CHAPTER X. 
Yachting in Bahama Waters. Sampson and his 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— 
Delightful Views—Congenial Friends. The Log of the Pleasure Seekers. 
Newly Discovered Poets, The Gulf Weed. 
“The winds, full of sound—they go whispering by, 
Asif some immortal had stooped from the sky, 
And breathed out a blessing—~and flown!”—JoHN Neat. 
For 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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