| 21. | "Lytton " was a typical Columbia River steamer.
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| 22. | To move men and supplies to the gold fields, service by river steamers was inaugurated in 1858.
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| 23. | The small, clumsy, noisy river steamer left Kinshasa on 3 August 1890, bound up the Congo River.
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| 24. | The side-wheel river steamer was converted at New Orleans to a " cottonclad " ram in early 1862.
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| 25. | The river steamers had to stop here because it was the head of navigation on the Ottawa River.
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| 26. | King Leopold had promised a flotilla of river steamers, but only one worked : the " Stanley ".
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| 27. | A river steamer, " Henry Henderson ", purchased by Blantyre Mission in 1892, was named in his honour.
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| 28. | But 1912 also brought some very good news for all the local river steamers, and the area in general.
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| 29. | From here, goods went by river steamers to Chinde then by sea to Beira, involving three transhipments and delays.
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| 30. | Practically there were no roads, so that the main means of transport were some river steamers, canoes and rafts.
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