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Show SAILOR TELLS OF HARDSHIPS. Have Good Reason to Dread "Rounding "Round-ing the Horn." "Sailing ship life Is tho hardest of all," said tho first ofllcer of a liner. "I lived on sailing ships till two years ij ago. "Once wo wero 15C days in sailing from Liverpool to 'Frisco. It took eight weeks to round tho Horn eight weeks of snow and hall and Icy winds. Night after night wo sailors, turning In, took off our soaking underclothes, wrung tho water out of them, and then slept with them under our pillows, pil-lows, so that, when we camo to put them on In the morning, they would bo warm. "Sometimes wo would spend flvo hours aloft try'ng to reef ono sail a sail frozen so stiff, so boardlike, v" that it would be Impossible to make -gi I a wrinkle In It. i "Handling these wet and frozen i sails and rope", our hands split. These cracks, which would not heal, are called 'sea cuts.' They are a sailor's bane." Los Angeles Times. |