"Why, there's as much difference between a capful of wind in the Channel, and a gale off the Cape, as there is between a newborn baby and me." "Do they last long, generally ?" "Last! Why they goes on for weeks.

There ain't no end to them.

I've wondered sometimes to myself where all the wind comes from, and where it goes to, onlass it works round and round." "But it does work round and round, Bill ?" "Ay, when you are near the centre of it.

Why, lad, in three hours I have gone round the compass three times, with the wind dead aft all the time; but that's only when you are near the centre.

When you ain't it blows straight, and I have known vessels run for days--ay, for weeks--with the wind blowing all the time in the same quarter.
Some have been blown down right to the edge of the ice, south.