MARSENA II
Next to the War, the chief topic of interest and conversation in Octavius at this…
MARSENA IV
During the fortnight or three weeks following the departure of Battery G it became clear…
MARSENA V
It was in this same May, not more than a week after the momentous episode…
MARSENA VI
It was a dark, soft, summer night in Virginia, that of the 1st of July.…
WAITING FOR A SHIP.
The Shipping Office in Tower Hill is a place where seamen, firemen, stokers, and others…
“TRY FOR HER IN FIFTY.”
The following extraordinary story was told to me some years ago by the commander of…
THE TRANSPORT “PALESTINE.”
In the spring of 1853 the hired transport Palestine, which had been fitting out at…
THE PLEASURES OF YACHTING.
Steam has played sad havoc with the beauty of our naval and merchant vessels; but,…
THE PERILS OF HUMANITY.
“Sir,” said a middle-aged master of a merchantman to me a few days since, laying…
THE LAZARETTE OF THE “HUNTRESS.”
I stepped into the Brunswick Hotel in the East India Docks for a glass of…