You may copy it, give it away or re use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.Modern shipping methods offer little opportunity for ambitious lads to make their way from ganges river and pollution the forecastle to the owner's desk.Its primary purpose, of course, is to aid in the enforcement of the revenue laws and to suppress smuggling.Perhaps the night is pitchy dark, with ganges river and pollution a gale blowing and a heavy sea on but the pilot slips on his shore clothes and his derby hat it is considered unprofessional to wear anything more nautical and makes ready to board.That was in the era ganges river and pollution of sailing ships and infrequent steamers, and it was the period of the greatest mortality among the pilots for staunch as their little boats were, and consummate as was their seamanship, they were not fitted for such long cruises.At night they shine with electric lights fed from a submarine cable, or with steady gas drawn from a reservoir that needs refilling only three or four times a year.Newell, a young citizen of that State, destined later to be its Governor, stood on the beach near Barnegat in a raging tempest, and ganges river and pollution watched the Austrian brig Count Perasto drift onto the shoals.Under the law every foreign vessel entering an American port must take a pilot.Even here, however, the inroads of steam are beginning to rob the life of its old time picturesqueness, though as they tend to make it more certain that the pilot shall survive the perils of his calling, they are ganges river and pollution naturally welcomed.The drill masters for the crews are chosen from the revenue service, as also are the inspectors.