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Excerpt from In Tasman's Land: Gleams and Dreams of the Great North-West
Then, again, the Flora herself is a miniature Royal Mail steamer in all her appointments. Her saloon runs the full width of the ship. The roomy deck stateroom, the liberal menu, and the pervading air of comfort, and even of luxury, all tend to put a traveller into the right holiday mood.
Later on, when the New Yorker had retired below, and the gentleman from Northern Queensland had no one left to argue with. And the returned soldier had desisted from his conversational trekking after De Wet, and the married man had folded his rug like a husband, and silently slunk away in response to an appealing face in the doorway, darkness descended upon the waters. The Flora, having passed through the Rip, turned her nose a few points to the east ward, and thud, thudded steadily on her way to the north-west coast of the beautiful island that hangs like a pendant from the necklace of sapphire sea which adorns imperious Australia.
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