SEA-SICKNESS.
Many will remember the terrible description of Mr. Aaron Bang’s pangs of sea-sickness in “Tom…
POOR JACK.
I climbed the steep hill that runs from the Belvedere railway-station, pausing now and again…
ON THE GOODWINS.
On a fine, calm day from the height of the cliffs betwixt Ramsgate and Broadstairs…
OFF THE HORN.
The passage of the Horn has long ceased to be a thing to boast about.…
LOSS OF A SMACK’S CREW.
I fell once into conversation with a smack-boy—a Yorkshire lad—who told me a story which…
IN AN OPEN BOAT.
Loneliness has many forms. It is Selkirk, imprisoned in an island, with nothing but the…
GRAVESEND.
I never pass Gravesend without thinking of poor Mrs. Henry Fielding’s dreadful toothache, and the…
GOING ALOFT.
Some time ago, when the Queen was at Osborne, her Majesty visited a troopship in…
FIRE AT SEA.
An impressive story of the destruction by fire of a full-rigged American ship in the…
BROKERS’ BAY.
Brokers’ Bay is situated on the West Coast of England. You may search the map…