Another horse died from inanition, having eaten nothing since he came on board. It was a cause of much disappointment to us that we had not passed it earlier, as we hoped to have conveyed to our friends at home the news of our safe arrival thus far. For some hours previously we were in sight of the Spanish coast and, notwithstanding the lateness of the hour, the clear atmosphere and brilliant moon enabled us to discern the town of Gibraltar and the Rock rising behind it. At ten o'clock to-night we arrived off Gibraltar. – We signalled a vessel which, after much delay, replied that she was the "Blundel," from Portsmouth, bound to Gallipoli. – The wind still very quiet, and our ship hardly making any way. The wind had dropped to a dead calm and our good ship, as though resting after her late effort, dozed lazily along at barely two knots an hour Towards evening, we saw several whales and porpoises, and phosphorescent lights gleamed like stars on the calm, dark sea. – How unlike the quiet Sundays at home! How sadly we thought of them – of pleasant walks to church, through sunny fields and shady lanes! After we had read the service, Henry and I went on deck, and sat there quietly. I heartily thank God, who brought us safely through last night's gale.Īlthough weakened almost to delirium by sea-sickness and awed by the tremendous force of wind and sea, I could not but exult in the magnificent sailing of our noble ship, which bounded over the huge waves like a wild hunter springing at his fences, and breasted her gallant way at the rate of sixteen knots an hour. The groans of the boy, who was lying in one of the cabins, and the gloom caused by the death of our horses, threw us all into depressed spirits, which were not cheered by looking at the ugly, broken mast aloft. During the night the gale had fearfully increased, and the morning sun found two of our poor horses dead. – Weak and nervous, I staggered up on deck, to see it strewn with spars, ropes, and blocks. I, sick and almost helpless in my cabin, was told the disastrous news that both the mizen-top and main-top gallant-masts were carried away that fragments of the wreck – masts, ropes, and spars – strewed the deck: one poor fellow was lying seriously injured, having broken his leg, and crushed the bone. – The breeze, which had been gradually freshening during yesterday, increased last night. – After making a few purchases necessary for our comfort during the voyage, we embarked about three o'clock on board the "Shooting Star," lying in the Plymouth dockyard and towards evening, amid indescribable hurry, confusion, and noise, we weighed our anchor, and dropped down the river, where we lay till three o'clock on Wednesday morning and then, with a fair and gentle breeze, and every prospect of a prosperous voyage, we stood out to sea.įriday, 28 th. We reached the Royal Hotel at Plymouth at midnight, after a bitterly cold journey. The near approach of this long voyage, and the prospect of unknown trials and hardships to be endured for I know not how long, overwhelmed me at the last moment and the remembrance of dear friends left behind, whom I never more might return to see, made me shrink most nervously from the new life on which I was to embark.
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– Left the New London Inn at Exeter at ten o'clock in the evening, with sad heart and eyes full of tears. "The sails were fill'd, and light the fair winds blew,Īnd fast the white rocks faded from our view,Īnd soon were lost in circumambient foam."
Kind interest manifested in it by many of my friends.ĭ ISEMBARKATION AND E NCAMPMENT AT V ARNA Publishing it nor should I have done so now, had it not been for the When this Journal was first commenced I had no intention whatever of Remark, thinking it best to allow the facts to speak for themselves.
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I have endeavoured to keep free from comment or Possible in the words of my informant, in letters which I did not Have always put down information as I received it, as nearly as
It was kept under circumstances of great difficulty. Reigns solely in the breast of every man."ĬHIVALROUS VALOUR AND THEIR HEROIC FORTITUDE,Īccompanied her husband, an officer in the 8th Hussars, who leftĮngland, with his regiment, on the breaking out of the war, and she Now thrive the armourers, and Honour's thought Now all the youth of England are on fire.Īnd silken dalliance in the wardrobe lies London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1856 (Second Edition).įROM THE DEPARTURE OF THE ARMY FROM ENGLAND IN APRIL 1854, Journal Kept During The Russian War: From The Departure Of The Army From England In April 1854, To The Fall Of Sebastopol.īy Frances Isabella Locke Duberly (1829-1903).