CHAPTER X. 



Yacliting in Bahama Waters. Sampson and Ms Triton. Testing a Sail- 

 boat. Searching Outside in a Good Wind for the Line Storm. Sampson's 

 Visit to New York. His Experiences and Impressions. Reliable Winds — 

 DeVghtful Vieics — Congenial Friends. The Log of the Pleasfiire Seekers. 

 Neidy Discovered Poets. The Gulf Weed. 



"The winds, full of souud — they go whispering by, 

 As if some immortal had stooped from the sky, 

 And breathed out a blessing— and flown!" — John Nkal. 



Foe safe and attractive boating facilities, Nassau is pre-emi- 

 nently distinguished. Its navigable waters combine more ele- 

 ments of varied beauty than we often see crowded into the same 

 number of square miles. In ordinary weather, when the bosom 

 of the ocean gently rises and falls in graceful undulations, the 

 eye searches in vain for some trace of the grand, the thrilling 

 and the sublime. The waters ripple with a silvery and soothing 

 melody. 



"The airs we feel, 

 Which 'round us steal, 

 Seem murmuring to the murmuring keel." 



- Clouds of satin and silver float in the soft air, the fitting dra- 

 pery of slowly moving but invisible gods of idleness and repose; 

 while upon the sea and its fairy isles, in unending variety, are 

 seen in great profusion, the evidences of a hand divine, that 



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