Wes Kline

 

He wrote, “This is to say first, the voyage was a huge success. We all enjoyed it to the ground: sixteen days at sea with a cargo of hay, matches, stallions, and monkeys, and in a ship with no style on, and plenty of sailors to talk to, and the endless pleasures of the sea – the romance of it, the sport of the scratch dinner and the smashing crockery, the pleasure – an endless pleasure – of balancing to the swell: well, it’s over.”