Bark canoe and great steamer alike leave no lasting trail; but to him who reads the history of our region, this fair waterway at our door is thronged as a street; and every secret traveler thereby is worthy of his attention.
Pittsburg was reached March 2d; and, after a delay of four days, during which he sold his horse for $30, we find our traveler embarked on the new steamer Gen.
When the steamer arrived in the Seine it was found expedient to let the young missionary die where he lay.
For to this point all things over the world converge by a vast web of wire, railroad, coach road, and steamer track.
Somehow, she lost interest in her reading and her driving, and spent the most of that first week after the funeral in the steamer chair on the Ranch House piazza.
That night, she shivered as she sat in the steamer chair; and she drew Wayland's coat around her; but it was not to delirious thoughts.
After mid-day meal, she ensconced herself in a steamer chair on the piazza facing the mountain; but her book lay face downward.
One night as she sat in the steamer chair, a cold wind came down from the Pass.
So he shipped on board a small Mediterranean steamer as fireman, and disappeared, no one knew where.
I was in a steamer in the Baltic in the year '34, if I mistake not.
I shall never forget the look of agony he cast whilst the steamer hurried past him.
As we passed the former, some of the Spaniards on board our steamer became boastful at the expense of the English.
Early on the twenty-fourth, I embarked for Seville in the small Spanish steamer the Betis: the morning was wet, and the aspect of nature was enveloped in a dense mist, which prevented my observing surrounding objects.
Sunday morning came, and I was on board thesteamer by six o'clock.
Presently a grimy little paddle-steamer came alongside, through the clustering swarm of barges, and was made fast ahead and astern.
The unfortunate pilot was kept on board five days, and finally put on board a homeward-bound Mediterranean steamer that we spoke half-way across the Bay.
While working on board a large steamer of this same employ lying in Colon, there was a terrific explosion on board--whether of gunpowder or nitro-glycerine I have forgotten.
By Christmas Eve there was not a steamer left in the bay, and an aching sense of discontent manifested itself all through the fleet.
Our captain left us for Mobile City in the same steamer that brought them, returning with the first load of cotton, but only to bid us farewell.
I was on my way to the steamer when the accident occurred which detained me overnight.
American steamer down channel, and have hoisted the Spanish flag.
A steamer was just smoking there; farther down, by the mouth of the river, might be seen a couple of old brigs taking in their cargoes.
That evening Roennaug's steamer ticket was bought; for the sum was complete.
One morning after a sleepless night, Magnhild took her accustomed walk to the wharf to watch the steamer come in.
The steamer struck on a rock, and the whole party had to disembark.
Consequently in about half an hour, during which the steamer had taken her departure, we found ourselves the inmates of the principal salon in the Locanda della Corona.
The grating of the boat against the side of the steamer seemed to rouse him from his apathy, and he slowly ascended the ladder.
Whoever wishes to make the acquaintance of this primitive people, will do well to embark on board the Austrian Lloyd's Company's steamer from Trieste to Cattaro.
A glorioussteamer it is that George, more like a floating palace than a boat, as it goes skimming along as lightly and smoothly as a swan.
The noble beast had recovered from the severe blow it had received, and had now approached the steamer towards which it cast such a supplicating tearful look, that the hearts of the ladies were touched with compassion.
The steamer had just entered the bay when a boat shot out from under the wood on the left bank, and greatly increased the romantic character of the scene.
It was impossible to spare Richards more than three days, and at six o'clock on the morning of the fourth, we went on board the steamer Alexandria.
It was a picturesque and interesting sight to observe the two boats describing a sort of circle on the broad ruddy stream, while the steamer rounding to, formed in a manner the base of the operation, and cut off the stag's retreat.
At the same moment there came a derisive whistle from The Firefly, and they saw the great tramp steamer slowly moving down stream, increasing her speed with almost every revolution of the screw.
On the same day that that steamer with the mummy on board arrived," was Random's odd reply.
He got it for nine hundred pounds, the Professor told me, and is bringing it back in The Diver--that's the same tramp steamer in which he went to Malta.
That is perfectly true, and my visit was paid for the same reason as I followed the steamer to London--that is, I acted on behalf of Don Pedro.
This was done, and what happened after the mummy left the trampsteamer was known to everyone, through the medium of the press.
They stood on the heights watching the pretty little steamer making for South America.
He then sent Bolton to Malta in a tramp steamer for the sake of cheapness, and now expects him back with the Green Mummy.
So it was apparent that Inspector Date had not much opinion of tramp-steamer skippers.
But when he returned to Pierside he found a letter waiting him--so he told me--giving him command of a four thousand ton trampsteamer called The Firefly.
