Up against it in Nigeria . THE SUBMARINE.(By courtesy of tlie Daily Mirror.). TAKING TO THE BOATS. (By courtesy of the Daily Mirror.) THE FALABA 169 others in their difficulties. We sailed at 6 was my stable companion again; and,after a perfunctory meal and the exchange ofa few gloomy remarks, we retired to restbetimes. A cold grey March sky greeted us on rising,and we spent the usual first morning out tryingto kill time and keep warm. The passengersare always divided into two categories at thispartic^ar period of the voyage—those whopreserve a melancholy silence shunning their fe
Up against it in Nigeria . THE SUBMARINE.(By courtesy of tlie Daily Mirror.). TAKING TO THE BOATS. (By courtesy of the Daily Mirror.) THE FALABA 169 others in their difficulties. We sailed at 6 was my stable companion again; and,after a perfunctory meal and the exchange ofa few gloomy remarks, we retired to restbetimes. A cold grey March sky greeted us on rising,and we spent the usual first morning out tryingto kill time and keep warm. The passengersare always divided into two categories at thispartic^ar period of the voyage—those whopreserve a melancholy silence shunning their fellow-men, and those who assume an imitation, over-acted exuberance, supported, as a rule, by drymartinis. The latter procedure is generallyknown as just having one. At about I was sitting in the semicircularlounge at the top of the saloon stairs pretendingto read a book, when a doctor called Maplescame in and observed to a friend: Come andlook at the submarine ! or words to that wishing to have my leg pulled, but at thesame time not proposing to take any
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