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Only observe how Troubridge supported us. By God, Mr Simple, he was the real fellow, and Nelson knew it well. He was Nelson's right-hand man; but you know, there wasn't room for two Nelsons. Their ships engaged held out well, it must be acknowledged, but why weren't they all in their proper berths?
We felt genuine regret and compunction at being obliged to leave the "Queen of the summer sea" without paying our devoirs at the tomb of Virgil, father of Latin poets. We had unfortunately been unable to make any excursions in this direction, owing to our limited time. The railway journey to Messina is both tedious and expensive, we therefore secured berths in one of the Florio line of steamers.
More than this, he said that he would give them berths on one of his vessels as soon as they regained their freedom, and that he had written to his agent to that effect.
Barbadoes was the next island which we visited. The berths, for there were two, had but one mattress between them; however, a foresail folded made up the complement. The being for the most part directly against us, we were seven days in reaching Barbadoes. Our aversion to the sepulchre-like cabin obliged us to spend, not the days only, but the nights mostly on the open deck.
Looking out into the car Annixter saw in an end section where the berths had not been made up, the porter, in his white duck coat, dozing, his mouth wide open, his head on his shoulder. The hours passed. Midnight came and went. Annixter, checking off the stations, noted their passage of Modesto, Merced, and Madeira. Then, after another broken nap, he lost count. He wondered where they were.
From what he heard about some people who had engaged berths at the last minute, he couldn't be quite sure I wasn't one of them, having gone under an assumed name. To add to the trouble, no answer came from Sally. Mrs. Hale, according to instructions, had opened the telegram, and knowing something of the story from Sally, wasn't anxious to relieve Mrs.
"Been a steward, haven't you?" he inquired. "Yes, sir." The waiter pocketed the tip with alacrity. "Hamburg-American Line, sir." "Thought so." Miller signed his name with careful attention to each stroke of the pencil. "How many of you are employed here?" "Eight, sir. The lines are tied up; we must have work, and it's hard to get good berths, sir, with so many ships interned."
Once inside, out of the rain, I drew curtains before all the lights and then lit the lamp over the cabin table. There were four berths, two on each side, with lockers fore and aft. Altogether the cabin of the Wavecrest was cozy and not a bad place at all in which to spend a night. It was still early in the evening.
In arcosolium tombs the receptacles are benches cut in the wall, like the berths in a steamer's cabin. These are sometimes sunk, so as to resemble rock-cut sarcophagi. The late tombs round Jerusalem are in the form of caves driven horizontally into the hill-sides. IV. Caves. The history of the artificial caves hewn in the soft limestone of Palestine, is quite unknown.
The sleeping-bunks in the car could hardly be called berths, but they served to lessen the fatigues of the night, and when Bucks woke in the morning he saw from his window a vast stretch of rough, desert country bordered by distant mountain peaks, some black, some brown, some snow-capped in the morning sun.
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