30 AN AMERICAN FARMER IN ENGLAND. 



white spots took dark roofs, and coining to Point Linos, a tele- 

 graph station was pointed out ; our signal was hoisted, and in 

 five minutes we had spoken our name to a man in Liverpool. 

 We had just begun to distinguish the hedge-rows, when there was 

 a sudden flash of light, disclosing the cottage windows, and 

 Charley, looking east, exclaimed, "THE SUN OF THE OLD 

 WORLD." 



A long, narrow, awkward, ugly thing, some thought a cross 

 of a canal boat with a Mystic fishing-smack with a single short 

 mast, a high-peaked mainsail, a narrow staysail, coming to the 

 stem-head, and without any bowsprit ; so, out from the last fog- 

 bank, like an apparition, comes the pilot-boat. Directly she 

 makes more sail, and runs rapidly towards us. Our yatchman- 

 passenger, coming on deck, calls her by name, and says that she 

 is considered a model, and that a portrait of her has been pub- 

 lished. To say the right thing of her, she does look staunch and 

 weatherly now, the sort of craft altogether, if he were confined to 

 her tonnage, and more mindful of comfort than of time, that one 

 might choose to make a winter's cruise in off Hatteras, or to bang 

 through the ice after Sir John Franklin. The pilot she has this 

 moment sent aboard of us, does not, in his appearance, contrast 

 unfavorably with our own pilots. He is an intelligent, burly, 

 harsh-voiced Englishman a trustworthy looking sort of a man, 

 only rather too dressy for his work. He brings o news ; pilots 

 never do. When we took on board the New York pilot, in my 

 passage from the East Indies, we had had no intelligence from 

 home for more than six months. The greatest news the pilot had 

 for us, turned out to be that another edition of Blunt's Coast 

 Pilot was out I contrived to keep myself within earshot of him 

 and the captain, as they conversed for half an hour after he came 

 on our deck, and this was all I could learn, and except the late 

 arrivals and departures and losses of vessels; this was all we got 



