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And then, because he was for ever restless, he sailed away once and returned in a small ship, and brought back trade and built a store and a fine house to dwell in. The chief of this town gave him, for friendship, a piece of land over there by the Vai-ta-milo, and thus did he become a still greater man.
She has shown herself a very fast boat the few times she has been raced, but so have we, and taking the line through boats that we have both sailed against, I think that we ought to be able to beat her." "I have rather a fancy that we shan't do so, Hawkins. We will do our best, but I have met Mr.
A convict ship came in from England last night, the Surry, sailed 17th July. No particular news, except that the Coronation was positively to take place on the 8th of September. If you have anything to send to Head Quarters the bearer will bring it for you. Believe me, my dear Major, With the most sincere wishes for your success, very truly yours,
Marryat has left us a graphic account of his first day at sea: "The Impérieuse sailed; the Admiral of the port was one who would be obeyed, but would not listen always to reason or common sense.
The man went back to the city, and began to tell his story. The story went abroad through that whole country, and everyone who heard it was amazed. For the disciples it had been a night and day of wonders. But as they sailed home across the lake they did not know that an even greater triumph was waiting for Jesus on the other side.
We sailed for the North American station, the pleasantest I could go to when away from Emily. Our passage was tedious, and we were put on short allowance of water. Those only who have known it will understand it. All felt it but the captain; who, claiming privilege, took a dozen gallons every day to bathe his feet in, and that water, when done with, was greedily sought for by the men.
There was a Swede that came back next day to her anchorage, which was said to have got back-strapped, behind the Rock, by some legerdemain, and so escaped also. I do not know how many lives were lost on this occasion; but the destruction of property must have been very great. Three weeks after the gale, the Governor Brooks sailed.
Reduced to half-pay at the peace of 1782, he settled at Rochester, in Kent, and was finally appointed Judge-Advocate to the intended settlement at Botany Bay, and in May, 1787, sailed with Governor Phillip, who, moreover, appointed him his secretary, which situation he filled until his return to England in 1797.
Thus meditated the exquisite Tutmosis, while he strengthened his anxious soul with golden wine. Before the boat had sailed up to Memphis, heavy sleep had mastered him in such wise that his slaves had to carry their lord to the litter. After the departure of Tutmosis, which resembled a flight, the heir fell to thinking deeply; he even felt fear. Ramses was a skeptic.
But as he got into the boat, there spake an Icelander who was in the ship and had followed Bjarne from Iceland, 'Art thou going to leave me here, Bjarne? Quoth Bjarne, 'So it must be. Then said the man, 'Another thing didst thou promise my father, when I sailed with thee from Iceland, than to desert me thus.
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