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Updated: May 26, 2025
Visiting a prison camp is somewhat like touching at an island in the night one of those tropical islands, for instance, whose curious and crowded life shows for an instant as your steamer leaves the mail or takes on a load of deck-hands, and then fades away into a few twinkling lights and the sound of a bell across the water.
She was put in about the same trim as when she went up the rivers of Borneo. Felipe was to be the engineer, Pitts the cook, and four sailors were detailed for deck-hands. The excursion had been arranged for five days; and the bags, valises, and other impedimenta of the voyagers, were on deck at an early hour.
Ellison's misfortune occasioned among the bystanding habitans and deck-hands, and the passengers eagerly craning forward over the bulwarks, and running ashore to see what the matter was. Few men know just how to offer those little offices of helpfulness which such emergencies demand, and Mr.
During the last few minutes before the mooring-lines of the boat were cast loose all the party stood along the rail watching the breed deck-hands carrying aboard the remainder of the boat's cargo. Rob expressed the greatest surprise at the enormous loads which these men carried easily from the storehouse down the slippery bank and up the steep gang-plank.
Then we took hold and gave the deck-hands a lift with my baggage, Merton showing much manly spirit in his readiness to face the weather and the work. My effects were soon piled up by themselves, and then we held a council. "Mrs. Durham'll hardly want to face this storm with the children," began Mr. Jones. "Are you going home?" I asked. "Yes, sir.
Just before the steamer approached the city, a circumstance occurred on board that filled me and my fellow-passengers with horror. We were taking breakfast in the cabin, congratulating each other on the near termination of our tedious passage, when a sudden shriek, followed by shouts from the deck-hands of the vessel, disturbed our meal.
White was a man who delivered his exhortations with the same sort of vehemence that Captain White had used in giving orders to his deck-hands in a storm; he arrested souls much as Sheriff White had arrested criminals. To Albert's infidelity he gave no quarter. Charlton despised the chaplain's lack of learning until he came to admire his sincerity and wonder at his success.
The saloon was neatly furnished, and I thought our passengers could be very comfortable on board of the Wetumpka for a couple of weeks. The steward and his force were busy getting ready for dinner; but I set the deck-hands to moving the baggage of the passengers at once.
"Come along, men!" said he to the deck-hands. I sprang ahead of them flung the door shut put my back against it: crying out against him all the while. My sister caught my wrist I pushed her away. Tom Tot laid his hand on my shoulder I threw it off with an oath. My heart was in a flame of rage and resentment. That this castaway should succour our enemy!
"Let me go," whispered Richling. But the Doctor held him. "You didn't do this on the steam-boat landing, did you, Richling?" The young man nodded. The Doctor dropped the hand and looked upon its owner with set lips and steady severity. When he spoke he said: "Among the negro and green Irish deck-hands, and under the oaths and blows of steam-boat mates! Why, Richling!"
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