Mosquitos are very troublesome all over this part, and swarms of them come from the banks and invade the steamers lying alongside.
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A casual inspection of the ferry steamers revealed that they were full of mosquitos.
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Ocean-going steamers ascend the river to this point even in the dry season.
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Further, in the individual cabins one usually finds the same wash-stand arrangement as is used on ocean-going steamers.
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The journey performed by the ferry steamers is not a direct crossing of the river, but involves going up-stream some seven-eighths of a mile in addition.
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The river is an important water-way, but though navigable for ocean-going steamers for about 250 miles from the sea, does not lead beyond the coast region.
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The waggons are hauled individually on and off the ferry steamers by power-operated cables, a slow process, involving a halt of about an hour at each side.
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The solitary female taken in 1933 was in a catching-station remote from any possible riversteamerimportation.
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When hissteamerquits the town, it is attacked by rebels, but manages to fight clear.
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The second was the problem of bridging major rivers, which left the railways almost literally suspended on their banks with temporary terminal stations leading tosteamerriver crossings.
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The company were free to buy and own tank steamers.
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Inquiries are being made, and, if it is found practicable, permission will be given for a limited service of steamers to continue.
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What would be the result of an accident of that kind upon those crowded steamers during a season like this?
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Another question is that relating to deck-loads of timber on coasting steamers, with all the dangers attendant upon that practice.
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The bare show of pomp and panoply, soldiers and steamers, is not enough, and will only last for the day thereof.
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