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The Story of the Atlantic Telegraph
·
Henry M. Field
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The
fog
came
on
very
thick
about
eight
P.M.,
and
between
that
and
ten
we
were
constantly
exchanging
guns
and
burning
blue
lights
with
the
Terrible,
which,
with
the
Niger,
went
in
search
of
the
Lily,
station
ship.
The
Terrible
being
signalled
to
come
up
and
take
her
position,
informed
us
they
had
made
the
Lily
out,
and
that
she
bore
then
about
E.N.E.
distant
four
miles.
Later
in
the
night
Captain
Commerill
said
that
if
Captain
Anderson
would
stop
the
Great
Eastern,
he
would
send
the
surveyor
Mr.
Robinson,
R.
N.,
who
came
out
in
the
Niger,
on
board
of
us,
and
about
three
the
engines
were
slowed,
and
the
Terrible
shortly
afterwards
came
alongside
with
that
officer.
Catalina
light,
at
the
entrance
of
Trinity
Bay,
had
been
made
out
three
hours
before
this,
and
the
loom
of
the
coast
had
also
been
seen.
Fog
still
prevailing!
According
to
Mr.
Robinson's
account,
if
they
got
one
clear
day
in
seven
at
the
entrance
of
Trinity
Bay,
they
considered
themselves
fortunate.
Here
we
are
now
(six
A.M.),
within
ten
miles
of
Heart's
Content,
and
we
can
scarcely
see
more
than
a
ship's
length.
The
Niger,
however,
is
ahead,
and
her
repeated
guns
tell
us
where
we
are
with
accuracy.
Good
fortune
follows
us,
and
scarcely
has
eight
o'clock
arrived
when
the
massive
curtain
of
fog
raises
itself
gradually
from
both
shores
of
Trinity
Bay,
disclosing
to
us
the
entrance
of
Heart's
Content,
the
Albany
making
for
the
harbor,
the
Margaretta
Stevenson,
surveying
vessel,
steaming
out
to
meet
us,
the
preaerranged
pathway
all
marked
with
buoys
by
Mr.
J.
H.
Kerr,
R.
N.,
and
a
whole
fleet
of
fishing
boats
fishing
at
the
entrance.
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