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Excerpt from Three Pleasant Springs in Portugal
And twenty years later an officer, on his way to join the army in the Peninsula, was a whole month on passage from Spithead to Lisbon - three weeks tossing in the Bay! Still, the voyage had its agre'ments. Our passengers were continually quarrelling among themselves, and some of them had given and received so many challenges to mortal combat, that the number of duels to be fought when they got ashore was quite bewildering, and it would have been necessary that a diary of events had been kept by which to ascertain their order of precedence.' How tame and commonplace, by comparison, must seem the experience of the present-day traveller! Why, dear me, more than fifty years ago we find the author of The Crescent and the Cross dogmatising in the airiest fashion about the much-calumniated Bay of Biscay, whose dangers are merely traditional, since the introduction Of steam.'
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