Henry Savage Landor, one of the many passengers on the _Baltic_,
added chapter after chapter to the good story of the bravery and
coolness displayed by men and women when the _Republic_ was
struck, and throughout the hours of waiting and of rescue:
In all my travels through the countries of the two hemispheres,
never have I seen displayed a spirit of womanhood that could
be better in such an extreme than was that of the women of
the _Republic_. When we of the _Baltic_ met them,
it was as they were being brought to our vessel in a tossing
sea in small boats after nearly a score of hours spent on the
crowded Italian emigrant vessel, to which they had been taken
from another wreck. Yet not only was there no whimpering, but
they actually came aboard with smiling faces. They forgot that
all their traveling possessions were doomed, forgot all the
ordeal they had encountered, and showed themselves happy and
contented because they thought, most of them, that in the face
of disaster, all that the hands of willing men could do to help
them had been done.
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