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Mie Sep 2 09:06:44 CEST 2009

S and cross-currents that knocked his frail ships about and almost
swamped them. Anchors and gear were lost, the sails were torn out of the
bolt-ropes, timbers were strained; and for six weeks this state of
affairs went on to an accompaniment of thunder and lightning which added
to the terror and discomfort of the mariners. This was in August and the
first half of September--six weeks of the worst weather that Columbus
had ever experienced. It was the more unfortunate that his illness made
it impossible for him to get actively about the ship; and he had to have
a small cabin or tent rigged up on deck, in which he could lie and
direct the navigation. It is bad enough to be as ill as he was in a
comfortable bed ashore; it is a thousand times worse amid the
discomforts of a small boat at sea; but what must it have been thus to
have one's sick-bed on the deck of a cockle-shell which was being
buffeted and smashed in unknown seas, and to have to think and act not
for oneself alone but for the whole of a suffering little fleet! No
wonder the
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