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"That would be like him. I don't suppose if hell opened under his feet he'd do anything except look interested. And it 'pears to me's though hell had opened up right now!" A chuckle came from the chart table. "What's your idea of hell, Newton?" asked Cunningham. "Anything you might have a hand in," was the return bolt. "Why, you used to like me!" "Yes, yes! But I didn't know you then.
"Well," said Bowler, digging his hands into his pockets and taking another survey of the chart, "I'm rather game, do you know!" "Hurrah!" said Gayford. "I know we shall be all right if we get you." "Who do you mean by we?" asked Bowler. "Ah, that's another point. I haven't mentioned it to any one yet; but we should want about half a dozen fellows, you know." "Don't have Burton," said Bowler.
It is south 23° 20´. On the vertical borders of the chart I find the figures of the declination, and I observe that 0° Dec., which represents the equator of the heavens, is near the top of the chart, while each parallel horizontal line across the chart indicates 10° north or south of its next neighbor.
Silence held the bridge deck, silence save for the subdued purr of the engine under their feet and the drip, drip of the drops from the awning edge. Steve peered anxiously ahead, his senses alert. At last: "Hear anything?" he asked. They all said no. "I guess I was mistaken then," Steve explained, "but I could have sworn I heard surf." He leaned over the chart.
To hell with all Ottilias and seminaries! The book you sent me is a queer book. It is like a watercourse with an insufficient number of buoys, so that one might run aground at any moment. But I pricked the chart and found calm waters. Only, I couldn't do it again. The devil may crack these nuts which are rotten inside when one has managed to break the shell.
For more than nine months he followed the windings of these shores, in the face of all kinds of perils and difficulties, and succeeded in laying down the chart of the coast from the part since named Truxillo, as far as the Gulf of Darien.
The chart in Krusenstern's "Atlas" shows that these islands are not encircled, and as coral appears from the works of Surville, Bougainville, and Labillardiere, to grow on their shores, this circumstance, as in the case of the New Hebrides, is a presumption that they are fringed.
At four in the morning, on receiving the joyful intimation that I was to be officer of the boat, I lost no time in getting together everything likely to be useful a sextant, artificial horizon, spy-glass, chart, compass, and Nautical Almanac, besides a Malay Dictionary.
Standard dietitians divide our foods into four basic food groups and recommend the ridiculous practice of mixing them at every meal. This guarantees indigestion and lots of business for the medical profession. This chart illustrates the actual food groups. It is usually a poor practice to mix different foods from one group with those from another. The Digestive Process
How all these rivers cross and encounter, how the country lieth and is bordered, the passage of Ximenes and Berreo, mine own discovery, and the way that I entered, with all the rest of the nations and rivers, your lordship shall receive in a large chart or map, which I have not yet finished, and which I shall most humbly pray your lordship to secrete, and not to suffer it to pass your own hands; for by a draught thereof all may be prevented by other nations; for I know it is this very year sought by the French, although by the way that they now take, I fear it not much.
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