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friends, and I leaned my head on the hulwarks, 

 and felt as if I knew what desolation and heart-sick- 

 ness were for the first time. This state of affairs 

 could not last long, so I rallied and attempted to look 

 brave and careless ; but the efifort was vain, for if any 

 person had taken the trouble to look at my lugubrious 

 countenance, they could have seen, that under au 

 attempted careless exterior I carried an aching breast ; 

 but all hands were too fully occupied by their per- 

 sonal feelings to notice me, and so it passed unre- 

 marked. 



Towards evening, that most annoying and dis- 

 tressing of all petty maladies — viz., sea-sickness, 

 made its appearance amongst our green hands ; 

 having experienced it before, I escaped with but 

 little annoyance ; not so with some other poor fellows, 

 and amongst those I noticed the person I mentioned 

 before, who claimed so intimate an acquaintance 

 with the sea, utterly prostrated ; a few hours previous 

 he was the blithest of the party, and was singing 

 with great zest — 



"A life on the ocean ■wave, 

 And a home on the rolling deep." 



but now, alas ! he was tuneless, and almost breathless ; 

 but I imagined that had he been able to sing, the 



to3 



burden of his lay would have been — 



'• The sea, the sea, the horrid sea." 



This individual, from a circumstance which I have 

 before alluded to, had received the appellation of 

 Ivedge Anchor, or Cage Anchor, or it was sometimes 

 abbreviated to Cage ; and as he will figure repeatedly 



