(Mr. Gordon) looked back sorrowfully from the Victoria at the ill-fated mail steamer while she remained in sight. "Yes," he observed, " it's hard to be turned out of house and homo, 80 to speak, on such short notice. I suppose sho's doomed now. I'm told that the first southerly wind will break her right up, and that the wind may voar round at any moment."
"Were you bu duty when she struck "No I had just come off, and was going to my cabin when I felt the shock of the impact, and then I heard a grating noise. I never imagined that we had struck a rock. I thought that the shaft had broken. The grating noise was just like
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