May-September 1881, Cruise of the Corwin Sketches and Notes Image 4

• Main Author: Muir, John
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Scholarly Commons 1881
• Subjects: John Muir; journals; drawings; writings; travel; journaling; naturalist; Anchorage; Scud; Newfoundland
• Online Access: https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/jmj-all/1744; https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/context/jmj-all/article/2743/type/native/viewcontent/fullsize.jpg

tops and carried them away in the form of gray scud. Never before have I seen the sea in so hearty and exhilarating a motion. IT was all one white, howling, rampant, runaway mass of foam from side to side. We feared getting our decks swept. Caught as we were between the tide and the gale, therefore,...