1 5 10 20 30 1 5 10 20 30 1 5 10 20 30 1 5 10 20 30 1 5 10 20 30 1 5 10 20 30 1 5 10 20 30 1 5 10 20 30 1 5 10 20 30
At this moment numerous groups appeared at the doors of the cabins In four days, at the latest, the Great Eastern must reach New York harbour; At the same time we had reason to hope that these two poor creatures would He easily collected ninety-six players, including several professed gamblers Portmanteaus and bags came in and out of my cabin; an unusual hubbub reigned At six oclock next morning, after passing a sleepless night The tender had disembarked her crew; I stepped on to the fluted iron steps After twenty passages from England to America, one of which was marked These magnificent rooms are lighted by side sky-lights, supported on elegant-gilded There alone, and leaning over the taffrail, we surveyed the great expanse I, with head upturned, and my body thrown back, surveyed the wheels of At last I reached the stern of the steam-ship, and the place I had already The steamers course had been slightly altered in the night She is capable of receiving 10,000 passengers, so that out of the 373 principal After having passed the great hatchway of the engine-rooms I left my cabin, and helping myself with hands and feet through the billows But my imagination carried me no farther; all these things I did indeed Therefore they were obliged to abandon the steamer, but there still remained The 25th still saw the deck strewn with all kinds of tools These unhappy men, killed and wounded, were only tools, which could be I went towards the fore-part of the vessel, the staircase had not yet been Her steel hull was so heavy that the davits to which it was attached bent I did not understand at first for what it was intended, but it appeared On the spacious mastheads of the second and third masts a band of soldiers But in this respect the steward knew no more than I did, and he left me At half-past ten the Captain rose, and the service began; he read a chapter In order to raise the anchors it was only necessary to send the steam from It would have been well if the service had concluded with the reading; It was for this delicate operation that the engineers intended the engine At the base they measure 43 inches in diameter, and the largest (the main-mast) This costly operation accomplished, a long crack in her exterior plates The sea between us and the coast was of a dull green shade; there was a The engine-rooms were full of steam; leaning over the hatchway The execution could not fail to be worthy of the work After having left the Doctor, I spent the rest of the day with Fabian; The muddy waters of the Mersey were lashed into foam by the slowly revolving The slate-coloured sea broke in great foamless billows My friend Dean Pitferge was near him, his quick little eyes running over Before lunch several of the passengers organized a pool, which could not To weigh anchor under these circumstances required considerable exertion In this position the deck of the tender was only on a level with the load There was no heaving to speak of, but the rolling was dreadful At two oclock the fog grew dense again, the wind fell and rose at the same One would have taken her for a small island, hardly discernible in the Had this steam-ship been abandoned by her crew? This was now the prevailing When the first attempt to lay the Atlantic cable had failed On leaving the station, I went to the Adelphi Hotel The tender, already some distance off, was hailed, and in a few minutes Seen from the side, these wheels looked narrow and contracted