Year: 1878




the channel the sky became overcast. She met stiff
chopping seas, which did not seriously disturb the
vessel, though it sent Her Royal Highness to her
boudor, where she spent the afternoon recovering
from the fatigues of the morning and the previous
night. Lord Lorne spent the afternoon on deck
and went to bed early. At Moville, Ireland
the Sarmatian anchored in Lough Foye. and
there. during the day, they received the
deputation. and spent the time already
told yon in the HERALD cable despatch Of the 18th
inst. At halfpast six o'clock on Friday night the
mails were taken on board but very heavy gale
was blowing, exactly announced by the dispatches
from the HERALD Weather Burean to London. it
determined not to go to until the storm had
what subsidized.


UPON THE STORMY MAIN.


At half-past eleven the anchor was weighed and out
the ship went to sea. Then came the trial of royal
courage Beref Of the protection of the land. the
sarmatan found tempest of exceeding fury. A
heavy was running, which caused the ship
to labor heavily On tho next day Saturday the
was still heavy driven by gale from the northeast,
when placed everybody Dut the veterans on
board temporarily under medical treatment and con-
signed both the Marquis and the Princess to the
most recesses of their berths The Princess suffered
dreadfully, but bore her illness with patience and
tho gale began to abate. though the
was still high and the ships motion scarcely
less dsagreeable. Sunday but little less
stormy weather. The wind, north northeast, blew
fearfuly times and the took the vessel her
| beam. The next morning broke bright and fair.
with small areas Of light winds on the water which
became less restless. and lapsed into long, lazy
swells.


HIS ExcELLEScY AT DIVINE SERVICE


Divine service was held in the saloon at halfpast
ten A. NJ. the ships surgeon reading the prayers.
Lord Lorne appeared, looking somewhat the worse
for wind and weather, and the Princess did not
appear at all Monday another bad
day. breeze from tho southeast gradually
hauled to the westward increasing to terrific gale
thought by the officers of the ship to be the other
side of the storm which reached the Irish coast on
the 14th inst. The glass suddenly fell to 2s.10
and the temperature at time MP to
SO degrees Fahrenheit. The tempest grew with such
rapidty that the sails blown to ribbons before
they could be taken in AND the decks were swept by
sea after sea with frghtful violence The port side
of the smoking room crushed in by "a twenty
ton billow," and that and the al
joining ladies' cabin flooded with water. Glass
was shvered to fragments in the saloon and every
thing movable thrown about in the widest
fusion The motion was violent that it was found
necessary to confine the patent beds in the Royal
staerooms there not sufficient space to allow
them free motion. The Princess suffered exceedingly
all through this day, and only able to leave her
room for short time while her bed was being ar
ranged. The Marquis deck after the storm
had lcsscned, and braced himself and watched the
seas


II think" said he ''tha this is tho best place for
discipline"


COMING on DECK.


Tuesday was fne Smiling faces appeared on deck,
though the Princess. who had caught cold
and was confined to her bed not
among the promenaders. Lord Iorne was
up and doing, and his piper favored the
few aloft with Scotch "skirl." on Wednesday Her
Royal Highness still i'll to leave her room but
the Marquis appeared and amused himself by trying


to Ash up nicdusm and other marine aniinalcue with


Indifferent The piper played again.
and the tunes "rhe Canpbells Are Coming" "Ali the
Blue Bonnets Are Over the Border" and other
tmc-honcred Highland airs were given. 70 the won
der OF all but Gaelic Thursday the wind blew
fresh again from the southeast, imparting 70 the
ship eaping motion, not pleasant to bad
sailors among which the Princess Louise had finally
to be rcckoned. Her brave attempt to rise in the
morning brought back all her previous Riddness
and headache and had to be abandoned Her
husband after staying awhile by her bedside
went on deck with some OF the other ladies OF
the party. whose compilations bced their plucky
efforts TO appear The piper. whose spirits were
not dscomposed during the voyage, played merrily
for all Of them. and His EScellency caught seagull
in the afternoon. After making very successful
drawing OF 1t he humancly released the astonished
bird at dusk and 1t quickly disappeared on Friday
the Princess was better. As that usually unucky day
grew on 1t became fortunate for
her. though the weather overcast and unpleasant
She did not however gladden. the rest OF the passen.
gers by going deck, which His Lordshp
paced for hours, after the Newfoundland
fog had settled into rain. The storm which
VISITED tho Nova Scotia coast last night appears not to
have disturbed tho sarmatian at all. This morning