text:  The despatch of the look-out frigates the constant change of signals the firing of guns to regulate the sailing of the great convoy the manoeuvres of those floating castles the seventy-fours and three-deckers the harmony of their bands as they passed us rushing along under a cloud of canvass with the hum of the thousands on board--all formed one of the most heart-stirring combinations that could exist to the eye or even to the heart of a human being