Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Steam Engineering on Sugar Plantations, Steamships, and Locomotive Engines
A steamship engineer has to work him self up' from an inferior position, although he may be a good engineer and machinist on land, and, as he sets out on his first voyage, it is a great advantage to have an idea of the work to be done at sea.
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