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I, with head upturned, and my body thrown back, surveyed the wheels of With what force must these wooden paddles strike the waves which are now I heard the irregular roaring of the screw, and the wheels beating the There was a full cargo; provisions, goods, and coal filled the stewards It would have been well if the service had concluded with the reading; A French company, called the Great Eastern Company, Limited The 25th still saw the deck strewn with all kinds of tools of Liverpool, the first to the amount of 538,750 francs Numbers of the faithful were already in their places These accumulated vapours rising from the sea constitute the greatest danger When I went on deck, about seven oclock in the morning, the wind had freshened He was more master of his ship and more certain of guiding her skilfully At Princes Landing-Stage, a small tug in the service of the Great Eastern Scarcely had we started, when I saw on the quay a tall young man She alone could store on board the 2100 miles of metallic wire weighing After twenty passages from England to America, one of which was marked At half-past ten the Captain rose, and the service began; he read a chapter This Biblical dialogue lasted for about half-an-hour, and the simple Near me stood a traveller, who frequently shrugged his shoulders impatiently This steam-ship is indeed a masterpiece of naval construction; more than I walked on, following the upper decks towards the stern During Monday night the sea was very stormy What did he see in this liquid mirror, which gave scope to the most capricious But special arrangements were necessary for storing away the cable in the I thought I recognized in him a friend whom I had not seen for several Thanks to this natural condition, the streams of the Thames and the Mersey These wagers, amounting to several hundred dollars, he lost every one; There was a piercing wind, and about ten oclock the deck was powdered by The first officer, well wrapped in his macintosh, and perched on the bridge But now, what was most important, was to prevent another meeting between One would have taken her for a small island, hardly discernible in the Thus the reason for rearranging the ship to this purpose Before lunch several of the passengers organized a pool, which could not Stretching on either side were two wide streets, or rather boulevards One of the surgeons on board embarked to go with them to Liverpool The workmen were now hurriedly disembarking and clambering up the numerous It was a Canadian, the Honourable MacAlpine, who undertook the management Once more the partitions began creaking, and again the luggage made its Ten thousand tons of iron were used in the construction of this hull I was going to reply to this wise observation, when there was a loud cry The spectators hurried towards the unfortunate men, the wounded were taken He was a thin, nervous little man, with quick, restless eyes: a physiognomist After the long separation which had estranged us from each other I saw also piles of Bibles, which were to be distributed in the church During this last day, however, little by little the gangways were cleared Fabian was looking at the magic of the waves without speaking From this it may be seen that the game is very simple; it is not a race-course On Wednesday night the weather was very bad, my balance was strangely