A Medical Student's Letters to His Parents (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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Excerpt from A Medical Student's Letters to His Parents

You will see from the above address Where I am after my long voyage across the blue Atlantic. Up to the last two days at sea the weather was fine, and time passed smoothly and pleasantly with the fifty saloon passengers on board. I saw a good deal of an Englishman, a member of the House of Commons, whom I expect to meet again in London.

About ten o'clock Saturday night, however, a gale overtook us. As I was not seasick, I re mained on the bridge with the first officer until the early morning, when even the bridge became too sloppy for anyone but a sailor. Fortunately the wind was with us. We shipped one or two seas and the mail room was flooded. On Sunday while at lunch, a huge wave struck us and came rushing down the hatchways, and in the afternoon the smoking room was almost carried away, and I found myself up to my knees in water before I knew where I was.

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