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The "Ireland"-W. S. L. Postal-line-Mr. Jenkins-The Author Discovers that he is Styled a "Government"-The General's Quarters-Proceed to Sea-Accident in the Saloon-Total Darkness in the "Lower Regions"-Spittoons and Safety Lamps-The Gale-Put Back to Plymouth-Ten Passengers Leave the "Ireland."
On the 6th December, 1856, I embarked, with my wife, on board the Royal Mail Screw Steamer "Ireland," for the Cape of Good Hope, _en route_ to Mozambique, to which place I had been appointed as Her Majesty's Consul.