Day Before Yesterday Reminiscences of a Varied Life
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Putnam were travelling for their health; Mr. Noxon was the only well man among us. This did not seem a very cheerful send-off, but after our sea- sickness wore off we were all seasick I found the party pleasant enough. I have forgotten to mention another passenger, more cheerful than the others, a small black pig from Africa, who was a splendid sailor and trotted briskly about the deck, though how he maintained his equilibrium on his slippery little hoofs was more than I could under- stand. Cap...tain Howes was a regular down-east skipper, a Cape Codder, tall, spare, and athletic; his trousers were short and he wore habitually a black frock coat, carpet slippers, and ribbed woollen stockings; but he was a first- class sailor and would stand balancing himself on the deck, 104 TRAVELS AND A SHIPWRECK no matter how rough it was, directing a long Norwegian how to steer, ordering him to mind the wheel and keep the ship straight: "Keep your weather eye lifted, and steer so that you could hit the eye of a mosquito.
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