The innocents abroad; . man asked a great many questionsabout seasickness before we left, and wanted to know what itscharacteristics were, and how he was to tell when he had found out. We saw the usual sharks, blackfish, porpoises, &c., of course,and by and by large schools of Portuguese men-of-war wereadded to the regular list of sea wonders. Some of them werewhite and some of a brilliant carmine color. The nautilus isnothing but a transparent web of jelly, that spreads itself tocatch the wind, and has fleshy-looking strings a foot or two LAND, HOl 49 long dangling from it to keep it st
The innocents abroad; . man asked a great many questionsabout seasickness before we left, and wanted to know what itscharacteristics were, and how he was to tell when he had found out. We saw the usual sharks, blackfish, porpoises, &c., of course,and by and by large schools of Portuguese men-of-war wereadded to the regular list of sea wonders. Some of them werewhite and some of a brilliant carmine color. The nautilus isnothing but a transparent web of jelly, that spreads itself tocatch the wind, and has fleshy-looking strings a foot or two LAND, HOl 49 long dangling from it to keep it steady in the water. It is anaccomplished sailor, and has good sailor judgment. It reefs itssail when a storm threatens or the wind blows pretty hard, andfurls it entirely and goes down when a gale blows. Ordinarilyit keeps its sail wet and in good sailing order by turning overand dipping it in the water for a moment. Seamen say thenautilus is only found in these waters between the 35th and4:5th parallels of laistd, ho! At three oclock on the morning of the 21st of June, wewere awakened and notified that the Azores islands were insight. I said I did not take any interest in islands at threeoclock in the morning. But another persecutor came, andthen another and another, and finally believing that the generalenthusiasm would permit no one to slumber in peace, I got upand went sleepily on deck. It was five and a half oclock now,and a raw, blustering morning. The passengers were huddledabout the smoke-stacks and fortified behind ventilators, and allwere wrapped in wintry costumes, and looking sleepy and un^happy in the pitiless gale and the drenching spray. 4 60 floees.—fayal! T^e island in sight was Flores. It seemed only a mountainof mud standing up out of the dull mists of the sea. But aswe bore down upon it, the sun came out and made it a beau-tiful picture—a mass of green farms and meadows that swelledup to a height of fifteen hundred feet, and mingled its upperou
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