Oh, good Doctors, do arise, and but give us one more chance for breath, one more chance, that we may at least have the comfort of a genteel death!!

Continuous footboards ran along each side of the narrow body.

A wave simulator in the tank can re-enact tsunamis and northeasters, and imitate wave conditions from midocean.

Before we had gone fifty yards we perceived that all hopes of getting further up the stream in the whale-boat were at an end, for not two hundred yards above where we had stopped were a succession of shallows and mudbanks, with not six inches of water over them.