The Republican journal., 1903-12-24
A Foreign Voyage Coastwise

shore and never clear of the headlands.
If a journal was written up in ones
mind it might always end with the old
,eamates' log book phrase, Nothing
,t note occurred this day; while as
matter of fact, if he were to think so,
more things happen every day than
would take place in week when far
at sea.
There are two changes in the routine
ot general sea- going life, equally in
,efesting, but causing entirely opposite
emotions; one disturbing, the other
,omforting. The first is after he has
heen long at sea, and then gathers in
rowards a busy coast. covered with life
and fogs, dotted with points, shoals and
currents, through which he finds his
Uav into some port, full of hustle,
tugs and turmoil where everybody
cao can possibly hope to make any
t,ng off him offers the glad hand and
saccharine smile of welcome. The
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nave been digested and appreciated, is
when he finds himself steering at right
Al gles to a disappearing coast, and
Wien a good nights run will put him
~ soundings, clear of fogs and too
,..ny neighborS on the other tack, and
IT re it will soon look AS though he
aaYs the earth and all the waters
rteof,
We're it not for the pleasure of COM
home-and that is unquestionably
greatest pleasure ever offered to
mkind-any master might well wish
.sr his whole career be made up OF
,ud chances away from frowning
,.st.
his time we started out from the
e aware. between October gales, un-
toasting papers, bound not far from
.5ue.-to our adopted island of Porto
T..a 1t is a fine StralghtWay
l passages or straits to pass through
r1thiug but open sea from port to
p.t We passed out by Cape Heniopen
-a the wind at sou-southeast-dea
..ld-and | thought of the impatient
a-Itr who lately declared that he al
a ,, had a head wind and plenty OF 1t.
.- our wind soon veered little so
FIAT we slanted out just clear OF Five
Iathom Bank lightship and before
might she was up on her course and
.aing along at fair speed, through a
-aaoth sea and with all sail set. The
.th wind veered slowly a little more
r lie westward and for three days
4U-re was nothing to do but mind the
s.eel, and there is no work in that for
8. steers like boat.
Ike men and women, no two vessels
...ue ever alike, or ever looked just the
-ne to an observant eye. So no two
rr,seIs ever acted just the same i'll all
ayS. Previous to this year l had
ed for twenty-one years in but two
Hnerent vessels, and they of nearly the
same size, of the same rig and of sim
IaI kind. One was faster than the
a-her and always held better winds,
S. lie the other was a far bet
r.. Sea-boat, and more easily man
--l and always more reliable and
omtortable The quarters in both
re planned the same, excepting
Il the last was increased in di-
nsions and improved upon the
st.
wing so long in one kind of a fiat
...J somewhat fix ones habits if not
rs ureiudices. so that radical change
plan-though more grand and Ill
.auy ways a vast improvement-may
u1 be always agreeable or promptly
npTeciated. Extremely high ceilings
III modern, more airy and comfortable,
.. do not like to climb step ladder
.ook out of the windows. However,
zen one becomes lonesome below he
au always go on deck and whistle.
paternal grandparent built a house
and lived in it when not at sea)for
more than seventy years. There was
al one side of the living room long,
dark closet-used in the days of prodi-
gal fires for the storage of wood. When
its occupation had long been lost, a
Young member of the household plan
led to do away with the closet-mak-
lng an alcove of the space-and to cut
a window in the wall behind it; all of
which would be an undeniable improve
ment. But the old captain said "No!
lot while | livev'-and the neighbors
aughed But he died, the window was
mt. and the glores of a western sun
nay now brighten up the shadowy
Toom where he lived so long and con-
rentedly. There is perhaps something
IN heredity.
But we were on our way towards
Porto Rico, with favoring westerly
winds, and drawing off towards Ber-
mida. A blackness gathered up in the
uorthward and after a few hours of
threat a squall came out from that
quarter without half the fierceness tn at
il promised. That was followed by a
few hours of calm and then the wind
,.th nnct f0