在热带地区的宁静天气中,它极其令人愉悦 - 桅杆头;不,对于一个梦幻般的冥想男人来说,这是令人愉快的。在那里,您站在寂静的甲板上方一百英尺处,沿着深处大步走,好像桅杆是巨大的高跷,而在您的下方和双腿之间(就像它一样),即使船只曾经曾经在著名的老罗德(Old Rhodes)的靴子之间航行,即使船只曾经航行。
(In the serene weather of the tropics it is exceedingly pleasant-the mast-head; nay, to a dreamy meditative man it is delightful. There you stand, a hundred feet above the silent decks, striding along the deep, as if the masts were gigantic stilts, while beneath you and between your legs, as it were, swim the hugest monsters of the sea, even as ships once sailed between the boots of the famous Colossus at old Rhodes.)