Excerpt from The Gates of the Caribbean: The Story of a Great White Fleet Caribbean Cruise And it is to be noted at the outset that the enterprise is carried out under the more or less normal conditions of a comfortable human existence. It may conduce to the happiness of some to become microscopic units in a vessel so enormous that one may cross the ocean in it without ever seeing it, or spend many hours losing one's way in its interminable corridors. On the other hand, it is in accordance with average temperaments to find ...
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Excerpt from The Gates of the Caribbean: The Story of a Great White Fleet Caribbean Cruise And it is to be noted at the outset that the enterprise is carried out under the more or less normal conditions of a comfortable human existence. It may conduce to the happiness of some to become microscopic units in a vessel so enormous that one may cross the ocean in it without ever seeing it, or spend many hours losing one's way in its interminable corridors. On the other hand, it is in accordance with average temperaments to find this vessel of ours, just and gracile in her modelling, spacious and modestly beautiful in her garnitures, an adequate substitute for the houses and country clubs we have left amid the wintery landscape at home. That same wintery landscape, however, will be already receding by the time we have adjusted our personalities to the novel environment of shipboard life. It is a favorite recreation of witty folk to make disparaging remarks concerning the habits of those who travel by sea. Doctor Johnson set the melancholy fashion when he remarked dryly that being on a shipwas like being in jail, with the added risk of getting drowned. It is true that there are certain practical natures so addicted to dry land that they will admit no other reason for sailing on the ocean than their desire to reach some otherwise inaccessible destination. But for those who have what Walter Baghote called an enjoying nature, who can from the safe seclusion of a deck-chair regard with philosophical benignity the strenuous pastimes of youth, the four days between New York and Havana will pass all too quickly. By the time the mountains of Cuba emerge from the horizon, there will have come upon the ship's company a sense of solidarity born of the explicit object to which they have dedicated the coming days. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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