Identifier: manuponseaorhist00good (find matches)
Title: Man upon the sea : or, a history of maritime adventure, exploration, and discovery, from the earliest ages to the present time ...
Year: 1858 (1850s)
Authors: Goodrich, Frank B. (Frank Boott), 1826-1894
Subjects: Discoveries in geography Voyages and travels
Publisher: Philadelphia : J.B. Lippincott & co.
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
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of the coil on the deck beneath. His work isdone; and, as the line passes out of his hands, he receives around of applause from the hands of the spectators, who, butfor those terrible navy rules, would have greeted him with acheer that would have done his heart good. As it is, theymust give vent to their feelings in some way; and the exclama-tions of Well done! Thats the fellow! Good boy, Paine!are not a bad compromise, after all. Besides, it might berather premature at this time to indulge in any triumphantexpression of feeling before we are even in sight of land. Upon the seventh day land was discovered from the masthead.It is now half-past two oclock, and we are entering TrinityBay at a speed of seven and a half knots an hour, paying outthe cable at a very slight increase on the same rate. Thecurve which it forms between the ship and the water provesthat there is little or no strain upon it, and proves also anotherthing,—that it can be run out at eight, nine, and, I believe, ten
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,* MAN UPON THE SEA. 553 miles with the greatest safety. This, however, as I have pre-viously stated, cannot be done with old cable that has beencoiled so often as to have a tendency to kink; and there is—ashas been already intimated—some of this kind which we shall beobliged to pay out before landing. A signal signifying all wellhas been received from the Agamemnon, which must now be onthe point of landing her cable at Valentia Bay, Ireland, which isabout sixteen hundred and forty miles from our present position.At eight oclock in the evening, while the Niagara was pro-ceeding up Trinity Bay and was yet some eighteen milesdistant from the landing-place, Mr. Field left the ship for thepurpose of visiting the telegraph station and sending a despatchto the United States. It was near two oclock in the morn-ing before he arrived at the beach; and, as it was quite dark, hehad considerable difficulty in finding the path that led up to thestation. There was1 no house in sight, and the wh

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