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Excerpt from Six Years Travels in Russia, Vol. 1 of 2
These were unusually hilarious sounds, which, issuing from the breakfast-table, greeted us in our distant cabin on awakening to that joyous morn ing, the fourth since we had left Stettin, and the last we were likely to pass on board the Vladimir. A heavy sea and high winds - the usual avant courrz'ers of approaching winter in these latitudes - had beset our gallant vessel ever since she quitted the lagoon at the mouth of the Oder, terminating in a violent tussle in the Gulf of Finland, from which she was likely to have suf feted severely but for a sudden change in the wind that enabled her to escape with comparatively small damage, such as the loss of some of her gear, a few bruises, breakages, tattered gibs, and the almost suspended animation of every female heart on board. But, happily, the fears and sorrows of the past night were merged in other feelings, in the unexpected - and to most of us unprecedented scene which awaited our awakening in the morning.
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