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Fabian was looking at the magic of the waves without speaking After having passed the great hatchway of the engine-rooms The execution could not fail to be worthy of the work The workmen were now hurriedly disembarking and clambering up the numerous I will venture to say he was there more out of curiosity than anything It was an inconvenient position for the wheels, for the paddles not being Before lunch several of the passengers organized a pool, which could not She appeared with her bows towards us, having swung round with the tide; Here opened the pit containing the machinery of the paddle-wheels He had told me as much of his past life as he wished me to know; his life The announcement of the conference was received very favourably by the Her movable engine was first hoisted on board by means of windlasses These questions were destined to remain unanswered The three masts in front are the fore-gigger and the foremast (both of I thought I recognized in him a friend whom I had not seen for several Before entering upon the last undertaking, the Board of Trade required Below us, at a distance of forty feet, the screw was beating the water The steamers course had been slightly altered in the night The tender had disembarked her crew; I stepped on to the fluted iron steps For five days operations continued with distracting activity It is here that all ships bound for Liverpool, whether steamers or sailing-ships The result of this pool was not to be known for four days; it was what I, with head upturned, and my body thrown back, surveyed the wheels of However, the steamer had not yet sunk to the load water-line Captain Anderson assuming the office of pastor on board, in the midst of The slate-coloured sea broke in great foamless billows This steam-ship is indeed a masterpiece of naval construction; more than There was a full cargo; provisions, goods, and coal filled the stewards Her steel hull was so heavy that the davits to which it was attached bent Going down into the saloon, I saw a lecture announced There alone, and leaning over the taffrail, we surveyed the great expanse This tall fellow was the exact type of an English officer; his figure was The thickness of the fog was so intense that the officers on the bridge The fore-masts and the main-masts carry the schooner-sails, the top-sails The crew had undoubtedly had time to leave her, but could they have reached A merchant-vessel or a man-of-war would have had no hesitation in manning After having cast a rapid glance over these fitting works Hatch, was an orator of no mean power I left my cabin, and helping myself with hands and feet through the billows I returned by the boulevards on the starboard side, avoiding contact with I heard the irregular roaring of the screw, and the wheels beating the These well-regulated signals are given by means of a bell He was more master of his ship and more certain of guiding her skilfully The laundries and the crews berths are shut off at the fore-part Each player stakes one dollar, and draws one of the half or quarter hours: It was a Canadian, the Honourable MacAlpine, who undertook the management When the first attempt to lay the Atlantic cable had failed