Summer solstice , the 23d of June ; we had doubled the Cape of Good Hope
We could neither give , nor receive , the consolations of friendship . The violence of the wind was so great , that not a word could be heard , even though shouted directly in the ear . The air carried away our voices , and nothing could be distinguished but the sharp whistling of the wind through the yards and rigging , and the booming of the waves , which resembled the howlings of ferocious beasts . Thus we hovered between life and death , from sun rise to sunset .
BERNARDIN DE ST . PIERRE . Harmonies de la nature .
Bernardin de St. Pierre) (19 January 1737 Le Havre – 21 January 1814 Éragny, Val-d'Oise) was a French writer and botanist.
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