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Conger Reynolds correspondence, May-December 1916

1916-08-16 Conger Reynolds to Mr. & Mrs. John Reynolds Page 2

to feel that the trip has been abundantly worth while; I have had a very agreeable rest from my usual work, and I am content to go back.  And it will be good to get back to my own country, my friends, my family.
I left London Wednesday noon and had a pleasant enough four-hour ride to Liverpool by train.  The examination of the outgoing passengers there proved to be much less troublesome than I expected, and I was on board, settled in my cabin, by five o'clock.  About six we pulled off from the dock and steamed down the harbor a half mile or so and anchored.  There we stuck until midnight -- why I do not know, though there was a story afloat that the captain was awaiting orders from the British admiralty as to the course he was to take.  It seems that, in wartime, passenger and merchant vessels, as well as warships, are moved according to admiralty orders.  We did not know whether we were to go out to the north or to the south of Ireland.  Next morning however, we discovered that it was to the south.  We found Ireland in plain sight some ten miles to the starboard.  All day long we could see the coast, sometimes a low line of hills covered with green pastures and yellow grain, sometimes a broken mass of mountains, bare and rocky.  Toward sunset we reached the southern coast and headed westward but it was nearly dark before the rocks

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to feel that the trip has been abundantly worth while; I have had a very agreeable rest from my usual work, and I am content to go back. And it will be good to get back to my own country, my friends, my family. I left London Wednesday noon and had a pleasant enough four-hour ride to Liverpool by train. The examination of the outgoing passengers there proved to be much less troublesome than I expected, and I was on board, settled in my cabin, by five o'clock. About six we pulled off from the dock and steamed down the harbor a half mile or so and anchored. There we stuck until midnight -- why I do not know, though there was a story afloat that the captain was awaiting orders from the British admiralty as to the course he was to take. It seems that, in wartime, passenger and merchant vessels, as well as warships, are moved according to admiralty orders. We did not know whether we were to go out to the north or to the south of Ireland. Next morning however, we discovered that it was to the south. We found Ireland in plain sight some ten miles to the starboard. All day long we could see the coast, sometimes a low line of hills covered with green pastures and yellow grain, sometimes a broken mass of mountains, bare and rocky. Toward sunset we reached the southern coast and headed westward but it was nearly dark before the rocks