sea-fiend

Updated: July 1, 2025

The sick passengers, to a man, bore him an animosity, owing to his ostentatiously rude health and iron nerves, which is, of all exhibitions, the most oppressive to a prostrate victim of the sea-fiend. The third evening, an altercation became audible on the companion-ladder, as if some ship's officer were keeping back somebody else who was determined to come below.

Elizabeth Hely Walshe - Cedar Creek: From the Shanty to the Settlement