. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . l keptplowing the waves with a dark bank ofcloud in front, out of which darted bril-liant flashes of lightning. The pleasure ofthe day for deck loungers was over, andthe cabins got filled up with readers, letterwriters and diary scribblers. By the timethat the fog which accompanied the storm had a crowd of Christian young women of pious with many others who start on aforeign trip for the first time, they keepdiaries, which are written up with greatcare for a few days
. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . l keptplowing the waves with a dark bank ofcloud in front, out of which darted bril-liant flashes of lightning. The pleasure ofthe day for deck loungers was over, andthe cabins got filled up with readers, letterwriters and diary scribblers. By the timethat the fog which accompanied the storm had a crowd of Christian young women of pious with many others who start on aforeign trip for the first time, they keepdiaries, which are written up with greatcare for a few days, and then graduallydropped. The outdoor games on ship-board consist principally of throwing ropequoits and playing shuffle-board, whichconsists of pushing wooden disks upon ahop-scotch figure. Sometimes they havetugs of war, in which the two opposingsides tug on a slout rope, the side thatdrags the other being the winner. It is arough game, but makes lots of fun. An ocean liner is a sort of small worldin itself and represents fairly well thevarious characteristics of the greater world. Photo by A. H. Chamberlain. A M.\ZE OF TR.\CKS—BOSTON & ALBANY EXPRESS. Had cleared away, we were out of sight ofland. Next day introduced the usual monotonyof a sea voyage in good weather. A bigocean steamship is a good place to noticethe determined search for amusement thatprevails among the Western races whenthey have nothing to do. When a ship iscarrying a load of Asiatics or Arabs, thepeople are seen to settle down into listlessapathy. They pass the time in what ap-pears to be a waking sleep. It is differ-ent with European races, which includeall travelers from the American the novelty of starting is over, near-ly everybody proceeds to find some sortof amusement, and they keep it up duringthe whole voyage. There are some whosuccumb to laziness and appear to sleepthrough the whole voyage when they arenot eating; but the big majority are read-ing, writing or playing games. O
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