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Roque, Brazil All at sea regarding the Spanish-American war An exchange of signals with the battle-ship Oregon Off Dreyfus's prison on Devil's Island Reappearance to the Spray of the north star The light on Trinidad A charming introduction to Grenada Talks to friendly auditors.
Never was the temper and patience of the American people more sorely tried than by the two months of waiting and suspense that followed the destruction of their splendid battle-ship.
Crab C could not venture under these, and all day she accompanied the Adamant on her voyage south, dashing to this side and that, and looking for the chance that did not come, for all day the cannon of the battle-ship roared at her wherever she might be. The inmates of Crab K were now very restive and uneasy, for they were on short rations, both of food and water.
The captain of our ship grew very angry, but the officer from the battle-ship remained polite, and presently he took away with him certain of our stokers. The captain of our ship shouted after him that there were only weaklings and devil's leavings left, but later we discovered that was not true. We fretted at delay at Suez.
In the prize court it was decided to confiscate the coal, and release the steamer. The President issued a proclamation calling for seventy-five thousand men. Three troop-ships, laden with soldiers, sailed from San Francisco for Manila. May 26. The battle-ship Oregon, which left San Francisco March 19th, arrived at Key West. May 27.
The great ironclad battle-ship, with her lofty sides plated with nearly two feet of solid steel, with her six great guns, each weighing more than a hundred tons, with her armament of other guns, machine cannon, and almost every appliance of naval warfare, with a small army of officers and men on board, was left in charge of Crab K, of which only a few square yards of armoured roof could be seen above the water.
The year before, the keel of the first of the battle-ships, the "Texas," had been laid in the navy-yard at Norfolk, Va., and in 1889 work was begun at the Brooklyn navy yard upon another vessel of the same class, the "Maine." These vessels are respectively of 6,314 and 6,648 tons displacement. The construction of a third battle-ship, which had been provided for, had not yet been begun.
The return of the battle-ship fleet from its voyage around the world, in more efficient condition than when it started, was a noteworthy event of interest alike to our citizens and the naval authorities of the world.
The United States possesses six and Great Britain one of the seven dynamite guns that have thus far been manufactured for coast defence. The "Iowa," a battle-ship of the first class whose keel was laid in 1893, was launched in March, 1895.
My nature is one of extremes; if I did not encase myself, I should be ramming every man's absurd opinions down his throat, and letting my cursed temper fly at each of the provocations which constantly beset me. I have not the happy gift of compromise; but I am not unhuman, and I like not the prospect of going down to posterity a wooden figurehead upon some emblematic battle-ship.
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