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We were admitted as travellers, and the shutters of the shop were closed behind us, letting in only a glimmer of grey light, and the tumult of the storm. Towards evening it cleared a little and we came home in a calmer sea, but with a dead head-wind that gave the rowers all they could do to make the passage. On calm days I often go out fishing with Michael.
We beat backwards and forwards against the head-wind, but all to no purpose out of the Gut we could not get without a leading-wind, and so we had to anchor off the Barbary coast; there we got supplies. "At last, on the 5th of May, an easterly breeze sprung up, and away we went, with a flowing sheet, through the Straits.
But, how are we getting on, captain," he added, to change the subject, "the ship seems to be slipping along through the water?" "Pretty well, but not so well as I could wish. We've got an obstinate head-wind against us, and cannot quite lay on our proper course; so I don't think we'll be able to log much of a run when we take the sun at noon.
"I was just bewailin' you, I was so disappointed, an' I kep' myself awake a good piece o' the night scoldin' poor William. I watched for the boat till I was ready to shed tears yisterday, and when 'twas comin' dark I kep' making errands out to the gate an' down the road to see if you wa'n't in the doldrums somewhere down the bay." "There was a head-wind, as you know," said Mrs.
The sailors were afraid of the constant east wind, and when at length it veered round for a time, Columbus wrote in his journal: "This head-wind was very welcome, for my men were mightily afraid that winds never blew in these seas which would take them back to Spain."
Four miles below, the river narrows and presents a grand view of the north entrance of the Highlands, with the Storm King Mountain rising fully one thousand five hundred feet above the tide. Now the Narrows above West Point were entered and the current against a head-wind made the passage unusually exciting.
So, unless there was an important reason why we should reach port, we always made a head-wind of anything stronger than a light breeze, and followed the weather round the compass until it was fair for our destination. As soon as we left Mentone Mr. Pulitzer began the process of education which was designed to fit me for his service.
During the following days, the 13th, 14th, and 15th of June, the barometer slowly fell, without an attempt to rise in the slightest degree, and the weather became variable, hovering between rain and wind or storm. The breeze strengthened considerably, and changed to south-westerly. It was a head-wind for the Dream, and the waves had now increased enormously, and lifted her forward.
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