sailing-yachts

Updated: June 14, 2025

Passenger steamers are seen flitting about with well-filled decks, noisy tug-boats puff and whistle while towing heavily laden barges, naval cutters propelled by dozens of white-clad oarsmen and steered by officers in dazzling uniforms, small sailing-yachts containing merry parties of both sexes glance hither and thither, all giving animation to the scene.

Maturin Murray Ballou - Foot-prints of Travel: or, Journeyings in Many Lands