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Towards five oclock a small steamer, intended as a shore-boat for the Great He easily collected ninety-six players, including several professed gamblers The Great Eastern struck amidships, and, supported by no sail, rolled frightfully The water from the skies and sea mingled in a dense fog It was a Canadian, the Honourable MacAlpine, who undertook the management So that, although the pressure of the boilers had risen, the ships speed All these good people seemed to have hats and boots of a dazzling brightness Of these six masts, supported by shrouds and metallic back-stays, the second It was a three-mast ship of about five or six hundred tons The Great Eastern swung round with the tide; all was now clear During this last day, however, little by little the gangways were cleared At the bows was an engine of sixty-six horse-power The 25th still saw the deck strewn with all kinds of tools Had this steam-ship been abandoned by her crew? This was now the prevailing It was the reverend gentleman of whom I have before spoken a little To weigh anchor under these circumstances required considerable exertion What did he see in this liquid mirror, which gave scope to the most capricious I went towards the fore-part of the vessel, the staircase had not yet been I saw also piles of Bibles, which were to be distributed in the church The sea was magnificent and resplendent beneath the first rays of a spring Her steel hull was so heavy that the davits to which it was attached bent On the spacious mastheads of the second and third masts a band of soldiers My friend Dean Pitferge was near him, his quick little eyes running over