But Phileas Fogg was a bold mariner, and knew how to maintain headway against the sea; and he kept on his course, without even decreasing his
steam. The Henrietta, when she could not rise upon the waves, crossed them, swamping her deck, but passing safely.
We had a good deal of trouble with
steam launches that morning.
Sir Launcelot got up
steam, he and I loaded up the kettle with unslaked lime and carbolic acid, with a touch of lactic acid added thereto, then filled the thing up with water and inserted the steam-spout under the canopy.
Thick clouds of
steam were pouring off the wreckage, and through the tumultuously whirling wisps I could see, inter- mittently and vaguely, the gigantic limbs churning the water and flinging a splash and spray of mud and froth into the air.
"Why, bless you, sir, it is in the
steam launch that he has gone.
We
steamed down to the foot of the harbor and came to anchor.
And I, the long time intimate of John Barleycorn, knew just what he promised me--maggots of fancy, dreams of power, forgetfulness, anything and everything save whirling washers, revolving mangles, humming centrifugal wringers, and fancy starch and interminable processions of duck trousers moving in
steam under my flying iron.
Similar facts were observed on the 23rd of July in the same year, in the Pacific Ocean, by the Columbus, of the West India and Pacific
Steam Navigation Company.
Then I started tull go out un the stream an' drop anchor--under me own
steam, of course.
Because of their
steam propulsion, the American ships were larger and with a more graceful outline.
He didn't mind, he said, the trouble of punching their blanked heads down there, blank his soul, but did the condemned sailors think you could keep
steam up in the God-forsaken boilers simply by knocking the blanked stokers about?
In a few moments the savory
steam came forth again, but with a different flavor, and in good time a fine cod-chowder was placed before us.