The ship is now so deep,
that the men are to be turned out of their aft hold, and the
remainder coiled there; so the good ELBA'S nose need not burrow too
far into the waves. There can only be about 10 or 12 miles more,
but these weigh 80 or 100 tons.
'July 5.
'Our first mate was much hurt in securing a buoy on the evening of
the 2nd. As interpreter [with the Italians] I am useful in all
these cases; but for no fortune would I be a doctor to witness
these scenes continually. Pain is a terrible thing. - Our work is
done: the whole of the six-wire cable has been recovered; only a
small part of the three-wire, but that wire was bad and, owing to
its twisted state, the value small. We may therefore be said to
have been very successful.'
II.
I have given this cruise nearly in full. From the notes, unhappily
imperfect, of two others, I will take only specimens; for in all
there are features of similarity and it is possible to have too
much even of submarine telegraphy and the romance of engineering.
And first from the cruise of 1859 in the Greek Islands and to
Alexandria, take a few traits, incidents and pictures.
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