. A summer voyage on the river Saône. With a hundred and forty-eight illustrations. nd furnished, with its Japanese matting on the oak floor, itslittle iron bedstead and table, its single camp chair, and itsfresh-looking ewer and basin,1* he remarked that in all hisexperience he had never encamped so comfortably before. Theother tent, which is reserved for the American artist, is exactlylike the Captains, but smaller. 1 used this tent myself duringthe night, and a very wild night it was. We had a great thunderstorm, with violent gusts of wind and adeluge of rain. In the midst of this, about tw
. A summer voyage on the river Saône. With a hundred and forty-eight illustrations. nd furnished, with its Japanese matting on the oak floor, itslittle iron bedstead and table, its single camp chair, and itsfresh-looking ewer and basin,1* he remarked that in all hisexperience he had never encamped so comfortably before. Theother tent, which is reserved for the American artist, is exactlylike the Captains, but smaller. 1 used this tent myself duringthe night, and a very wild night it was. We had a great thunderstorm, with violent gusts of wind and adeluge of rain. In the midst of this, about two oclock in the morn-ing, it suddenly occurred to my recollection that the boxes con-taining my books were outside in the galley, and that as they werewooden boxes, and had not tin covers, the rain would probablyget in. There is no material thing that I care for with as much These arc made of paper and are quite satisfactory, being light and unbreakable11 as perfectly watertight. The ewers are of a rational cone-like shape, not easyto upset, and they hold a good supply of The Tents from La Coin- Fennell: A Summer Voyage. 2 ;> solicitude as my books, so I immediately got up and went tohouse them in the saloon. Then it successively occurred to methat a number of other things were out in the rain, and I foundmuch occupation in sheltering them, so the night was a verydisturbed night for me, and the less agreeable that we have nocompanion ladders yet to go up and down, and there is nocommunication between the parts of the boat except by walkingalong the gunwale. As the wood became slippery from therain I was likely enough to get a fall, and could not helplaughing by myself in the midst of the lightning and rainat this original way of passing the night. Would you believethat I took a pleasure in it ? For one thing, I like to hear rainpattering heavily into water, and it is grand to see a darklandscape suddenly illuminated by lightning. Besides, a nightof this kind recalls
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