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mine, which I undertook with fear and trembling, 

 under the idea that it would prove not a little 

 beneficial to my health, with the exception of 

 the first few hours, I can recall nothing that was 

 not pleasant. We coasted so near the shore for 

 a large proportion of the voyage, that when off 

 Yarmouth I could distinguish well-nigh the 

 colour of the ladies' dresses, though I could not 

 hear their voices. In fact so near were we at 

 times to the shore, that I thought the captain a 

 wee bit rash in not keeping farther off. On the 

 second day did a very thick mist most unex- 

 pectedly spring up, as though by magic, just 

 ahead of us ; at the very spot too where I had 

 particularly noticed before a kind of promontory 

 which extended some way into the sea. The 

 captain joined me at the time, and on my 

 remarking to him that it struck me if we did 

 not go more to the right, we might come to 

 grief, he smiled and said, that I had mistaken 

 the mist for dry land. Very soon afterwards, 

 however, a sudden commotion seemed to bestir 



