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Stories on Voyage

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Expression used by one of the Officers "as white as a bloody sheet."

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Another bit I used to like to hear him tell was how they came racing home in a little sailing boat with a heavy wind blowing, somewhere in S. America. — Fitzroy steering & having every bit of canvas enough sail out to keep one edge of the boat under water all the way, & every one who wasn't wanted crowded lying flat in the bottom of boat for safety. He used to tell describe with such vividness the perfection of daring seamanship & how very unpleasant it was to feel that it all depended on his judgement & the exact & instant obedience of the men who had hold of the sail & of the steersman rudder * — or did Fitzroy have hold of sail himself

Fitzroy steered I think — FD¹

¹ FD = Francis Darwin, who added this comment to the text.