26 VOYAGE INTO 



CHAPTER II. 



Ofthe^e^. 



The waves begin to raise themselves at first from a small 

 breeze of wind, and by the increase and continuance of tlie 

 breeze they grow longer, higher, and bigger. 



The sea is not immediately made rough in the beginning 

 of high winds, but the waves swell by degrees and slowly, 

 until they come to be as bigg as mountains ; then they ex- 

 pand and break themselves, and fall over with dashing. 



Then the following wave from behind raiseth it again with 

 much curled and foaming scum, neatly spotted with the white 

 foam, looking like marble. This breaking and foaming of 

 the waves is successively repeated. 



So the swelling waves continually follow one another, 

 moving before the wind with a quick motion ; but when 

 these waves are short, they dash over the ship and break 

 much, so that the ship is hardly able to live. 



In stormy weather little waves curl upon the top of the 

 great ones, and lesser again upon them. 



The ships do not feel these smaller waves, but only the 

 great ones, that are called sea-mountains, which heave and 

 mount the ship with them, but nevertheless she always keeps 

 her straight way through these unpathed waves, which is 

 wonderful to behold. 



In a hard storm the froth of the sea drives like dust, and 

 looked as when the wind driveth the snow along upon the 

 ice, or as the dust of the earth does in dry weather, and you 

 see the sea everywhere to look like curled ice, that when it 

 is freezing is hindred from it by the wind, all covered with 

 a white foam, and one wave blows over th<3 precedent, with 



