Finally, The Bund came in sight, and the large crowd waiting on the Customs Jetty could be picked out. The Durmont d'Urville sailed up past the long and imposing line of foreign warships, and past a corpse floating grotesquely on its back near the Augusta, and then swung round to anchor at the French naval buoys.
Customs officers expedited e carrying-out of the normal formalin ties, and in a few moments wives and children were being greeted by the large crowd of husbands, fathers, relatives and friends who had been long. and anxiously awaiting their arrival Not a few of the latter were seen looking disappointedly for an expected face and asking whether it was not "ipóssible" or "probable" that not all the passengers from the Andre Lebon had been landed. They waited around in little clusters long after the last Shanghai-
250 Officers and Men of Capetown Going Home
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