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Well, George, do not you think you had better be content with your merchant-ship, because, then, you can reckon on Emma's services?" GEORGE. "I will try, papa, to exercise my patience on the 'Stanley, and be satisfied to read of the men-of-war. Now, dear papa, I want to know if the Mediterranean has ever been frozen over like the Thames?"
There he rested for the remainder of the night in a fisherman's hut, and at daybreak embarking on board of one of the river-boats and taking with him those of his followers who were freemen, and bidding his slaves go to Cæsar without any apprehension for their safety, he rowed along the coast till he saw a large merchant-ship preparing to set sail, the master of which was a Roman, who had no intimacy with Pompeius, but knew him by sight: his name was Peticius.
The commander, Captain Maitland, had received strict orders to intercept Napoleon; but, seeking to gain time and to bring Admiral Hotham up with other ships, he replied that he would oppose the frigates by force: neither could he permit Napoleon to set sail on a merchant-ship until he had the warrant of his admiral for so doing.
"Have you arms?" "Yes. I've got enough to give Zangorri a pleasanter reception than he usually gets from a merchant-ship; and my lads are the boys that can use them." "I wonder what has become of that other ship that passed me on the island," said Brandon, after a pause. "She can't be very far away from us," replied the Captain, "and we may come up with her before we get to the Cape."
Another circumstance aided in bringing about the climax. I had an uncle who had been an old skipper that is, the master of a merchant-ship and it was the delight of this old gentleman to assemble his nephews around him there was a goodly number of us and tell us tales of the sea, to which all were ever eager to listen.
The war-vessel has the right of "visit and search" on all merchant-ships, enemy or neutral. It has also the right, in case the cargo of the merchant-ship appears to include more than a certain percentage of contraband, to capture it and take it into a port for adjudication as a prize. But here the right of the war-vessel stops.
"For my part I shall go to him immediately and desire him to change his course but after all I don't believe that dingy black thing is an iceberg at all an old hencoop rather, thrown over from some merchant-ship, or a vast lump of charred wood. You are only trying to alarm us."
Younger took Paul back with him to Whitehaven, bound shipmaster's apprentice. A little while after that, Paul Jones made his first of a series of merchant-ship voyages to the colonies and the West Indies. He continued in Mr. Younger's employ for four years; when he was seventeen he made a round voyage to America as second mate, and was first mate a year later. Paul left Mr.
We had to keep a bright lookout while standing across the mouth of the Thames, having nearly a dozen steamers in sight gliding swiftly along, and sailing vessels of all sizes, from the magnificent Indiaman, or Australian merchant-ship, of a thousand or more tons, down to the little coaster, measuring no more than forty or fifty; while yachts with sails white as snow were darting hither and thither.
On the contrary, we weighed anchor the same tide, and stood out to sea, steering away for the Canaries. Our ship had twenty-two guns, but was able to carry thirty; and besides, as she was fitted out for a merchant-ship only, she was not furnished either with ammunition or small-arms sufficient for our design, or for the occasion we might have in case of a fight.
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