. Six and one abroad. ing furies of the Titans of water, colored a deep indigo with- the venomof their own madness, rose and clashed and fell, and over theplaces where the duels were fought, the residue of their wrathwas resolved into seething troughs of foam. Farther out, thescene was like unto the rise and fall of mountains, ten thousandominous cones rising high out of the maddened main, theircrests exploding in a fury of foam, and dying as others rose in Six and One Abroad their turbulent graves. While, throughout the fierce conflictour noble vessel maintained her course seren
. Six and one abroad. ing furies of the Titans of water, colored a deep indigo with- the venomof their own madness, rose and clashed and fell, and over theplaces where the duels were fought, the residue of their wrathwas resolved into seething troughs of foam. Farther out, thescene was like unto the rise and fall of mountains, ten thousandominous cones rising high out of the maddened main, theircrests exploding in a fury of foam, and dying as others rose in Six and One Abroad their turbulent graves. While, throughout the fierce conflictour noble vessel maintained her course serenely, trundled some-times in the cradle of waves as high as her lofty masts, coastingsometimes the crystal declivities or plunging the lance of herbow into the vitals of a billow—not a halt in the long frettedfurrow she was cutting from America to the African coast, anddrawing majestically in her wake a train of blue overlaid withfantastic laces of foam. The sea can be just as. well-behaved as it can be obstreperous;. THREE OF OUR PARTY—THE CONNOISSEUR WITH HAND ONHAND RAIL. when it is good it is very, very good, and when it is bad, it ishorrid. It has its moods like a great uneasy thing of life, attimes ugly and dangerous, at times conspiring with sun andatmospheric conditions toward a sublime climax of beauty. Infair weather, in that delightful interim between the breakingof dawn and sunrise, before the mermaid—the sea girls forwhom, we looked and looked and never so much as got a glimpseof one—have tinted their tresses in the colors of the new day The Sea and Its Moods and are combing them into exquisite curls and lustrous undula-tions; when the stars, one by one, put out their lights, and thesky begins to blush at the coming of its. chief, the gray of thedawn changing imperceptibly to violet, and quickly thence intopurple, and to a radiant orange, and to crimson, and crimsoninto gold, which is the livery of the rising orb; at such a time—the very beginning of the d
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