the fog has fallen, and the great
roaring whistle calls up the distant answering notes all around us.
Shall we, or shall we not find the buoy?
'JULY 13. - All yesterday we lay in the damp dripping fog, with
whistles all round and guns firing so that we might not bump up
against one another. This little delay has let us get our reports
into tolerable order. We are now at 7 o'clock getting the cable
end again, with the main cable buoy close to us.'
A TELEGRAM OF JULY 20: 'I have received your four welcome letters.
The Americans are charming people.'
VI.
And here to make an end are a few random bits about the cruise to
Pernambuco:-
'PLYMOUTH, JUNE 21, 1873. - I have been down to the sea-shore and
smelt the salt sea and like it; and I have seen the HOOPER pointing
her great bow sea-ward, while light smoke rises from her funnels
telling that the fires are being lighted; and sorry as I am to be
without you, something inside me answers to the call to be off and
doing.
'LALLA ROOKH. PLYMOUTH, JUNE 22. - We have been a little cruise in
the yacht over to the Eddystone lighthouse, and my sea-legs seem
very well on.
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