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Title: Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 34 December 1886 to May 1887
Year: 1887 (1880s)
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Publisher: New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers
Contributing Library: Brigham Young University-Idaho, David O. McKay Library
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a shipwhere there was no protection from therain, and in which, when she pitched, allthe contents of the vessel rolled in mis-cellaneous confusion from one end to theother ? It is bad enough as it is to findones self in a badly rolling steamer, shutup in a cabin with a portmanteau thatseems determined to have your life, anda hat-box that becomes a fiend, where water, with an augur and a coopful ofsacrificial chickens, several anchors, anda company of ancients of Gebal! Semiramis, the warrior wife of KingPul, sailed, w^e are accustomed to think,in great pomp. But what lady of moderndays would submit to the horrors of avoyage in which the only means ofchanging ones position in the ship wasby crawling on all fours ? Not all thesplendors of Sidonian looms, nor thecompany of all the apes and peacocks ofAfrica, could compensate for the wretch-edness of having no other shelter fromthe elements than awnings supported onthe heads of seasick slaves. It was all 686 HARPERS NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE.
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very well, no doubt, to have masts ofcedar from Lebanon, and oars of theoaks of Bashan, and benches for therowers of ivory brought out of the islesof Chittim, but when he was on thatlittle trip of his from Ezion-geber, hadSolomon any cure for seasickness ? Iventure to think not, for he confesses thatone of the very few things which he didnot understand was the way of a ship onthe sea. And it is hardly to be wondered at.For the way of sailing a ship in a Mediter-ranean squall is often beyond all under-standing. Yet I should very much in-deed have enjoyed just one trip in theearly days of navigation and commerce,and, merely as an experience, have gonea-voyaging with some ancients of Gebalto the land of Persia and of Lud and ofPhut. Our cargo would have been per-haps precious cloths for chariots, andbroidered work and fine linen, and gravenvessels, and goodly garments of Shinar,and we should have bartered them withthe men of Dedan for horns of ivory and ebony, with the merchants of Sheba

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