Naval Stories (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Excerpt from Naval Stories

The crew were disposed in various groups about the deck, some idling away in listless ease the inter val of calm; some, with their clothes-bags beside them, turning it to account in overhauling their dun nage; while others moved fidgety about, on the forecastle and in the waist, eyeing, ever and anon, the horizon round, as if already weary of their short holiday on the ocean, and impatiently watching for some sign of a breeze To a true sailor there are few circumstances more annoying than a perfect calm. The same principle of our nature which makes the traveller on land, though journeying with.

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