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THE WATEKS. 



was all they had to depend upon for onward progress. In 

 those days a calm which would sometimes last for weeks toge- 

 ther was to them most fearful, for it was often a source of 



GKEAI WAVES AX SEA. 



great distress and privation, especially if short of provisions ; 

 the sea would then look like a great pool of stagnant water 

 covered on the surface with sea-weed and animalculae, and 



DEAD CALM. 



fearful it must have been when food was failing, and no hope 

 of progressing but the springing-up of a wind. But, in 



