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Rh same hour on the following morning we did a good deal too much of Tennysonian "climbing up the climbing wave." Nature was then more than amply avenged upon those who had neglected to worship her in her gentler aspects. Many of them went, indeed, to the opposite extreme; for ere night fell they had exchanged their careless lounging postures for what it would be inadequate to describe as a mere attitude of worship. It was one of absolute prostration.