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Her smoke-stack was so arranged that the upper parts could be let into the lower, so as not to be visible above the rail; and as the anthracite coal which she used evolved no smoke, she could not, at a short distance, be distinguished from a sailing-ship.
Travel will not reach it; for though here and there a rare sailing-ship is kept in a navy, for occasional instruction, otherwise they have passed away forever; and the exceptions are but curiosities reality has disappeared. They no longer have life, and are now but the specimens of the museum.
The port of Kronstadt was closed by ice for six months out of the twelve, and lay in such a position that no sailing-ship could leave it unless the wind blew from the east. There was so little salt in its waters that the ship timbers rotted in a very short time, and, besides, there were no oaks in the surrounding forests, and all such timber had to be brought from Kasan.
Finances being easy, Browning thought it a good time to take another look at Italy. Some of the best things he had written had been inspired by Venice and Asolo he would go again. And so he engaged passage on a sailing-ship for Naples. Shortly after Browning's return to London, in Eighteen Hundred Forty-four, he dined at Sergeant Talfourd's.
I can just recall, too, the deck of a ship which to my childish feet seemed vast but the William Brown was a sailing-ship of only 400 tons! in which we made the voyage home in 1856.
I had been used to steamers all my life, and it was difficult immediately to adjust myself to the absence of the propeller-thrust vibration. "Well, what do you think?" I asked Wada, who, like myself, had never made a sailing-ship voyage. He smiled politely. "Very funny ship. Very funny sailors. I don't know. Mebbe all right. We see." "You think trouble?" I asked pointedly.
It was on the 10th of May, so quickly did things move under the supervision of the bedridden captain, that the Raratonga, with Lestrange on board, cleared the Golden Gates, and made south, heeling to a ten-knot breeze. There is no mode of travel to be compared to your sailing-ship.
As long as you keep her propeller under water and take care, say, not to fling down barrels of oil on top of bales of silk, or deposit an iron bridge-girder of five ton or so upon a bed of coffee-bags, you have done about all in the way of duty that the cry for prompt despatch will allow you to do. The sailing-ship, when I knew her in her days of perfection, was a sensible creature.
But this is true my master's sailing-ship has gone, and his body with it and I know not where!" Ulrika surveyed him steadily with a slow, incredulous smile. After a pause, she said "Fidelity in a servant is good, Valdemar Svensen! I know you well I also know that a pagan shrinks from Christian burial.
The postmaster-general was to give the preference to such bidder as should propose to carry the mails in a steamship rather than a sailing-ship. Contractors were to turn their ships over to the Government upon demand for conversion into ships of war, the Government to pay therefor the fair full value, as ascertained by appraisers. Mills had transferred to the new organization.
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