founderings

Updated: November 11, 2024

Other strangers who draw nigh to this Patagonia termination of our Continent, with their souls full of its shipwrecks and disasters top-sails cautiously reefed, and everything guardedly snug these strangers at first unexpectedly encountering a tolerably smooth sea, rashly conclude that the Cape, after all, is but a bugbear; they have been imposed upon by fables, and founderings and sinkings hereabouts are all cock-and-bull stories.

Herman Melville - White Jacket: or, the World on a Man-of-War