This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1896 edition. Excerpt: ... A Run Ashore at Queenstown. PUEENSTOWN is the entrance for many Americans to Europe, --the point of their initiation into scenes read of and mentally pictured, but yet to be tried by the light of personal experience. It is the first page in the book of foreign travel; and it is often the last of the ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1896 edition. Excerpt: ... A Run Ashore at Queenstown. PUEENSTOWN is the entrance for many Americans to Europe, --the point of their initiation into scenes read of and mentally pictured, but yet to be tried by the light of personal experience. It is the first page in the book of foreign travel; and it is often the last of the same volume, --a place of meeting and farewell, where the ocean voyage practically begins and ends. Those who have friends bound to Europe look for its name with much anxiety in the telegraphic columns of their newspapers; and they are relieved by seeing among the marine news the brief paragraph which tells them in formal words like these that the steamer for which they have been waiting has reached her destination: --"Queenstown, Friday. The steamer Campania arrived here this morning, and, having landed all mails and some passengers, proceeded for Liverpool immediately." On board the ship herself this famous port of call is also the subject of much speculation, and the probabilities as to when it will be reached occupy no small part of the abundant leisure of the voyage. A miniature chart of the North Atlantic on a scale so diminished that a pen-line of an inch indicates three or four hundred miles is hung in the companionway, and from day to day the vessel's course and position are marked upon it. It is taken away from its place into the chief officer's room for a few minutes at noon, and when it is replaced a crowd of passengers surround the little frame in which it is hung, and are grateful for the pledge which the extremity of the ink line, with its note of latitude and longitude, gives that they are somewhere and not nowhere, as the similarity of the view day after day would lead them to think. The line has its beginning at Sandy Hook;...
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