---------------+-------------+----------+------+--------+-----+-------------- Names of | Cost. | Ages. |Horse |Tonnage.|Speed| —— Vessels. | | |Power.| | | ---------------+-------------+----------+------+--------+-----+-------------- | | | | |Knots| | | | | | per | | | | | |Hour.| | £ s. d.| | | | | _Acbar_ |76,373 9 8 |built 1841| 350 | 1,143 | 8½ | } Employed on _Ajdaha_ |80,515 16 5 |built 1847| 500 | 1,440 | 8 | } the Bombay _Atalanta_ |36,651 17 10 |built 1835| 210 | 616 | 7¼ | } Mail Line. _Auckland_ |43,052 3 2 |built 1840| 220 | 946 | .. | } General | | | | | | } Service. _Berenice_ |40,123 11 6 |built 1835| 230 | 664 | .. | { | | | | | | { Employed on _Feerooz_ |67,219 0 0 |built 1846| 500 | 1,440 | 8⅔ | { the Bombay | | | | | | { Line. _Medusa_ (iron)| 9,972 18 1 |built 1840| 70 | 432 | .. | } _Moozuffer_ |81,576 9 6 |built 1846| 500 | 1,440 | .. | } General _Queen_ |44,409 17 11 |built 1839| 220 | 760 | .. | } Service. _Semiramis_ |43,447 12 8 |built 1840| 300 | 1,000 | .. | } _Sesostris_ |52,388 8 2 |built 1839| 220 | 876 | .. | } | | | | | | { Employed on _Victoria_ |39,820 15 6 |built 1839| 230 | 714 | 6⅝ | { the Bombay | | | | | | { Mail Line. ---------------+-------------+----------+------+--------+-----+-------------- [319] Hill was an engineer, and Raven a wheelwright in the service originally of Galloway Bey, and, subsequently, in that of the Pasha of Egypt, Muhammed Ali, who, when they were in difficulties to carry on their work, rendered them pecuniary assistance. [320] Mr. Waghorn, in his evidence before the House of Commons Committee of 1837, says (question 53), “I can send Mr. Hill and other men of the service at an hour’s notice from Cairo,” &c., by which it appears they were then, at least, under his orders. [321] In a note I received from Sir Daniel Lange (12th March, 1875), he remarks: “M. de Lesseps often told me how he met Waghorn struggling with man and beast in the desert to carry his mails across, and that it served as an example to him in after-life with the Suez Canal.” [322] See evidence before Committee of 1834 by Mr. Peacock, pp. 2 and 3.