"Sailing the sea was stupefying to the mind and poisonous to the temper; the sea, the motions, the lack of space, the cruel publicity, the villainous tinned food, the sailors, the captain, the passengers -- but you are amply repaid when you sight an island, and drop anchor in a new world."
Robt. Louis Stevenson, aboard S/V Casco 1888
In a letter to a friend
Image courtesy NCSU Libraries
