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'extraordinary what a large percentage of passengers 

 on board most of the first-rate steamer lines, is now- 

 a-days during the cold season made up of persons 

 taking a tour round the world, or going out and home 

 again as a change for the benefit of their health. 



There is however just one drawback to the enjoy- 

 ment of sea-life, which acts as a deterrent to many 

 timid persons that is of course "Sea-sickness." We 

 do not propose at present to discuss this question in 

 its medical or scientific aspects. We shall therefore 

 merely say that long experience has taught us to regard 

 it as to a great degree mental. We mean by that 

 people come aboard certain that they are going to be 

 sick and they are so. This is not a matter, however, 

 in which it is of any use to " argue the question, " as 

 in some cases the least little motion seems to upset 

 individuals; and we may just say that as a youngster 

 no one has probably ever suffered more severely than 

 we have: and yet for more than thirty years past, in 

 the heaviest weather and under all sorts of trying 

 circumstances, we have never once been sea-sick 

 we have " grown out of it " in fact. 



A man much accustomed to the sea really ceases 

 to feel or think of the motion of the ship, unless when 

 it is of a very decided character; and we have fre- 

 quently known our attention to be called to the fact 

 that there was increased motion, by the lugubrious 

 remark of a fellow-traveller " Oh, the ship is beginning 

 to roll again! Do you think it is going to be rough?" 

 As a rule however we have generally observed that 

 after three or four days, most of the people find their 

 sea legs, and cease to be affected, unless the weather 

 is really bad. But it is often quite deplorable at the 



