"The big coastwise tug Hydrographer slid stern-ward into a slip cluttered with driftwood and bituminous dust, stopping within heaving distance of three coal-laden barges which in their day had reared "royal s\'ls" to the wayward winds of the seven seas.
There were a number of guests aboard, and most of them arose from their wicker chairs on the after-deck.
Near-by lay Horace Howland\'s ocean-going steam yacht, Veiled Ladye, which had put into Norfolk from Caribbean ports, to replenish her bunkers. "The big coastwise tug Hydrographer slid stern-ward into a slip cluttered with driftwood and bituminous dust, stopping within heaving distance of three coal-laden barges which in their day had reared "royal s\'ls" to the wayward winds of the seven seas
