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Rereading as audiobook

"On the arrival of the ship, the carpenter immediately set to work to make a great cross of jarrah wood. There was some discussion as to the inscription, it being urged that there should be some quotation from the bible because 'the women think a lot of these things.' But I was glad to see the concluding line of Tennyson's Ulysses adopted: 'to strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.'"

Apsley made me cry with Tennyson. Low blow, Apsley.

"The winds of the world were there, and they had all gone mad. We had bad winds at Cape Evan this year, and we had far worse the next winter when the open water was at our doors, but I have never heard or felt or seen a wind like this. I wondered why it did not carry away the earth."