18again do I devote thee, miserable fiend, to torture and death. Never will I give up my search until he or I perish; and
19then with what ecstasy shall I join my Elizabeth and my departed friends, who even now prepare for me the reward of my
20tedious toil and horrible pilgrimage! As I still pursued my journey to the northward, the snows thickened and the cold
21increased in a degree almost too severe to support. The peasants were shut up in their hovels, and only a few of the
22most hardy ventured forth to seize the animals whom starvation had forced from their hiding-places to seek for prey. The
23rivers were covered with ice, and no fish could be procured; and thus I was cut off from my chief article of
24maintenance. The triumph of my enemy increased with the difficulty of my labours. One inscription that he left was in
25these words: "Prepare! Your toils only begin; wrap yourself in furs and provide food, for we shall soon enter upon a
26journey where your sufferings will satisfy my everlasting hatred." My courage and perseverance were invigorated by these
27scoffing words; I resolved not to fail in my purpose, and calling on Heaven to support me, I continued with unabated
28fervour to traverse immense deserts, until the ocean appeared at a distance and formed the utmost boundary of the
29horizon. Oh! How unlike it was to the blue seasons of the south! Covered with ice, it was only to be distinguished from
30land by its superior wildness and ruggedness. The Greeks wept for joy when they beheld the Mediterranean from the hills
31of Asia, and hailed with rapture the boundary of their toils. I did not weep, but I knelt down and with a full heart
32thanked my guiding spirit for conducting me in safety to the place where I hoped, notwithstanding my adversary's gibe,
33to meet and grapple with him. Some weeks before this period I had procured a sledge and dogs and thus traversed the
34snows with inconceivable speed. I know not whether the fiend possessed the same advantages, but I found that, as before
35I had daily lost ground in the pursuit, I now gained on him, so much so that when I first saw the ocean he was but one
36day's journey in advance, and I hoped to intercept him before he should reach the beach. With new courage, therefore, I
37pressed on, and in two days arrived at a wretched hamlet on the seashore. I inquired of the inhabitants concerning the
38fiend and gained accurate information. A gigantic monster, they said, had arrived the night before, armed with a gun and
39many pistols, putting to flight the inhabitants of a solitary cottage through fear of his terrific appearance. He had
40carried off their store of winter food, and placing it in a sledge, to draw which he had seized on a numerous drove of
41trained dogs, he had harnessed them, and the same night, to the joy of the horror-struck villagers, had pursued his
42journey across the sea in a direction that led to no land; and they conjectured that he must speedily be destroyed by
43the breaking of the ice or frozen by the eternal frosts. On hearing this information I suffered a temporary access of
44despair. He had escaped me, and I must commence a destructive and almost endless journey across the mountainous ices of
45the ocean, amidst cold that few of the inhabitants could long endure and which I, the native of a genial and sunny
46climate, could not hope to survive. Yet at the idea that the fiend should live and be triumphant, my rage and vengeance
47returned, and like a mighty tide, overwhelmed every other feeling. After a slight repose, during which the spirits of
48the dead hovered round and instigated me to toil and revenge, I prepared for my journey. I exchanged my land-sledge for
49one fashioned for the inequalities of the Frozen Ocean, and purchasing a plentiful stock of provisions, I departed from
50land. I cannot guess how many days have passed since then, but I have endured misery which nothing but the eternal
51sentiment of a just retribution burning within my heart could have enabled me to support. Immense and rugged mountains
52of ice often barred up my passage, and I often heard the thunder of the ground sea, which threatened my destruction. But
53again the frost came and made the paths of the sea secure. By the quantity of provision which I had consumed, I should
54guess that I had passed three weeks in this journey; and the continual protraction of hope, returning back upon the
55heart, often wrung bitter drops of despondency and grief from my eyes. Despair had indeed almost secured her prey, and I
56should soon have sunk beneath this misery. Once, after the poor animals that conveyed me had with incredible toil gained
57the summit of a sloping ice mountain, and one, sinking under his fatigue, died, I viewed the expanse before me with
58anguish, when suddenly my eye caught a dark speck upon the dusky plain. I strained my sight to discover what it could be
59and uttered a wild cry of ecstasy when I distinguished a sledge and the distorted proportions of a well-known form
60within. Oh! With what a burning gush did hope revisit my heart! Warm tears filled my eyes, which I hastily wiped away,
61that they might not intercept the view I had of the dæmon; but still my sight was dimmed by the burning drops, until,
62giving way to the emotions that oppressed me, I wept aloud. But this was not the time for delay; I disencumbered the
63dogs of their dead companion, gave them a plentiful portion of food, and after an hour's rest, which was absolutely
64necessary, and yet which was bitterly irksome to me, I continued my route. The sledge was still visible, nor did I again
65lose sight of it except at the moments when for a short time some ice-rock concealed it with its intervening crags. I
66indeed perceptibly gained on it, and when, after nearly two days' journey, I beheld my enemy at no more than a mile
67distant, my heart bounded within me.
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