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Pencillings From The Sketch-Book Of A Madras Officer.
PENCILLINGS FBOM THE SKETCH-BOOK OF A MADEAS OFFICER .
A PASSAGE KOTJKD THE CAPE IK 1826 . Heigh , my hearts ; cheerly , cheerly , my hearts ; yare , yare , take in the topsail ; tend to the master ' s whistle . —Tempest . Having kept notes of those days of yore , inclusive of what struck me as amusing 02 ? . the voyage out , long before the wonders of steam had annihilated time and space in reaching our eastern possessions , I proceed to present the same in a condensed form , and without laying too heavy a tax on the patience of my reader .
CHAPTER II .
BY AN IOANTRYM . M .
"Who that has ever sailed from Newhaven , does not feel most forcibly the truthfulness of Lord Byron ' s lines respecting the chalk cliffs of Albion : — recollect Great Britain ' s coasts look white , And almost every other country ' s blue : As gazing on them mystified by distance , We enter on our nautical existence /'
Leaving Portsmouth , however , we cannot witness this peculiarity so distinctly . Soon did we lose sight of her harbour and shipping , being favoured with brisk gales . " The ship got under weigh , The wind was fair , the water passing rough . "
"With an indefinable , and yet strong sensation of regret at quitting our birthland , mingled with a joyous lightness of heart at entering an honourable profession , in which , I believe , all of us youngsters participated , — I stood , and gazing from the stern ,
Beheld my native land receding far . At night we passed the Lizard point , in view of the Eddystone ' s brilliant light . Careering onwards , " o'er the glad waters of the dark blue sea , " by the 25 th of November we were on the confines of Biscay ' s stormy bay , where , by way of a remembrance , we got a
trifling squall , occasioning the loss of our jibboom . No steamers at that period ran their uniform course on the main , no regular overland transit was there to shorten the distance between the mother country and our Indian possessions ; a long and dreary voyage , as it often was , might in prospect be reckoned on , affording
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Pencillings From The Sketch-Book Of A Madras Officer.
PENCILLINGS FBOM THE SKETCH-BOOK OF A MADEAS OFFICER .
A PASSAGE KOTJKD THE CAPE IK 1826 . Heigh , my hearts ; cheerly , cheerly , my hearts ; yare , yare , take in the topsail ; tend to the master ' s whistle . —Tempest . Having kept notes of those days of yore , inclusive of what struck me as amusing 02 ? . the voyage out , long before the wonders of steam had annihilated time and space in reaching our eastern possessions , I proceed to present the same in a condensed form , and without laying too heavy a tax on the patience of my reader .
CHAPTER II .
BY AN IOANTRYM . M .
"Who that has ever sailed from Newhaven , does not feel most forcibly the truthfulness of Lord Byron ' s lines respecting the chalk cliffs of Albion : — recollect Great Britain ' s coasts look white , And almost every other country ' s blue : As gazing on them mystified by distance , We enter on our nautical existence /'
Leaving Portsmouth , however , we cannot witness this peculiarity so distinctly . Soon did we lose sight of her harbour and shipping , being favoured with brisk gales . " The ship got under weigh , The wind was fair , the water passing rough . "
"With an indefinable , and yet strong sensation of regret at quitting our birthland , mingled with a joyous lightness of heart at entering an honourable profession , in which , I believe , all of us youngsters participated , — I stood , and gazing from the stern ,
Beheld my native land receding far . At night we passed the Lizard point , in view of the Eddystone ' s brilliant light . Careering onwards , " o'er the glad waters of the dark blue sea , " by the 25 th of November we were on the confines of Biscay ' s stormy bay , where , by way of a remembrance , we got a
trifling squall , occasioning the loss of our jibboom . No steamers at that period ran their uniform course on the main , no regular overland transit was there to shorten the distance between the mother country and our Indian possessions ; a long and dreary voyage , as it often was , might in prospect be reckoned on , affording