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[saigai]

up in the crows nest in a storm around the cape...how effin crazy were those sailors....how wild a ride that must have been ....i would have sailed out if i were born in those days...cant sail the cape but i can roll the dice...

In White-Jacket, Herman Melville wrote, "But if you want the best idea of Cape Horn, get my friend Dana's unmatchable Two Years Before the Mast. But you can read, and so you must have read it. His chapters describing Cape Horn must have been written with an icicle."[