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The Story of the Atlantic Telegraph
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Henry M. Field
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"It
seemed
to
be
our
particular
ill-fortune
to
meet
with
head-winds
whichever
way
the
ship's
head
was
turned.
On
our
journey
out
we
had
been
delayed,
and
obliged
to
consume
an
undue
proportion
of
coal,
for
want
of
an
easterly
wind,
and
now
all
our
fuel
was
wanted
because
of
one.
However,
during
the
next
day
the
wind
gradually
went
around
to
the
south-west,
which,
though
it
raised
a
very
heavy
sea,
allowed
us
to
husband
our
small
remaining
store
of
fuel.
"At
noon
on
Saturday,
the
thirty-first
of
July,
observations
showed
us
to
have
made
good
one
hundred
and
twenty
miles
of
distance
since
noon
of
the
previous
day,
with
a
loss
of
about
twenty-seven
per
cent
of
cable.
The
Niagara,
as
far
as
could
be
judged
from
the
amount
of
cable
she
paid
out,
which,
by
a
previous
arrangement,
was
signalled
at
every
ten
miles,
kept
pace
with
us,
within
one
or
two
miles,
the
whole
distance
across.
During
the
afternoon
of
Saturday,
the
wind
again
freshened
up,
and
before
nightfall
it
again
blew
nearly
a
gale
of
wind,
and
a
tremendous
sea
ran
before
it
from
the
south-west,
which
made
the
Agamemnon
pitch
to
such
an
extent
that
it
was
thought
impossible
the
cable
could
hold
on
through
the
night;
indeed,
had
it
not
been
for
the
constant
care
and
watchfulness
exercised
by
Mr.
Bright,
and
the
two
energetic
engineers,
Mr.
Canning
and
Mr.
Clifford,
who
acted
with
him,
it
could
not
have
been
done
at
all.
Men
were
kept
at
the
wheels
of
the
machine
to
prevent
their
stopping
as
the
stern
of
the
ship
rose
and
fell
with
the
sea,
for,
had
they
done
so,
the
cable
must
undoubtedly
have
parted.
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