Excerpt from Three Trips to the Tropics, or the West Indies in Winter, 1903, 1904, 1905
HE bright, cold, blustery morning of January io, 1903, saw that mighty leviathan of the deep, the German steamship, Moltke, slowly back out of her slip at Hoboken, and, stately gliding down the Hudson.
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