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Chapter 5 - This Voyage -
From There Go the Ships by George Shirley

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A squall is a sudden gust of wind that comes with little or no warning. Lakes, surrounded by mountains and valleys, are frequently visited with squalls, as the wind rushing down the ravines and valleys comes suddenly. Therefore, a good look-out must be kept. They are very dangerous. I heard my father say, that just. before a white squall which they had prepared for, a beautiful schooner was seen in full sail, and after it was over she was nowhere to be seen, had gone down, with every sail set. She had not prepared for it.
 
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I was in a white squall at Spithead in a sailing-boat, the wind contrary, or, as the sailors say, "right in our teeth." We had to get on board an East 1ndiaman to do some work required to a carriage, therefore had to heat out against the wind, that is, to sail in a zigzag way; and we had just, reached Fort Monckton, to make the final tack to the ship. The sun was shining brightly, when suddenly a white mist obscured Hyde, and the boatman said to us, "Prepare, gentlemen, for it's coming." We secured ourselves in the boat, - and it did come, rain and blow, nothing to he seen but Spithead, one vast sheet of foam, and the rout terrible indeed. The boy attending to the foresheets was hid by the spray flying over, and the man stood with the other sheets in his hand and the rain streaming off his nose, ready to let go the sheets in a moment of danger. It was an awful ten nminutes. When the sun burst out again we were nearly alongside the Indiaman.

So in life's voyage, sudden temptations are like white squalls. They come fiercely, and threaten with

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