bluesrat:

It sailed all the way south from NYC around Tierra del Fuego, and back up the west coast of the Americas to San Francisco.  

The phrase ‘sailing regularly’ on this flyer baffles and bemuses me.  I have a hard time imagining what it must have been like to travel when even a ‘routine’ trip took a third of a year and had the reasonable danger of putting you a mile underwater off the coast of Argentina.

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