Chapter 21 No.21

Meantime the steady wind serenely blew,

And fast and falcon-like the vessel flew.

DOES any one know what a sailing-voyage, in a coasting-vessel, from Tampa to Key West-a distance of two hundred and fifty miles-implies? Some may suppose it to be a kind of flying motion through the air, or skimming swiftly over the waters, like a sea-gull in ro