Under a Tropical Sky: A Journal of First Impressions of the West Indies (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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My berth was in a cabin in the lower fore-saloon. Lower Victoria Square we christened it before we had been long at sea. It was a long way from the saloon; but it was close to the engines, and therefore in the steadiest part of the ship. The only objection to it was that it was just underneath the shoot whence they discharged the ashes and cinders into the sea and as they performed that operation every four hours, night and day, it was apt to become annoying. They made a great noise over it, and the sound of the ashes running down the shoot was like nothing so much as a heavy shower of walking-sticks and marbles on the roof of one's cabin. The noises on board for the first few days are. Disquieting, to say the least of it one soon gets accustomed to them, however; but after dark the shouts of the sailors, the whistling of the boatswain, the grind ing of the engines, with every now and then the hang of a cabin doors which has been left ajar, or the thud of a heavy wave against the side of the ship, make up a total of sounds the meaning of which is quite uncertain to the unaccustomed traveller, and which, for all you know to the contrary, may betoken great disaster.

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