Early the next morning Parson Dan and Rod took the berries to the wharf in the carriage, in time to catch the first steamer of the day.
When at last the steamer did arrive, and the gang-planks had been run out, the scouts strained their eyes in an effort to find out who were coming ashore.
As the steamer drew near and gave forth two raucous blasts, a band on board began to play the National Anthem.
As they were seated upon a log, thinking it about time to go back to the steamer lying at the wharf where they were to have dinner, Captain Josh approached, and lifted his hat.
It seemed to Rod that the steamer would never reach Hillcrest wharf.
They had been waiting for him for some time, and were quite anxious, as the steamer had been up for over an hour.
She had taken the earlysteamer the next morning for the city, so they said.
The last sign of winter had now departed, and all knew that in a few hours the first steamer of the season would be on her way up-river.
He might have caught an outbound steamer and been well out of their clutches before now.
When we were two hours out I came upon him in the act of dropping overboard a steamer cushion made of American flags.
His sleep, however, was not undisturbed, for all night long he imagined himself to be an American locomotive towing an English steamer across the Atlantic, and crashing into several icebergs on the way.
I guess that's what I want," muttered a boy, who was comparing the printed slip in his hand with the above notice, conspicuously displayed from the yard of a huge ocean steamer alongside one of the North River piers at New York.
The little steamer had some difficulty in making a landing.
They motored down to Wood's Hole, and boarded the Sankaty, while Randy, stranded at New Bedford, was told there would not be another steamer out until the next day.
Defn: A whaleback steamer with a hatch coaming, usually about seven feet high, extending almost continuously fore and aft.
Defn: A freightsteamer having a high hatch coaming extending almost continuously fore and aft, but not of whaleback form at the sides.
Moved or propelled by sails; -- said of any vessel with her sail set, but especially of a steamer using her sails only, as distinguished from one under steam.
The little steamer that recently had begun to compete with the Indian canoes in the traffic of the river, and the carrying of passengers, did not dare to attempt to ascend it.
We travelled by steamer from Seattle to Portland, thence by a succession of steamers as far as Wallulla.
We are only an hour's ride by cars andsteamer from San Francisco.
He had been mining in the snow mountains, far up in British Columbia, and joined us to go down on the steamer to Colville.
The current is so strong there, that it takes from four to six hours for the steamer to struggle up against it, and only one minute to come down.
The writer happened to be on the Cleveland steamer with the returning party, and had occasion to notice that the amateurs were too busily engaged in writing up their notes to thoroughly enjoy Mr. King's waggish allusions to "sea-sickness.
Now swallows soar far up in the sky, the doves make wild, uncertain flights above the steeples, and the hoarse trumpet of the steameragain calls for recognition.
The trumpeting of the steamer comes from the bay, as though some lone sea-monster called aloud for companionship.
The captain of the tramp steamer Orient told him the same tale he had told the other reporters: he had picked up a man at sea.
The captain on that tramp steamer may have lied from beginning to end.
I think, for my part, that both Orts and Hargreave are dead, and that the man picked up by the trampsteamer Orient was riding some other balloon.
The captain of the tramp steamer Orient, by the way, was seen with a roll of money.
One more delay on the voyage; the steamer stopped near the Blue Grotto, that such of the passengers as wished might visit it before landing.
We watched the steamer across from there; we were up on the road to Anacapri, yonder.
At last the steamer shakes itself free from the allurements of Mazagan and steers almost due west to clear the reef, which, jutting out about six miles, makes Mazagan the least exposed of all the open harbours on the coast.
Back to the steamer in a boat, and at the waterport we pass a group of Jews washing themselves, in preparation for a feast.
We might, for all the disturbance we are making, be moving forward in a bark canoe, and not in an oceansteamer drawing twenty-five feet of water.
He was from Detroit, and for the first three days remained lashed to his steamer chair like a mummy, with nothing showing but a blue nose and closed eyelids.
Those who had an ear for music picked up their steamer chairs and moved to windward; but this young man, being half dead and firmly lashed to his place, was unable to save himself.
The loneliness of the North Atlantic, where an iceberg stands for land, and only an occasional trampsteamer rests the eye, is as different to this sea as a railroad journey over the prairie is to the jaunt from New York to Washington.
Another woman telegraphed from Shropshire saying that baby was better, and that she would follow by the first steamer on Sunday.
While the steamer was drawing up to her berth, he saw Count Edouard Marigny among the few passengers on deck.
Then Cynthia did flash an amused glance at him, but he was watching a small steamer puffing against the tide, and his face was adamant.
Another young Scotchman, Mr. Dundas, whom I knew quite well through the Buchanans, embarked for his native land on board the steamer President.
