The Ocean Telegraph to India: A Narrative and a Diary

Arab board the Chiltern boat bright British British-Indian Telegraph buoy cable hands cable paid cable-house CALIFORNIA LIBRARY Captain Halpin cent of slack Chatterton's compound Chiltern coal coil commenced Construction and Maintenance course Dædalus deck delay duty dynamometer Eastern electricians engineers England Expedition Falmouth fathoms Gibraltar going grapnel Gulf Gulf of Suez gutta-percha Hawk Hibernia Hindoos India Indian Government island Jibbel John Pender laid LAND LINES land-lines latter laying London looked Maintenance Company Malta messages miles of cable morning night noon officers old Red Sea pany Parsee passed paying paying-out picking port quarter Red Sea Red Sea cable rope round seen Shadwan Sherard Osborn ship ship's shore end side signal six P.M. splice starboard steam steamer stern strain submarine Suez Canal tank tele Telegraph Company Telegraph Construction tion to-day UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA vessel voyage weather wheels William Cory wind wires yesterday