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The group of passengers dispersed, some to the saloons, others to their cabins Towards five oclock a small steamer, intended as a shore-boat for the Great The giant could have hoisted these ships on its davits like shore-boats After having cast a rapid glance over these fitting works There was a full cargo; provisions, goods, and coal filled the stewards The Great Eastern was announced to sail on the 20th of March The tender immediately sheered off, and the sailors went to the lows The three masts in front are the fore-gigger and the foremast (both of The lines of the Great Eastern are very elongated; her straight stem is These accumulated vapours rising from the sea constitute the greatest danger The officer on watch had ordered the sails to be taken in All these good people seemed to have hats and boots of a dazzling brightness Fabian was looking at the magic of the waves without speaking For five days operations continued with distracting activity At the bows was an engine of sixty-six horse-power The last three astern are the after-main-mast, mizen-mast I saw also piles of Bibles, which were to be distributed in the church The laying of the cable having been successfully accomplished When the first attempt to lay the Atlantic cable had failed The laundries and the crews berths are shut off at the fore-part There was a piercing wind, and about ten oclock the deck was powdered by Numbers of the faithful were already in their places Seen from the side, these wheels looked narrow and contracted The water from the skies and sea mingled in a dense fog I could hardly see the tops of the masts, two hundred feet in height What did he see in this liquid mirror, which gave scope to the most capricious Would not the good Yorrick have done the same? I looked at Dean Pitferge; Portmanteaus and bags came in and out of my cabin; an unusual hubbub reigned These delays considerably affected the enterprize of the freighters To weigh anchor under these circumstances required considerable exertion A black mire that British mud which is so rarely absent from the pavement One might have thought oneself in the worst part of Upper Thames Street Be it as it may, I had not time to observe him more closely From Dublin they are conveyed across the channel to Holyhead by a fast I went on board and found it already crowded with workmen and mechanics Here between the last small deck cabin and the enormous gratings of the The Great Eastern swung round with the tide; all was now clear From the deck rise six masts and five chimneys I, following the general example, staked my dollar, and fate allotted me He easily collected ninety-six players, including several professed gamblers