Brooklyn Museum Quarterly . st infm-iating to a periscopiceye. Amsterdam, proclaimed a fourth steamer, and Dan-mark another. How strange it seemed that on this dreamy,peaceful sea one ship should be blotched like a patch-quilt,and should make a zig-zag track, with covered lights, alongthe broad highways of the Atlantic, while another decked hersides in exaggerated and artificial brilliancy, and put hertrust perforce in a neutral flag and name! And how manyfair craft of both the first and the second classes have failedeither to elude or to placate the inscrutable foes of all whogo down to the s
Brooklyn Museum Quarterly . st infm-iating to a periscopiceye. Amsterdam, proclaimed a fourth steamer, and Dan-mark another. How strange it seemed that on this dreamy,peaceful sea one ship should be blotched like a patch-quilt,and should make a zig-zag track, with covered lights, alongthe broad highways of the Atlantic, while another decked hersides in exaggerated and artificial brilliancy, and put hertrust perforce in a neutral flag and name! And how manyfair craft of both the first and the second classes have failedeither to elude or to placate the inscrutable foes of all whogo down to the sea in ships. This auspicious day was the end of fair weather off the port of New York,and for the remain-der of our cruise, ifsuch it may be called,the Martin rolled onher beam-ends a n ds t u c k her dolphin-striker into combersraised b y northerlywinds. But the do-ries, which a r e theonly unsinkableships, w e n t abouttheir business as usu-al, and the l)ait sup-plv began to run lowafter five days fish-ing. One breezv af-. ?•i^^ :.•*!«»
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