Starboard and port: the "Nettie" along shore (1876)
Hepworth, George H. (George Hughes), 1833-1902 · New York : Harper & brothers · leaf 94
a huge boulder about fifteen or twentyfeet square, which the fog had magnified. It was injust the position to save us. But for it we shouldhave gone plump on the beach. As it was, we wereso near that you could almost lower yourself from theend of the jibboom to the land. It was on the wholeabout as… … CHAPTER V. TROUT AND MOSQUITOES. Among the plagues on earth which God has sent,Of lighter torment, is the plague of flies.Where wild America in vastness lies,There diverse hordes the swamps and woods infest;Banded or singly, there make man their prize. Bishop of Quebec. EFORE we started from…
