Note 17 — A SEA DIRGE[16]
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Mr. Dodgson himself was an exceptionally good sailor. In his diary for July 13, 1867, describing a Channel crossing, he says: “The pen refuses to describe the sufferings of some of the passengers ... my own sensations were those of extreme surprise, and a little indignation, at there being no other sensations; it was not for that I paid my money.”