Through Siberia and Manchuria by Rail #249623

It was a lovely day with fair wind and smooth sea, and had only the vessel's bows been pointed in the opposite direction, I should have been perfectly happy, but they were not, so I had to make the best of things, which consisted in watching over the stern Old Eng land's chalk cliffs, gleaming white in the brilliant sunshine, slowly sink and disappear into the heaving main. Good bye. Eastward ho!