A First Year In Canterbury Settlement By Samuel Butler


















































































































 -   One
great amusement I have forgotten to mention - that is, shuffle-board, a
game which consists in sending some round - Page 23
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One Great Amusement I Have Forgotten To Mention - That Is, Shuffle-Board, A Game Which Consists In Sending Some Round Wooden Platters Along The Deck Into Squares Chalked And Numbered From One To Ten.

This game will really keep one quite hot in the coldest weather if played with spirit.

During the month that has elapsed since writing the last sentence, we have had strong gales and long, tedious calms. On one of these occasions the captain lowered a boat, and a lot of us scrambled over the ship's side and got in, taking it in turns to row. The first thing that surprised us was the very much warmer temperature of the sea-level than that on deck. The change was astonishing. I have suffered from a severe cold ever since my return to the ship. On deck it was cold, thermometer 46 degrees; on the sea-level it was deliciously warm. The next thing that surprised us was the way in which the ship was pitching, though it appeared a dead calm. Up she rose and down she fell upon a great hummocky swell which came lazily up from the S.W., making our horizon from the boat all uneven. On deck we had thought it a very slight swell; in the boat we perceived what a heavy, humpy, ungainly heap of waters kept rising and sinking all round us, sometimes blocking out the whole ship, save the top of the main royal, in the strangest way in the world.

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