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The Story of the Atlantic Telegraph
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Henry M. Field
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CHAPTER
XVII.
RECOVERY
OF
THE
LOST
CABLE.
Though
the
Great
Eastern
was
still
lying
in
the
little
harbor
of
Heart's
Content,
casting
her
mighty
shadow
on
its
tranquil
waters,
she
was
not
"content"
with
her
amazing
victory,
but
sighed
for
another
greater
still.
Though
she
had
done
enough
to
be
laid
up
for
a
year,
still
she
had
one
more
test
of
her
prowess--to
recover
the
cable
of
1865,
which
had
been
lost
in
the
middle
of
the
Atlantic.
So
eager
were
all
for
this
second
trial
of
their
strength,
that
in
less
than
five
days
two
of
the
ships--the
Albany
and
the
Terrible--the
vanguard
of
the
telegraphic
fleet,
were
on
their
way
back
to
mid-ocean.
Though
it
was
only
Friday,
the
27th
of
July,
that
they
reached
land,
they
left
early
Wednesday
morning,
the
first
day
of
August.
The
Great
Eastern
was
detained
a
week
longer.
She
had
to
lay
in
immense
supplies
of
coal.
Anticipating
this
want,
six
ships
had
been
despatched
from
Cardiff,
in
Wales,
weeks
before,
to
await
the
arrival
of
the
fleet.
One
of
these
foundered
at
sea;
the
others
arrived
out
safely,
and
hardly
had
the
Great
Eastern
cast
anchor
before
they
were
alongside,
ready
to
fill
her
bunkers.
So
ample
was
the
provision,
that,
when
she
went
to
sea
a
few
days
after,
she
had
nearly
eight
thousand
tons
of
coal
on
board.
At
the
same
time
she
had
to
receive
some
six
hundred
miles
of
the
cable
of
1865,
which
had
been
shipped
from
England
in
the
Medway.
The
latter
was
now
brought
alongside,
and
the
whole
was
transferred
into
the
main
tank
of
the
Great
Eastern,
from
which
it
was
to
be
paid
out
in
case
the
lost
end
were
recovered.
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