Acuteness of the perceptive faculties characterized the
celebrated Maine steamship captain who, for more than twenty
years, is said to have regularly navigated his vessel in the
thickest fogs and darkest nights through the tortuous reaches,
thoroughfares, and channels of the “inside passage” along the
coast of Maine, without accident. When asked for an explanation
of his remarkable record, he replied, “I knew the bark of every
dog and the crow of every rooster on the line, and often steered
by them.”--SUMNER I. KIMBALL, “Joshua James.”
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