Now, how sorry we feel for those other globe trotters on the launch, Birring along behind a hot, bubbling, puffing, steam kettle-and so crowded, and in this heat too, whilst we extend at our ease in a white and sky-blue boat, with pink cushions, and dreamily listen to the silky frou frou of the southern sea.
"From Edinburgh to India & Burmah"
William G. Burn Murdoch