The descending steamers and barges on the great river itself were half of them heavy laden with cotton and at the head of navigation on the Tennessee, in northwestern Alabama, bales enough were waiting to fill a dozen boats.

Though steamers are now very common sights, we in turn attracted attention, all eyes being directed to our deck.

On board our steamer was a fine black young man, who acted as barber, waiter, and man-of-all-work.

It was well both for the purse and the patience of the kind-hearted old man that ocean steamers were still a doubtful problem, and first-class packets rarely over five hundred tons.

The salvage steamer with her big arc lights glowing through the darkness had been the last artistic touch which brought complete conviction.

The steamer we took passage in was the Northerner, advertised to sail on the twenty-ninth day of November, 1850.

Indeed, the happy steamer was genuinely Filipino!

The steamer was French, and her captain a French naval officer; and it is possible he and the pilot did not understand each other any too well.

By-and-by boats come off, and we get news that the steamer is the "Maryland," a ferry-boat of the Philadelphia and Baltimore Railroad.

The steamer was evidently a large war-ship, but what had, brought her to that remote, unfrequented part of the world we could not conjecture.

The steamers "Oregon," "Columbia," and "State of California" are powerful iron steamers, built expressly for tourist travel between Portland and San Francisco.

"What a prize to them that French steamer would have been!" said Annie; "the one you and Ford took Frank from.

The passenger-steamers on the Caspian are the property of the Caucase-Mercure Company, a Russian firm.

As a rookie reporter in Mumbai in the 1990s, lesson one was about Goan journos fresh off the boat (the Bombay-Goa steamer was a recent memory then) gladly beginning at the bottom despite having done duty in one of Goa's three English-language newspapers.

"The steamer is all iron and does not sink.

" STEAMSHIPS AND STEAMBOATS "That new steamer they're building is a whopper," says the man with the shoe button nose.

This small steamer is the only thing to remind an observer at Hongkong, a port thronged with the ships of all nations, that an island so specially favored in conditions and fertility lies in such close proximity.

On board our steamer were two prisoners on the deck, in heavy irons.