Excerpt from Eighteen Months in Jamaica: With Recollections of the Late Rebellion To those, however, who have never been at sea, there is something very striking in the appearance of a ship during a heavy gale of wind. The vessel seems to be shorn of much of her beauty. She is, perhaps, lying-to under a reefed main-tri-sail, or close reefed main-top-sail and mizen. She seems stripped of her clothing, groaning and labouring in the midst of the tumult by which she is surrounded. The waves rise in angry struggle around her; ...
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Excerpt from Eighteen Months in Jamaica: With Recollections of the Late Rebellion To those, however, who have never been at sea, there is something very striking in the appearance of a ship during a heavy gale of wind. The vessel seems to be shorn of much of her beauty. She is, perhaps, lying-to under a reefed main-tri-sail, or close reefed main-top-sail and mizen. She seems stripped of her clothing, groaning and labouring in the midst of the tumult by which she is surrounded. The waves rise in angry struggle around her; they open, as it were, a watery grave; while death sits frowning on every foaming billow. It is in scenes like these, that the British sailor shines forth in his peculiar character. No howling nor violence of the storm, no heaving nor pitching of the ship daunts his English heart. He mounts the rigging with intrepidity, lays himself out on the yard, sits on the yard arm, steadily and cheerfully exerting himself to perform his allotted duty. This noble self-possession must be seen to be fully appreciated. A late British admiral once declared, that in a storm or a battle, an English sailor was more than human. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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