Voyaging in Wild Seas

Kittredge London Charmian

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Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. Later. - They are rigging up a topsail to put Speed on the yacht, and Bert has climbed the mainmast to straighten out something. He is a goodly sight, clinging high, his bare, powerful arms working at the swaying masthead. The extra sail 15 making the boat drive faster, but some thing 18 wrong with it, and although adding to our speed, it is so horribly ill-setting that Roscoe is promptly taking it down. And Oh. It's great, this rush of wind and wave -a wonderful new life, all the working of this little world of plank and iron and brass and canvas. And if I can feel enthusiasm while my stomach is still wavering between belt and throat, fancy the enjoyment to come.

Sujets

• Adventure (Guyana)
• Adventure

Informations

• Publié par: Forgotten Books
• Date de parution: 27 novembre 2019
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9780243712922
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 7 Mo

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A b o r d t h e i O e h a A p r i good to keep any longer this j o y living that is begi n ng make itself felt aboard the an hour I ve been dangl ng my feet ov r edge the life boa l hed the deck windward watching the purple water swash ar d out O cuppersf the lee O u r m idday mea fi nished concocted b y Martin mys e f Martin b en and s till a little wor e from sickness than I and are ly lazy all comforta And speaking the j oy living as felt aboard the it a matter degree Martin yet come feel it and Tochigi alleged cabin boy s ccumbed to the e fects of with the characteri tic abandon of the iati He can t or thinks he can t lift afinger and there are many fi fted in theto be li gers necessarily m nagement the S is very much needed in ourhip he m i dst the water is purple and I am recovering fr m my s easickness w ch seemed quite violent me but was in re lity a mild attack Roscoe and B ert have had no naus ea but a heav las situde has taken the place of ordinar y The hors enginee power s eas ickness pumping j uice into e batteries dinner is s ettling the most en manner the life boat is being packed with diet for emergency been hosed down although Jack was the only with energy enough to make a start at it j oy of j oys the under mainsail staysail j ib and j ib

V O A G I NG I N W I EASLD S steering herself night and day This a great relief ca se s ever hours at the wheel keepin the cours e south by eas t very well t i ring the untried spine But we keep a war y eye u s andpon the compas cou rs e regu lar watches at night have been only three days from O akland wharf and all the sou ls waved u s farewell an d fair weather but there is much tell begin with the water pu rple and su ch purple Jack and I took a trip ou t the end the bowsprit this afternoon and for a long tim e watching little white ship cleave the amethystfloo Afterward lay over the stern rail loo ing at the gold r dder dragging through the pu rple you remem that gorgeous picture by Parrish inbad the ailor Th e colou rs have seen day r ival oriental s plendour O o and gold and pu rplef indi s t this moment rem inis cent s ally on the owsprit I glanced that B ehold Jack arrayed Jimmie Hopper famous blue and gold sweater gazing again at the pu rple water under the J immie Hopper s first V sweater whichars ity flew at mast h ad when left O akland This morning Jack called me Hurry deck the ocean is alive with Portugu es e men Myfirst thought alarm n xt I wished Jack would say water ins tead O f ocean the latter sounded remo e see in my inner cons ciousne s I am still land Then I oriented mys elf took a goo look at the mighty wet the prodigious damp that enc mpas sed u s and began S hake the land dust out of my b ain The fearsome Portugu es e men war tu rn ed out be pretty j elly hke bits life turquois e blue transpar nt organisms each w th a milky sail hoisted to the breeze Thefloating countless myriads them and hauled ab rd in canvas bu finding them no less rangelos e beau tiful Then the gu i es I said there much to tell First day guny s econd day gunies to day four u ie they will eat anything but or nge p el A

V O Y AG I NG I N W I LD SEAS human being is the only animal that has s ense en ugh to make of orange peel though he disguises prett y thoroughly before he nds it palatable A guny cas e you don t happen to know looks like a dark grey over grown s eagull until he essays to fold his wings pon the water Then there is a I trie to fold his wings because each attempt appears to be a brand new experiment each experiment rivalling the l t in awkwardness O three j nce folded down ointed pinions do not always seem to comfortably whereupon the bird fusses around and settles them until possibly another bird has e ten what he af er are the birds that get s easick when they captured like to see something s easick besides a human being And like to s ee Tochigi make even a feeble attempt to something els e than a corps e It cannot be possible that he seas ick ess He was ever a willing worker But do not think a moment that watch ing gun i es and Portu uese men war and have been my only occupations I hav cleaned up the greasyfilthy littered flthe engine room oors of state roomsroom two the bath and with poor s ick Martin s help the cabin I did think I could stay long b low but the mess bearable although it s eem to bother any one Jack and me should have seen my hands thes e three days But I have made merry with much s oap strong ammonia and as little precious fresh water was racticable Now I feel more like a white woman Have I said anything about the weather It would not do to leave the weather out of a L theog anchored Alameda Pier the day we bade O akland g ood bye Monday spent the night there under starry skies The next day overcast Wednesday was overcast Thursday to ay is overc t and we have had no O bs ervation patent log registers about seventy m les for the p s t twenty four hours and now atficlock p we areve o swin ing along i still ove cast a n a fresh breeze faint S ilver sunset the rey horizon