The Sale of Winds

7月 27, 2010 · Posted in 未分類 

No landsman who goes to sea-or stays home and reads Marryat and Clark Russell Conrad and William McFee-can fail to be impressed with the observation that the sailor’s ideas about weather differ materially from those prevailing on shore, and that he has a vocabulary peculiar to himself for discussing its doings. On land we generally think of the temperature of the air as the most important element of weather. The ups and downs of the thermometer form the staple of our weather conversations, but it seems to be all one to the sailor whether the rigging is stiff with frozen spray or the deck is oozing pitch in the inferno of the Red Sea.

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