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tempers that we had fuiFered, had been only 

 fqualls, for, in the rnidft of the moft tremen- 

 dous gales^ his reply had always been ''''Squally^ 

 u Huh fqiially, gentlemen Are we making 

 any way, fteward ?*' " Oh yes ^ fine wind^ quite 

 fr ee, going large ^ make fix orfeven knots'' " But 

 fiirely we have too much of this good wand, 

 fteward V " Ob nofimc wind as can blow ^gen- 

 tlemen — but a link fqually — -rather fqu ally T 



The Ihlp's company often reap muGk 

 amufemeat from theUttle accidents— the ridicu- 

 ioi2S tumbles — and the ftrange poftures which 

 the paffengers are thrown into by the unfteady 

 motion of the vefiel : indeed we now fee! fo 

 little alarm during a gale, that w^e fometimes 

 difregard its perils, and join in their fmiles 

 and jokes at the ludicrous occurrences which 

 happen among ourfelves. Hogarth might 

 have feafted upon them. In the confufion of 

 motions, caufed by the heavy feas, if we at- 

 tempt to walk, we fetch way^ and are tofled 

 to the fartheft fide of the cabin, in all the odd 

 and uncommon figures that can be imagined: 

 and, often, before we can regain our legs, 

 the fiiip yields to another wave, and we are 



