It was a small flowing body of water before it became a continuous transfer of data. What is it?

On your cruise you seem to have had a case of what the French call "mal de mer". What is it? Which word can mean a hiding place for food or treasure, or fast memory on a computer's processor or motherboard? Which Southern word means repairing, but before "to" means "about to"? Which term describes the final half of an 18-hole golf course? What was novelist Henry Miller's middle name, though he wasn't born on February 14 and was certainly no saint? Which city was officially made the capital of a kingdom 109 years before it became a state capital? What is a device, such as a bandage twisted around a limb, used to stop the flow of blood? Which is alphabetically first of the Seven Sisters colleges?