... added to its assets the Arabia, the Persia, the China, the Scotia, the Java, and the Russia, allships of top speed and, after the Great Eastern, the biggest ever to plow the seas. So in 1867 this ... amid a chorusof curses!However, the weather held good. Our voyage was proceeding under the most favorable conditions. By then it was the bad season in thesesouthernmost regions, because July ... hailing the Abraham Lincoln until it reached the watersof the Hudson River, at the tip of the long peninsula that forms NewYork City. The frigate then went along the New Jersey coast the won-derful...