Hi Mary, The quote you are looking for is as follows: Chapter 35, Vicksburg During the Trouble; LIFE ON THE MISSISSIPPI; (page 379 in the first edition) about six paragraphs down, in the middle of the section begining with "Those are the materials furnished by history." Here is the text: When one makes his first voyage in a ship, it is an experience which multitudinously bristles with striking novelties; novelties which are in such sharp contrast with all this person's former experiences that they take a seemingly deathless grip upon his imagination and memory. Kevin B.