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Notes of a Journey From Cornhill to Grand Cairo by Mr. M.a. Titmarsh
Notes of a Journey From Cornhill to Grand Cairo by Mr Ma Titmarsh Author:William Makepeace Thackeray General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1888 Original Publisher: Routledge and sons Subjects: Middle East Mediterranean Region Europe, Southern Near East History / Ancient / General History / Asia / General History / Europe / General History / Middle East / General Political Science / Internatio... more »nal Relations / General Travel / Middle East / General Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: III. Tlie " Lady Mary Wood." Our week's voyage is now drawing to a close. We have just been to look at Cape Trafalgar, shining white over the finest blue sea. (We, who were looking at Trafalgar Square only the other day I) The sight of that cape must have disgusted Joinville and his fleet of steamers, as they passed yesterday into Cadiz Bay, and to-morrow will give them a sight of St. Vincent. One of their steam-vessels has been lost off the coast of Africa: they were obliged to burn her, lest the Moors should take possession of her. She was a virgin vessel, just out of Brest. Poor innocent! to die in the very first month of her union with the noble whiskered god of war ! We Britons on board the English boat received the news of the " Groenenland's " abrupt demise with grins of satisfaction. It was a sort of national compliment, and cause of agreeable congratulation. "The lubbers!" we said; "the clumsy humbugs ! there's none but Britons to rule the waves! " and BRITISH LIONS. 45 we gave ourselves piratical airs, and went down presently and were sick in our little buggy berths. It was pleasant, certainly, to laugh at Joinville's admiral's flag floating at his foremast, in yonder black ship, with its two thundering great guns at the bows and stern, its busy crew swarming on the deck, and a...« less