The taking of Departure, if not the last sight of the land, is, perhaps, the last professional recognition of the land on the part of a sailor. It is the technical, as distinguished from the sentimental, "good-bye." Henceforth he has done with the coast astern of his ship. It is a matter personal to the man. It is not the ship that takes her departure; the seaman takes his Departure by means of cross-bearings which fix the place of the first tiny pencil-cross on the white expanse of the track-chart, where the ship's position at noon shall be marked by just such another tiny pencil cross for every day of her passage. And there may be sixty, eighty, any number of these crosses on the ship's track from land to land. The greatest number in my experience was a hundred and thirty of such crosses from the pilot station at the Sand Heads in the Bay of Bengal to the Scilly's light. A bad passage....
| ISBN: | 9781678412364 |
| Publication date: | 27th December 2019 |
| Author: | Joseph Conrad |
| Publisher: | Independently Published an imprint of Amazon Digital Services LLC - KDP Print US |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 140 pages |
| Genres: |
General Fiction Classic fiction: general and literary Action Adventure |