We are excusable for getting a little tangled as to time.

These distractions and distresses about the time have worried me so much that I was afraid my mind was so much affected that I never would have any appreciation of time again; but when I noticed how handy I was yet about comprehending when it was dinner-time, a blessed tranquillity settled down upon me, and I am tortured with doubts and fears no more.
Odessa is about twenty hours' run from Sebastopol, and is the most northerly port in the Black Sea.

We came here to get coal, principally.
The city has a population of one hundred and thirty-three thousand, and is growing faster than any other small city out of America.

It is a free port, and is the great grain mart of this particular part of the world.
Its roadstead is full of ships.

Engineers are at work, now, turning the open roadstead into a spacious artificial harbor.