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and the million wrinkles of the sea under the 

 moonlight, when the jib-boom solemnly poked at 

 the low stars. . . . Rudyard Kipling. 



Pains of Early Sea Travel <:> <::> 



(From A First Voyai^e Round the World; Hakluyt Soc, 

 trans. ) 



VX/EDNESDAY, the twenty-eighth of Novem- 

 ber, 1520, we came forth out of the said 

 strait, and entered into the Pacific sea, where we 

 remained three months and twenty days without 

 taking in provisions or other refreshments, and we 

 only ate old biscuit reduced to powder, and full of 

 grubs, and stinking from the dirt which the rats 

 had made on it when eating the good biscuit, and 

 we drank water that was yellow and stinking. We 

 also ate the o.\ hides which were under the main- 

 yard, so that the yard should not break the rigging ; 

 they were very hard on account of the sun, rain, 

 and wind, and we left them for four or five days in 

 the sea, and then we put them a little on the 

 embers, and so ate them ; also the sawdust of 

 wood, and rats which cost half-a-crown each, 

 moreover enough of them were not to be got. 

 Besides the above-named evils, this misfortune 

 which I will mention was the worst, it was that the 

 upper and lower gums of most of our men grew so 

 iniirh that they could not eat, and in this way so 



