"Tho the Ship was an excellent Sea Boat, it was as much as she could do to live in this tremendous sea where the Elements seem to wage Continual War."

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Original Language: English

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James Morrison, Bosun’s Mate, describing the rough seas around Cape Horn (March 1788); Journal on HMS Bounty and at Tahiti (1792), p. 7 (original in the Mitchell Library)