The stern of the ship had swang round to the West, and the wind was right on side, thus enabling; operations to be conducted in some calmer water Without this protection would have been well nigh Mr. Beevor, Chief Officer, and Second Officer, then suecessfully established communication with the shore by means of cables. By a bridle attached to these cables the boats were ferried across from ship to shore, 'The Parser (Mr. J. Watt) and. the ship' stewards worked, in the words of a senyer, like Britons." First the women and children were saved, though some ies elected to stand back till their hus-nds' turn arrived. Tt was a strange scone as witnessed in the stron; glare of the ele ig ich all night. long, thanks'to the excellent work of the Eu: myers, who under the able guidance of the Chief Engineer (Mr. Smith) never left their posts, lit up sea and shore alike by its bright gleam, and showed the absence of those dangers which darkness might have suggested. The ladies vied with the men in calm courage and absence of complaint. The whule work was personally superintended by Captain de Home, and ly 3a.m. on the 25th March the landing of the passengers was completed without a single casualty of any kind.
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