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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. I'LUNGED AT ONCE INTO DIFFICULTIES AND SALT WATER. FIND MYSELF UPON AN UNSTABLE FOOTING, AND DEEP IN A QUARREL. AM CURED OF MY SEA-SICKNESS, AND TAKE A STARTLING LESSON IN SEAMANSHIP. The north-easterly wind had set in with a malicious perseverance, that could he likened to nothing more aptly than the oration of a scolding termagant, gathering strength by the mere exercise of her capabilities of blustering. It blew all the livelong day: some sails were taken in, and others blown out of the boltropes, and, when night came on, we supposed that we should have a lull, upon the strength of which supposition the master took an extra glass and turned in early, and thus, between stupidity and rum, found that lull in his cot, that was not to be found, either on deck, or in the heavens, or on the face of the waters. The brig, as far as such a tub could be said to be trimmed at all, was in good trim. The lightness of her cargo was well rectified by the quantity of the ballast, and, so far, she had behaved well. I was very sick. If I repaired to the deck, L could not keep my footing, and below, the stench and the close air were nearly msupportable. These certainly are commonplace miseries; but they were, from my previous habits, my punctilious cleanliness, and the delicate nurture of my previous life, actual agonies. About eight in the evening, my torments below became unendurable; for, in addition to the nauseous effluvia of the confined cabin, and the horrible creaking of the ship's timbers, I had to be irritated with the regular, loud, and stertorous snore of the brutalized Master Tomkins, who was sleeping in a sort of cupboard immediately adjoining the cabin, of which I was so miserable a tenant. To the sleepless, and those labouring under morbid nervous affections..
| ISBN-13 | 9780217267649 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217267645 |
| Weight | 1.00 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.69 In |
| List Price | $22.26 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 308 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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