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Excerpt from The New Ceylon: Being a Sketch of British North Borneo, or Sabah, From Official and Other Exclusive Sources of Information
The electric lamps ashed into a sudden radiance as the sun is said to do at daybreak in the tropics.
For a few minutes previously to the simultaneous leap of light that transformed a dozen opaque globes into mimic suns, Charing Cross railway station had been in semi-darkness.
There was much bustle of departing travellers. Parliament was up 3 for even the longest and most obstructed session comes to an end. Jaded legis lators, men of fashion, ladies of society, were among the crowd bound for foreign shores. London was emptying itself from all its avenues of transit.
Any more for the Continental express shouted the platform inspector.
A banging of doors, a shrill whistle, a last pressure of hands through carriage-windows, and the red lamps of the Express for a moment challenged the white sentinels of Electra, only to leave the spectators gazing at the glistening track of steel along which it vanished into the outer darkness.
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