Identifier: withspeakercanno00moor (find matches)
Title: With Speaker Cannon through the tropics : a descriptive story of a voyage to the West Indies, Venezuela and Panama: containing views of the Speaker upon our colonial possessions
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Moore, J. Hampton (Joseph Hampton), 1864-1950
Subjects: Cannon, Joseph Gurney, 1836-1926
Publisher: Philadelphia, The Book print
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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all of the passengers had arrived, andthe Colonia, which had made two trips earlier in the day,was prepared for her last trip to the ship. It happened thatshe was loaded with all the provisions with which our larderon the Bluccher was to be replenished. There were liveturkeys and chickens, live green turtles of massive size,baskets of potatoes and tomatoes, and a fine assortment ofnative fruit, including the mango and the alligator pear.Many of the passengers also carried small bundles of nativefruit, which they expected to preserve until the end of the TllJ^ CITY 01^ NASSAU. 347 voyage. Among these were the sapodilla, the sour sop, thetamarind, and grape fruit and oranges galore. Royalpoinciana heans, bread fruit, twigs from the sea grape bush,specimens of the womans tongue, and orchids, whichabound in profusion in Nassau, were among the articlesthe gay party had collected. The clouds bore an ominous look as the gang-plank wasdrawn over the deck of the Colonia, but, sheltered in the
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ON THK coi^onia p.KrnRE the storm. harbor as we diad been, it did not occur to us how severea wind storm was then blowing beyond the bar. SenatorCurtis was the only member of the Congressional partywho was not with us. He had felt unwell in the morning,and had gone to the ship on one of the previous runs. Once over the bar we found it was no easy matter to getto the Bluechers side. Indeed, because of the wind andthe -dangerous reefs, the big ship was now anxiouslyawaiting our return, in order that she might heave anchor 34^ WITH spi:aki:r cannon through thi: tropics. at once for the open sea. The Colonia steamed gamelythrough the heavy waves, but instead of going under the leeof the steamer, her captain, because of the weakness, as Iafterwards learned, of one side of his vessel, concluded totake whatever thumping must ensue upon the windwardside. Evidently, our predicament was of interest to theBhiechers passengers, for those who were safely on boardleaned over the rail and shouted do

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