. Isles in summer seas : (beautiful Bermuda). CHAPTER I ^N the southern rim of the far horizon,out of a faint shimmering mist,loomed St. Davids Head, an October sky of resplen-dent blue, the bold promontory-took definite shape and coloring. A sea,shading from deep indigo to lighter hues, ereit shone to leeward in dancing green, slippedlazily astern, as the ships bows clove the brine_,fathoms below. We were afloat on a scarcelyruffled expanse of placid water. The long Atlan-tic roll heavedluider us withhardly a per-ceptible com-. Isles in Summer Seas motion. Scores of lithe-bodied
. Isles in summer seas : (beautiful Bermuda). CHAPTER I ^N the southern rim of the far horizon,out of a faint shimmering mist,loomed St. Davids Head, an October sky of resplen-dent blue, the bold promontory-took definite shape and coloring. A sea,shading from deep indigo to lighter hues, ereit shone to leeward in dancing green, slippedlazily astern, as the ships bows clove the brine_,fathoms below. We were afloat on a scarcelyruffled expanse of placid water. The long Atlan-tic roll heavedluider us withhardly a per-ceptible com-. Isles in Summer Seas motion. Scores of lithe-bodied flying fish, dis-turbed from amphibious pleasures by the swellingprogress of oiir way, flitted in scared haste to portand starboard. Now and then beautifiil sea ane-monae, visible in the throbbing green beneath, foldedfikny tentacles and sank in hurried affright. Aboveus, an azure sky, flecked with fleecy, floating clouds,looked down; while overhead the seagulls wingedto dizzy heights in a steady, semi-tropic breeze. Our progress was as near a glide as could beimagined. It was difficult to conceive that we hadcarried a wUd norcaster out of New York to thesouthern edge of the Gulf Stream. So quickly andeasily were we possessed by the charm and splen-dor of this transition into enchanted atmosphere;the glowing wonders of our luminous wake and theglimpse of land over our bows, that the groaningtravail of the early night seemed but the figmentof a hardly remembered dream. It was our first sight of those remote isles off Beautiful Bermuda
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