Fishes and fishing. Artificial breeding of fish, anatomy of their senses, their loves, passions, and intellects by Wright William 1773-1860

Author:Wright, William, 1773-1860
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: Fishing, Fishes, Fish-culture
Publisher: London, T.C. Newby
Published: 1858-03-25T05:00:00+00:00

when pain supervenes. My situation in the trunk was of a nature most painful both to mind and body. First, as the brig was swinging round, in order to go out of harbour the proper way, those in charge of the warp did not ease it so soon as they ought to have done, consequently her stern caught the side of the pier, and tore away some of her taffrail, which gave the vessel a little shake; but to me, who was lyiug confined close to the spot, it appeared something of considerable importance, and, joined with the Babel-like confusion of voices constantly attendant upon the departure of a vessel of a commercial description out of a French port, made the first period of my position not enviable. There were originally two locks to the trunk (my temporary domicile); the one nearest my head I took off, and cut the inner lining away, so that I had all the air that could enter through that orifice. Fancy the situation I was placed in, my knees drawn up as high as possible, the lid forcibly pressing against them, my neck bent, and my chin consequently pressed towards my chest, in a close cabin, in the middle of the hottest of all hot days in the month of July. I once felt an inclination to sleep, but I re solved not to give way to it; independently of all this, the fear of any accidental cause preventing the gentleman who had the key from getting on board, and the whole chain of natural mental anxieties, I was

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