Dhow Chasing in Zanzibar Waters - The Search For Mecca

94 DHOW-CHASING.
"Pantaloon" previously mentioned, she liad long
since been broken up.
A passage to India vid Alexandria, in a mailboat,
though so familiar an event to
some, has
nevertheless many incidents connected with it
worth relating, and which to me, at the time,
were quite novel. Of course, there was the
usual pitching and tossing, and consequent
retirement of the passengers for periods varying
from twenty-four to seventy-two hours, and their
gradual reappearance, one by one,
when more
accustomed to the motion of the steamer.
If Mr. Bessemer should succeed in his plan
of preventing sea-sickness by means of a suspended
saloon, he will be a universal benefactor;
but there is one motion in a ship which, of all
others, I believe to be the most productive of
this unpleasant malady, and unless Mr. Bessemer
should be able to place his vessel on fixed
rails, or Britannia should rule the waves
smoother as well as straighter, I fear he will
not succeed in counteracting ; this occurs when
some freakish^ disposed vessel, anxious to
make herself as disagreeable as possible to