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hungry man. Miraculous to say, I am unafflicted, 

 except by extreme hunger, and begin to think that 

 I am proof against all that Neptune can do unto 

 me. The ship's corporal was affected either by the 

 motion or by new scenes, and divers midshipmen 

 became of a pale green and longed for their 

 mammas ; likewise Dragon, the dog, was solemnly 

 sick on the quarter-deck in the very fairway of the 

 captain's walk ; and yet that dog was not seized up 

 and given ten dozen, so great was the love they bore 

 him ; the ship's company turned their awe-struck 

 faces the other way, and would not see ! This 

 rolling is a thing to study — indeed it must be 

 studied. The great art is so to manage that you 

 alvays walk up hill, but this is extremely difficult ; 

 arxi generally you see the captain (who is not, by- 

 tha-bye, our commander) and his officers perform 

 hclf their walk across the poop with a lofty high- 

 stepping action which, if it does not put one in mind 

 of the treadmill, is very grand, and half at a hasty, 

 scuttling run till they are brought up all standing 

 against the hammock-nettings, which is very mean ; 

 but, Lord ! to see how at one moment you look 

 upon a mountain of deal planks close to your nose, 

 and the next straight down into the green sea ! 



It is grand sitting round the side of the stern 

 gallery, looking up at the two hundred feet of mast 

 and sail towering above one, lurching over as the 

 great roller passes under the ship till the yards 

 nearly dip into the water, and then rising with a 



