Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Venetian” in chapter 33, page 433 of Raphael Semmes, Memoirs of Service Afloat During the War Between the States:

...the shore, looked weird and unearthly, like sheeted ghosts. The boats moving swiftly and mysteriously toward the shore, might have been mistaken, when they had gotten a little distance from us, for Venetian gondolas, with their peaked bows and sterns, especially when we heard coming over the sea, a song, sung by a powerful and musical voice, and chorussed by all the boats. Those merry fellows were thu...
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