. William H. Seward's travels around the world. oreign TheTravancore, named from a province in British India, on the coastof Malabar, belongs to the Peninsular and Oriental line ofsteamers, usually abbreviated the P. and O. The familiar berth of the Colorado, at Wusung, was had sailed, an hour before, for Nagasaki. We were still ex-pressing our regret that we were to see her no more, when wepassed the bar. Standing southerly, however, we saw the majesticflag-ship before us, at rest in the open sea, with all her flags andstreamers flying, the admiral and officers on the quarte
. William H. Seward's travels around the world. oreign TheTravancore, named from a province in British India, on the coastof Malabar, belongs to the Peninsular and Oriental line ofsteamers, usually abbreviated the P. and O. The familiar berth of the Colorado, at Wusung, was had sailed, an hour before, for Nagasaki. We were still ex-pressing our regret that we were to see her no more, when wepassed the bar. Standing southerly, however, we saw the majesticflag-ship before us, at rest in the open sea, with all her flags andstreamers flying, the admiral and officers on the quarter-deck, andevery yard fully manned. Three hearty cheers greeted us from her A SCENE ON THE IMPERIAL CANAL. 229 six hundred seamen, her colors dropped, officers and men salutedus, and the faithful band gave us for farewell the same old nationalair with which it had greeted us on coining into Chinese Travancore lowered her flags, and every officer and passengerjoined us in acknowledging the kind and loyal demonstration of SCENE ON TIIE IMPESIAL CANAL. CHAPTER XIY. FROM SHANGHAI 10 HONG-KONG. Bad Weather.—Cold Weather.—Variety of Seamen.—The Ships Accommodations.—Hong-Kong.—Beautiful Scenery.—Old Acquaintances renewed.—Native and For-eign Population. On hoard the Travancore, Christmas-Day, 1870.—Give us nomore of the China Sea; give us, instead, the Pacific Ocean, theSea of Japan, the Yellow Sea; give us any water, if it be not theBay of Yeddo, and any Gulf, but the Gulf of Pe-chee-lee. A bleak northeaster, with rain, wind, and darkness, drove the cabin as soon as we had parted with the Colorado. When,during the day, the decks dried, the winds grew higher and theseas rougher, and we have remained prisoners below, until the morn-ing. This cold weather, on the verge of the tropics, is a surprise;the high winds compel rthe native shipping to hug the coast, andequally oblige foreign vessels to keep away from it. Thus, it hashappened that
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