It is only a postponement.

I will meet them again on the steamboat and make their acquaintance on the voyage.
"Well," said I to the Yankee, "how are you getting on with your cargo ?" "At this moment, sir, the thirty-seventh case is on the road." "And no accident up to now?
"No accident." "And what may be in those cases, if you please?
"In those cases?
Ah! There is the thirty-seventh!" he exclaimed, and he ran out to meet a truck which had just come onto the quay.
There was a good deal of bustle about, and all the animation of departures and arrivals.

Baku is the most frequented and the safest port on the Caspian.

Derbent, situated more to the north, cannot keep up with it, and it absorbs almost the entire maritime traffic of this sea, or rather this great lake which has no communication with the neighboring seas.

The establishment of Uzun Ada on the opposite coast has doubled the trade which used to pass through Baku.