文档介绍：ATLANTIS
A novel by Gerhart Hauptmann
Translated by Adele and Thomas Seltzer
NEW YORK
. HUEBSCH
1912
Copyright 1912 by
S. FISCHER, VERLAG, BERLIN
Copyright 1912 by
. HUEBSCH
All rights reserved
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PART I
I
The German fast mail steamer, Roland, one of the older vessels of the North German
pany, plying between Bremen and New York, left Bremen on the twenty-
third of January, 1892.
It had been built in English yards with none of those profuse, gorgeous gold decorations
in a riotous rococo style which are so unpleasant in the saloons and cabins of ships more
recently built in German yards.
The crew of the vessel included the captain, four officers, two engineers of the first rank,
assistant engineers, firemen, coal-passers, oilers, a purser, the head-steward and the
second steward, the chef, the second cook, and a doctor. In addition to these men with
their assistants, to whom the well-being of that tremendous floating household was
entrusted, there were, of course, a number of sailors, stewards, stewardesses, workers in
the kitchen, and so on, besides two cabin-boys and a nurse. There was also an officer in
charge of the mail on board. The vessel was carrying only a hundred cabin passengers
from Bremen; but in the steerage there were four hundred human beings.
Frederick von Kammacher, to whom, the day before, the Roland had been non-existent,
telegraphed from Paris to have a cabin on it reserved for him. Haste was imperative.
After receiving notification from pany that the cabin was being held, he had only
an hour and a half in which to catch the express that would bring him to Havre at about
twelve o'clock. From Havre he crossed to Southampton, spending the night in a bunk in
one of those wretched saloons in which a number of persons are herded together. But he
managed to sleep the whole time, and the crossing went without incident.
At dawn he was on deck watching England's ghostly coast-line draw near