human
It is within the range of possibilities that the _Empress_ may have been lost on the rock sighted by Captain Cooper, though how she could have got so far to the east, when she should have hauled up long before for Aden, it is difficult to say, observed Jack, when afterwards talking the matter over with the lieutenant and master.
gpt
Probably her machinery broke down, as ours did.
human
And meeting with a gale, she had to run before it, remarked the master.
gpt
These steam-kettles of ours can never be depended upon. I wish we could go back to the good old sailing ships. When we had them we knew what we were about, and took good care to keep off a lee shore; or, when it came on to blow, we hove the ship to and rode it out comfortably. Now we trust to the machinery, and it fails us in time of need. I shouldn't like to say that to the engineer, for he sticks up for his engines, and wonders how ships used to cross the ocean before they got steam power.