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Here the feeling of seasickness, which the excitement of the scene had kept off, increased rapidly; and they were glad to slip off their upper clothes, and to throw themselves upon their berths before the paroxysm of sickness came on.
This time Pavel Ivanich coughed and answered irritably: "You spoke just now of a ship colliding with a large fish, and now you talk of the wind breaking loose.... Is the wind a dog to break loose?" "That's what people say." "Then people are as ignorant as you.... But what do they not say? You should keep a head on your shoulders and think. Silly idiot!" Pavel Ivanich was subject to seasickness.
He begins with a few remarks on seasickness in the common pig; some notes on the Pont Neuf at Paris follow, and a theory of why tyrants are detested by men whom they have obliged; a glance at Coaches is then given, next a study of Montezuma's gardens, presently a brief account of the Spanish cruelties in Mexico and Peru, last retombons a nos coches he tells a tale of the Inca, and the devotion of his Guard: Another for Hector!
Soon, too, he ran her inside the protecting spot of land of which Dolly had spoken to Bessie, and they were in such smooth water that, even had any of them had any tendency toward seasickness, there would have been no excuse for it. In half an hour he stopped the engine, and cast his anchor overboard. He wore no shoes and stockings, and now, rolling up his trousers, he jumped overboard.
The crowded deck was speedily deserted on account of seasickness. It seemed strange that nearly every one afflicted should be more or less ashamed. Next morning a strong wind was blowing, and the sea was gray and white, with long breaking waves, across which the Dakota was racing half-buried in spray. Very few of the passengers were on deck to enjoy the wild scenery.
The monotony of our lives was relieved night before last, and our seasickness aggravated, by a severe gale of wind from the north-west, which compelled us to lie to for twenty hours under one close-reefed maintopsail. The storm began late in the afternoon, and by nine o'clock the wind was at its height and the sea rapidly rising.
Chalk shook his head, and his friend, selecting one from his case, lit it with a fusee that poisoned the atmosphere. "None of us seem to be sea-sick," he remarked. "Sea-sickness, sir," said Captain Brisket "seasickness is mostly imagination. People think they're going to be bad, and they are. But there's one certain cure for it." "Cure?" said Mr. Chalk, turning a glazing eye upon him.
I did not disgrace myself, however, and a few days cured me, as a week on the water often cures seasickness. There was a sober-faced boy of minute dimensions in the house, who began to make some advances to me, and who, in spite of all the conditions surrounding him, turned out, on better acquaintance, to be one of the most amusing, free-spoken, mocking little imps I ever met in my life.
He and Staniford were friends in their way, and had talked together before this. "Do you mean seasickness? Why?" Staniford looked up at the mate's face. "Well, we're going to get it, I guess, before long. We shall soon be off the Spanish coast. We've had a great run so far." "If it comes we must stand it. But I make it a rule never to be seasick beforehand."
The monotonous thud of the engine, the tramping of feet overhead, the creaking and groaning of the vessel, the squalling babies, the fussy mothers, the dreadful people who could not travel from Southampton to Jersey on a calm summer night without exhibiting all the horrors of seasickness.
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