A visit to Iceland, by way of Tronyem, in the "Flower of Yarrow" yacht, in the summer of 1834 / By John Barrow.
- John Barrow Jr.
- Date:
- 1835
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: A visit to Iceland, by way of Tronyem, in the "Flower of Yarrow" yacht, in the summer of 1834 / By John Barrow. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Chap. VIII.] STORMY WEATHER. 25/ which the difference of being in eager pursuit after a highly interesting object on the one day, and the mortification of being totally frustrated in the attainment of that object on the next,—and our disappointment will readily be felt. Before we reached the end of our little voyage it blew very hard, and the sea was running so high as to cause the yacht to be tossed about even more than on any part of the voyage from England, and we had then encountered some pretty heavy seas. The motion was so rough and irregular, that some of the sailors even were sea-sick, and amongst the rest the oldest seaman in the vessel, who told me, ina half-angry tone, that he had been upwards of twelve years in the king’s service, and had never before been troubled with such a disagreeable com- plaint. It was next to impossible for the men to keep on their legs in the fore part of the vessel below deck, and the poor cook got sadly knocked about in the execution of his duties, to the no small amusement of the sailors, who, ill at ease themselves, seemed to enjoy a joke at his expense. Some idea of the pitching of the vessel may be formed, when it is stated that she dipped her jib- boom with such force under water as to snap it asunder, its height, when the vessel was on an even keel or in still water, being not less than thirty feet from the surface. This was the only spar we carried away during the whole of our voyage. It will readily be imagined that we made but slow |](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b33280022_0301.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
