Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 81, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 June 1901 — The Wickedest Bit of Sea. [ARTICLE]

The Wickedest Bit of Sea.

Nine out of ten travelers would tell inquirers that the roughest piece of water is that cruel stretch in the English channel, and nme out of ten travelers would say what was not true. In reality the “wickedest bit of sea” is not in the Dover straits; or in yachting, for example, from St. Jean de Luiz up to Pauillac; or across the Mediterranean race from Cadiz to Tangiers. Nor is it in rounding Cape Horn, where there is what sailors call a “true” sea. The “wickedest sea” is encountered In rounding the Cape of Good Hope for the eastern ports Of Cape Colony.