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The Great Eastern turned in time to avoid her, thanks to the promptitude There was no longer any doubt of icebergs being very near When a ship arrives at the land-falls every one knows that a pilot comes Beside the Great Eastern, these three-mast ships looked like barges; their At half-past ten the Captain rose, and the service began; he read a chapter These delays considerably affected the enterprize of the freighters The Utah missionary was going to hold a meeting on Mormonism; a good opportunity Meanwhile the tender approached the Great Eastern, whose chains were violently She is capable of receiving 10,000 passengers, so that out of the 373 principal But my imagination carried me no farther; all these things I did indeed At the bows was an engine of sixty-six horse-power The tender had disembarked her crew; I stepped on to the fluted iron steps At ten oclock the bell on deck tolled slowly and at regular intervals; The atmosphere was grey, and birds flew screeching through the damp mists Had this steam-ship been abandoned by her crew? This was now the prevailing I, with head upturned, and my body thrown back, surveyed the wheels of After the long separation which had estranged us from each other The first officer, well wrapped in his macintosh, and perched on the bridge First of all the anchor had to be raised The slate-coloured sea broke in great foamless billows Therefore, to the great regret of the sailors, it had to be abandoned The thickness of the fog was so intense that the officers on the bridge Scarcely had we started, when I saw on the quay a tall young man But now, what was most important, was to prevent another meeting between From Dublin they are conveyed across the channel to Holyhead by a fast I was willing to content myself with this reason, and in the meantime observed Thus, in the midst of the fog, officers and sailors were obliged to keep When I went on deck, about seven oclock in the morning, the wind had freshened Numerous vessels, brigs and schooners, were awaiting the tide; steamers For five days operations continued with distracting activity Her movable engine was first hoisted on board by means of windlasses My friend Dean Pitferge was near him, his quick little eyes running over I returned by the boulevards on the starboard side, avoiding contact with The fact is, these divisions are reckoned from noon to noon I thought myself very fortunate that the screw was allowed to continue She appeared with her bows towards us, having swung round with the tide; The giant could have hoisted these ships on its davits like shore-boats At half-past ten, the fog having cleared off, a screw steamer appeared Towards five oclock a small steamer, intended as a shore-boat for the Great Each player stakes one dollar, and draws one of the half or quarter hours: