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It must not be forgotten that these voyages in the tender were the particular pleasure and reward of his existence; that he had in him a reserve of romance which carried him delightedly over these hardships and perils; that to him it was 'great gain' to be eight nights and seven days in the savage bay of Levenswick to read a book in the much agitated cabin to go on deck and hear the gale scream in his ears, and see the landscape dark with rain and the ship plunge at her two anchors and to turn in at night and wake again at morning, in his narrow berth, to the glamorous and continued voices of the gale.
On the morrow, Saturday, 11th, the weather appeared to moderate, and they put to sea, only to be driven by evening into Levenswick. There they lay, "rolling much," with both anchors ahead and the square yard on deck, till the morning of Saturday, 18th. Saturday and Sunday they were plying to the southward with a "strong breeze and a heavy sea," and on Sunday evening anchored in Otterswick.
It must not be forgotten that these voyages in the tender were the particular pleasure and reward of his existence; that he had in him a reserve of romance which carried him delightedly over these hardships and perils; that to him it was "great gain" to be eight nights and seven days in the savage bay of Levenswick to read a book in the much agitated cabin to go on deck and hear the gale scream in his ears, and see the landscape dark with rain, and the ship plunge at her two anchors and to turn in at night and wake again at morning, in his narrow berth, to the clamorous and continued voices of the gale.
On Friday, September 10th, 1830, the Regent lying in Lerwick Bay, we have this entry: 'The gale increases, with continued rain. On the morrow, Saturday, 11th, the weather appeared to moderate, and they put to sea, only to be driven by evening into Levenswick. There they lay, 'rolling much, with both anchors ahead and the square yard on deck, till the morning of Saturday, 18th.
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