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Updated: May 17, 2025
"You'll surely be blown overboard if you stay on deck. That Jilla-Jilly wind is the most terrible wind you ever heard of! We'll soon strike it! There, that sounds like it now! Don't you feel as if you were being lifted up?" The nervous fears of Mr. Tarbill made him anticipate almost any sensation that was vividly described to him.
He was in such a state of mind that he would have believed almost anything he heard. "Yes! Yes!" he exclaimed. "I feel it coming! Oh, dear! What shall I do?" "Go below quickly!" yelled Bob, for that was the object he had in mind in inventing the Jilla-Jilly wind for the occasion. "I will! I'll go at once!"
"Do you mean to tell us anything else is going to happen?" "Something surely is, Mr. Tarbill," said Bob, with an air of great earnestness, moving closer to the man, so as to get away from the driving rain, as Mr. Tarbill stood under shelter. "What is coming? Do tell me. I am so very nervous." "The Jilla-Jilly wind! We'll be in the midst of it soon. You'd better look out!" "The Jilla-Jilly wind?
Is the ship going up or down?" asked the nervous passenger. "Is what blowing?" "The Jilla-Jilly wind!" "The Jilla-Jilly wind?" repeated the mate in wonder, thinking Mr. Tarbill might be out of his head. "Yes, Bob told me about it. It blows up and down and is liable to take one up Into the clouds or down into the ocean." "What nonsense! Look here, Mr. Tarbill, that was one of Bob's jokes.
Tar-bill, with every evidence of terror, had left the deck, Bob crept cautiously forward to peer ahead into the wild waste of waves that threatened to overwhelm the Eagle. "If it isn't a Jilla-Jilly wind, it's almost as bad," thought our hero. If he had known more about the ocean and its terrors he would have been more frightened than he was.
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