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Updated: May 10, 2025
It comprises the stately man-of-war and the Chinese Junk; the P. and O., the Messagerie Maritime, the British India and the Dutch mail-boat; the homely sampan, the yacht of the globe-trotting millionaire, the collier, the timber-ship, and in point of fact every description of craft that plies between the Barbarian East and the Civilized West.
He had stood at the end of the deck, gazing back at Ireland until only the clouded head of a mountain could be seen, and then that too had been hidden. He turned and looked forward, and as he did so, he saw in the distance, low in the sea, the hulls of three ships of war. The mail-boat slowed down, as they approached, to let them pass.
Hence, he was honoring a cargo carrier with his presence instead of taking his ease upon a mail-boat. Captain Shreve must tell him all he knew about the "king." He was intensely interested in the subject. Splendid material, you know. That romantic legend of Waldon's arrival in the islands too good to be true, and certainly too good not to put into a book. Was Captain Shreve familiar with the tale?
And while there I lay, there came from the sea from the southwest in a lull of the wind breaking into the tender silence the blast of a steam whistle, deep, full-throated, prolonged. "Hist!" whispered Jacky. "Does you not hear?" Skipper Tommy stood me on my feet, and himself slowly rose, listening intently. "Lads," he asked, his voice shaking, "was it the mail-boat?" "No, zur!" the twins gasped.
Here, where the southwest winds prevail, the wind was ahead of them, and though it was not very strong, it would not do to defy it and the "Albatross" was sent along at a moderate speed, which, however, easily outstripped that of the fastest mail-boat. On the 13th of July she crossed the line, and the fact was duly announced to the crew.
He was a methodical man and had little time for the work at hand, for the mail-boat was waiting to carry him to another station. "The Houssas are all right, I suppose?" asked Sir Robert. "Discipline good no crime?" "The discipline is excellent, sir," replied Hamilton, heartily, "and we haven't had any serious crime for years."
The Major had added that one of the correspondents took them to White House, and, mentioning me by name, this young and aspiring satellite had blurted out that he knew me, and could doubtless overtake me at the mail-boat in the morning. The Commanding General authorised him to arrest me with the papers, and report at head-quarters.
For ocean greyhounds carrying mails and passengers the prime necessity of high speed has to a large extent obliterated any such separating line between waste and economy. It is, however, a mistake to imagine that the cargo steamer of the future will be in any sense a replica of the mail-boat of to-day.
Lee, saying that Mary would leave 'Richlands' last Tuesday, 10th inst., for 'Ravensworth, which I presume she did, as his letter was postmarked that day at Acquia Creek, and was probably mailed by him, or one of the boys, on putting her aboard the mail-boat.
He talked of the big mail-boat, and said he would like to cross on such a boat as that, and then he glanced at the possible advantage of having your own steam-yacht like the one which he said they had just passed, so near that you could see what a good time the people were having on board.
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