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Updated: May 22, 2025
I was at first much troubled by the uneasy motion of the vessel, but speedily recovered my health, and since that hour have been no more plagued by sea-sickness.
Landing on the rock became a matter of extreme difficulty, and the short period of work was often curtailed to little more than an hour each tide. The rolling of the Pharos lightship, too, became so great that sea-sickness prevailed to a large extent among the landsmen. One good arose out of this evil, however.
Our every roll, whether to port or starboard, sent us gunwale under, so that it was only with the utmost difficulty we managed to retain our footing, while more than half my complement, on deck as well as below, suffered agonies of sea-sickness; yet they stuck to their work like heroes.
I kept myself close, however, as is still my constant practice on similar occasions, and waited the result with that apathy and indifference which violent sea-sickness is sure to produce. We shipped several seas, and once the vessel missing stays—which, to do it justice, it generally did at every third or fourth tack—we escaped almost by a miracle from being dashed upon the foreland.
Inexperience and sea-sickness were factors that found no place in Napoleon's calculations; but they compelled Villeneuve to return to Toulon to refit; and there Nelson closed on him once more. Meanwhile events were transpiring which seemed to add to Napoleon's naval strength and to the difficulties of his foes.
A steamer was just going out, so he sent a few lines." He handed it to her while he resumed his conversation with Mrs. French. Hanny devoured it with a thrill. A letter from across the ocean! They had a very pleasant journey, with only one storm worth mentioning. Mrs. Jasper, who had dreaded sea-sickness, had only a slight attack. Aunt Ellen was ill four days, and Daisy a whole week.
That night and the next day I suffered all the horrors of sea-sickness; and those who have known by experience how completely it prostrates the energies of mind and body, can imagine how I felt on leaving the boat at night. The kind-hearted captain set me on shore at a place where he left coal and lumber, a short distance from the village of Ogdensburg.
If he does, there comes on a loathing for it which is intense, so that the sight of the old battered manuscript is as bad as sea-sickness. A new lecture is just like any other new tool. We use it for a while with pleasure. Then it blisters our hands, and we hate to touch it. By-and-by our hands get callous, and then we have no longer any sensitiveness about it.
An optimistic life in which joyousness prevails, and the very woes and discomfitures are broadly comical to us who look on like some one who has sea-sickness, or a headache after a Greenwich banquet which are about the most tragic things he has dealt with.
Which reminds me that on this same Lusitania was the Viscomte D , Portuguese Ambassador or Minister to the United States of America, who confidentially told me that he at one time was the worst of sailors, but since adopting a certain belt which supports the diaphragm the idea of sea-sickness never even suggests itself to him.
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