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A Short American Tramp in the Fall of 1864
A Short American Tramp in the Fall of 1864 Author:John Francis Campbell Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER II. LIVERPOOL TO HALIFAX. With divided affections, dragged forward by sympathy with vagrant icebergs held by the big glacier and by the strong men ... more »who stand by it, and anxious to steer his own course, the writer started for Labrador in search of facts to be added to a store gathered elsewhere during twenty years. The following pages may help to swell the pile on which truth must finally rest. So now for the journal. Steamer Europa, July 10, 1864 Off Ireland. I found at the station in a state of mind about catching me in America. He might as well hope to find a needle in a hay-loft. I shall leave him letters at Halifax, and elsewhere, and if he chooses to follow me, I shall be very glad to see him. I got to Liverpool at 3.15, and slept till eight. At ten, I got on board the Satellite, and boarded the Europa with the rest of the passengers, and all their luggage; and thereupon we sailed. The Great Eastern was getting up steam to goStewards' Parade. 31 to London for the Atlantic cable. We expected a race, but she did not start so soon as we did. The Liverpool lads were firing great guns at a target, and we gradually slanted across their line of fire as we passed out. The shot came skipping across our bows, and then right after us, within a couple of hundred yards. It was curious to watch first the smoke, then the heavy plunge, and long afterwards the distant boom of the big gun a couple of miles away. The Liverpool banks, and the Welsh coast, were covered with haze, and we saw nothing till we got near Holyhead. There is a haze over the land now, and we can see nothing to-day, but the weather is delightful. The sun is shining, and a soft breeze blowing right after us; the sea blue and crisp, and the lazy old ship rolling quietly along from side to side with ...« less