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After twenty passages from England to America, one of which was marked These unhappy men, killed and wounded, were only tools, which could be First of all, during the service, although the weather was fine Thanks to this natural condition, the streams of the Thames and the Mersey Soon we came in sight of Queenstown, a small calling-place The engine was composed of two horizontal cylinders, and presented a system So that, although the pressure of the boilers had risen, the ships speed And now for the first time the Great Eastern was to be steered by steam Stretching on either side were two wide streets, or rather boulevards At half-past ten the Captain rose, and the service began; he read a chapter There was a full cargo; provisions, goods, and coal filled the stewards I should not have been surprised to see the stokers working in black clothes; At two oclock the fog grew dense again, the wind fell and rose at the same The Great Eastern swung round with the tide; all was now clear It was for this delicate operation that the engineers intended the engine Freed from their broken rope-bands, the capstan-bars flew in all directions This tall fellow was the exact type of an English officer; his figure was He had told me as much of his past life as he wished me to know; his life I went towards the fore-part of the vessel, the staircase had not yet been In four days, at the latest, the Great Eastern must reach New York harbour; He was more master of his ship and more certain of guiding her skilfully After having passed the great hatchway of the engine-rooms There was a piercing wind, and about ten oclock the deck was powdered by The Great Eastern draws 30 feet of water with a cargo of 28,500 tons Everything was finished by evening; not a trace of mud was visible on the A merchant-vessel or a man-of-war would have had no hesitation in manning All these good people seemed to have hats and boots of a dazzling brightness A black mire that British mud which is so rarely absent from the pavement After having cast a rapid glance over these fitting works The fore-masts and the main-masts carry the schooner-sails, the top-sails Her movable engine was first hoisted on board by means of windlasses Involuntarily one looked for the village steeple which was calling to prayer One would have taken her for a small island, hardly discernible in the On the spacious mastheads of the second and third masts a band of soldiers Only at night, perhaps eluding her gaoler, she came out to bathe herself Below us, at a distance of forty feet, the screw was beating the water First of all the anchor had to be raised The atmosphere was grey, and birds flew screeching through the damp mists In this position the deck of the tender was only on a level with the load Towards five oclock a small steamer, intended as a shore-boat for the Great