| Show t 1 SUF SUFFER FER R WHIG Many People Really In Agony Trip Made on Comparatively Cairn Calm Waters Sir Gl George rge Trevelyan tells of cross ing log the English channel once In n bad weather and find that during the whole passage his companion stood on deck I slowly reciting poetry with emphasis J 1 v and gesticulation Ills His companion companIonI I had hart explained that this singular practice tice hail had been heen recommended to him Ma as ns asa a o against seasickness When hen the they reached France he told Tre that he hc had nearly got to the end of his English poetry nn end and If Jr the crossing had been lon longer el h he lie would have hae had lied to begin on other lung languages Darwin suffered terribly from seasick seasickness ness during the whole of ot his curl early voyage on the Beagle Deagle and never ne recovered from the evil eUl et effects l of this experience Ills ba bad health during dining J the rest fEst of his life has bus been attributed to the shocks thus caused to his con con- 1 Another distinguished victim of seasickness seasickness seasickness sea sea- sickness was General Gordon During Dula Dur Dul DurIng ing n a voyage to Capetown from Mauritius Mau dUus In 1832 1882 he described his suffer sufferIng J Ing and misery n as far Cor more inure severe ere than he had ever eer during his lifetime experienced either fit at home or abroad Very often he repeated his L determination to go on shore at the very first port the vessel vessel reached reached and andone andone one morning after a n sleepless night of ot sickness he called the captain to the side of ot his berth and offered him 50 0 If It he would make for land with all possible speed r |
