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Upon the day following that on which the events occurred which we have described in the foregoing chapter, the Selma steamer started from New Orleans, laden with gay and fashionable company.
It was nine o'clock in the morning when the bell rang for the starting of the vessel -- a gorgeous summer's day, the sky blue and cloudless, the Mississippi dancing in the sunshine.