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Updated: May 16, 2025
Nineteen years later every sailing-ship had disappeared from the Hooghly, and in their place were rows of unsightly, rusty-sided iron tanks, with squat polemasts and ugly funnels vomiting black smoke. A tramp-steamer has its uses, no doubt, but it is hardly a thing of beauty. Ichabod! Ichabod! Calcutta is fortunate in having so fine a lung as the great stretch of the Maidan.
He was oblivious of the strange scene silhouetted against the night behind him, standing out as distinctly as though it were a picture thrown on a sheet from a magic-lantern slide a circle of light surrounding a drifting and rusty-sided ship on which tumult had turned into sudden silence.
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