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...most recent historical parallel to Monday's incident occurred during the Civil War, Albion reported. In spring, 1861, a bunch of Confederate soldiers hijacked a coastal steamer and, after an abortive attempt to sneak up on a Union supply ship, turned the passenger boat into a raider...
Most of the parties are for men only and are in restaurants and nightclubs, but this year there was competition for odd places to hold them. Two groups chartered Tokyo streetcars; another went aboard a coastal steamer. One party was held atop Tokyo Tower, which bills itself as higher than the Eiffel Tower...
Kayira set off again, walking 50 miles a day, sometimes hitchhiking, and eventually boarding a White Nile steamer. "I had no food, but by the mercy of God on the boat was an American tourist." This Samaritan fed Kayira until he reached Khartoum, where he marched proudly into the U.S. embassy for a visa...
...begun to spread through the new Congo nation. "It is purely and simply panic," he wrote home in early July. "I have passed seven boats headed downstream, all dangerously loaded with fleeing [Belgian] families. I am the only passenger headed into the interior-all alone on a 32-passenger steamer." He added: "I have had only friendly reactions from the Africans and anticipate no problems . . . They ask why there aren't Americans out here where they're needed and wanted...
...know most of the tricks, they manage to intercept, by one estimate, less than 5% of the smuggled gold. Shrugged one cynical old hand in the gold trade: "After all, just for looking the other way when a bag of gold goes over the rail of an incoming steamer and onto a harbor boat, a customs man can pick up a year's salary...