Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: 28 SEA-SICKNESS. restless night is passed. The morning dawns, yet brings us not relief. What would we not give, if we could only stay that horrid motion, and indulge in the briefest quietude! Food, that on land would be delicious, is indignantly rejected. At length, tired of confinement in a narrow berth, we venture upon deck; but, no sooner have we attained the ship's side and looked out upon the bright expanse of waters, than a sickly, deadly feeling, created by those majestic waves, otherwise so much admired, comes upon us; a feeling that no pen can describe, horrible to the last degree. Our head aches violently ; our stomach, with all its contents, and these lend a bitter taste indeed to the tongue, appears to be crowding up into our throat and seeking an exit, which every motion of the vessel creates in us a longing desire to afford it, but without avail. We reel, the ship's unsteady motion unbalances us; we totter against and seize hold of any object that happens to be nearest; wish we had never been so foolish as to leave the firm earth, vow we never will again; look for sympathy in the face of some fellow- passenger, but find it not, for perchance he is in the same plight as ourselves; are about to give up in despair, and abandon ourselves to our sad fate, when EFFECTS OF THE SHIP'S MOTION. 29 one tremendous, but friendly lurch, produces a feeling that cannot be resisted, and with one mighty heave we dislodge our bilious accumulations, and our New York dinner of the previous day, together into the gulping waves, and thus find temporary relief. Now, for the first time, we begin to take an interest in what is transpiring around us. We actually, though suffering so much a short time before, find ourselves amused by the queer antics which that motion, which made us...