Starboard and port: the "Nettie" along shore (1876)
Hepworth, George H. (George Hughes), 1833-1902 · New York : Harper & brothers · leaf 79
th the tide. By this time, however,we had learned to take matters very philosophically,and not chafe at any fate which might beset us. Aman who has not become used to the freaks of theocean, and who can not take its whims and capricesas so many jokes to be laughed at, feels like a chainedlion when… … Among the Rocks in a Fog, 73 and cupolas of the neighboring city which invites youto pleasures you can not enjoy. If it has ever been your misfortune to lie down in avery narrow berth in a steamboat, amid pitchy and tan-gible darkness, and to allow your imagination to workuntil you felt as though…