This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1855 Excerpt: ...in a public paper a statement from an individual who described the Russians as having a most awful horror and fear of the sea, and consequently being the poorest and worst sailors in the world. This was to prove how unfit they were to cope with our navy. As regards being bad sailors and unable to contend with the ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1855 Excerpt: ...in a public paper a statement from an individual who described the Russians as having a most awful horror and fear of the sea, and consequently being the poorest and worst sailors in the world. This was to prove how unfit they were to cope with our navy. As regards being bad sailors and unable to contend with the English, this may be true--I dare say it is true; but this I know, that whether they have a horror or not of the salt water, they have very little fear of fresh water; and for my part, I never saw anything to indicate a fear of the sea. If they have an inefficient navy, I think it must arise from some other cause. I think Englishmen who have lived in Russia will bear me out if I assert that the Russians have less, far less, fear of water than the English. Which of us in England has seen 20, 30, or 40 young lads and lasses, under 20 years of age, take hold of hands and plunge into a river, neck deep the first step, wade about, and amuse themselves in deep as well as shallow water, a portion of them crossing over places between two and three yards deep, sometimes the head out, sometimes over head, but principally borne across by having hold of the hands of those in the more shallow water. Every portion of the gang will in turn cross this deep and dangerous, part, and this for mere amusement. All sorts of wild evolutions are performed by the company while in the water; semetimes attempting to run races, swimming, rolling over each other, standing on each other's shoulders, then falling headlong into the river again. Now, compare this with the bati of an English lady, although in the grasp of a conductress--timidly and cautiously proceeding in the shallow water, inch by inch, step by step, trembling, sighing, shrieking, and often fainting before the wa...
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