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distant views were shut out. I could hear of no 

 diy-tly iishing worth having, except at liallyshannon, 

 nor the sort of headquarters such as I coveted, and 

 I begun to be tired of wandering about not fulfilling 

 inv object. 



Hut during the night, which bringeth counsel, I 

 asked myself, what was the use of my hurrying 

 thither or elsewhere in Ireland at great expense 

 and troubles with uncertainty us to dry-fly sport 

 in peaceful surroundings, when in England I could 

 now be certain of obtaining it in rivers long 

 familiar to me ? 



I therefore next day took the train back to 

 Waterfojd, and at night shipped on board the 

 ss. Great Western for Milford Haven. It was now 

 heavily laden with homed cattle and sheep, not by 

 any means adding to the sanitary conditions of the 

 vessel, engaged in first-class passenger traffic also. 

 I kept the deck all night as before, from 10 o'clock 

 to the following day at noon (fourteen hours), for 

 we were delayed by a sea-fog, which gradually 

 surrounded us as if we were in the clouds from 

 about 3 o'clock a.m. The speed of the vessel was- 

 reduced, our foghorn kept bellowing like some wild 

 beast, at short intervals during many hours, and 

 twice, after soundings, we had to let go the anchor 

 and lay to, somewhat uncertain of our bearings, in 

 about nine fathoms of water, once near a shoal, the 



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