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It was no use telling him that my mysterious vocation was so strong that my very wild oats had to be sown at sea. It was the exact truth, but he would not have understood the somewhat exceptional psychology of my sea-going, I fear. "I suppose you've never come across one of your countrymen at sea. Have you now?" I admitted I never had.

Even if we add the 140,000,000 carried by sea-going ships, there remains a balance of 60,000,000 tons in favor of the United States as against the rest of the world.

On inquiring if he had ever heard of cannibals, or people with tails, he replied, "Yes, but we have always understood that these and other monstrosities are met with only among you sea-going people." The other monstrosities he referred to were those who are said to have eyes behind the head as well as in front: I have heard of them before, but then I was near Angola, in the west.

"How do you know he doesn't?" asked Belle quickly. "Does he tell you everything?" "No; but I know Danny's sea-going lines pretty well. I'd suspect, at least, if he had a sweetheart." "Are you sure that you would?" "Oh, yes! By gracious! There's Danny going around the corner above at this very moment." Belle had looked in the same instant.

He noticed, as they sailed into the bay, a very handsome steam yacht lying at anchor, a sea-going craft flying the New York Yacht Club's burgee. On his return to the hotel Colin found his chief waiting for him, a little impatiently. "We're going to dinner on the Golden Falcon," he said, as soon as he saw the boy, "she belongs to a friend of mine.

The "Eliza" that was the name of the coastguard's boat on which our heroes had embarked was a middling-sized sea-going rowing boat, which, if it was just big enough by a little judicious packing to hold the seven voyagers, could certainly not have accommodated more.

They were fanned by a constant breeze of our own making which tossed us a bouquet of perfume from flowery fields as we slipped by, the only sound in our ears the cry of sea-going gulls overhead, and the delicate fluting of the water as our bows shattered its crystals among pale, shimmery sedges and tall reeds.

At the Admiralty the principal naval member of the Board is made responsible not only for the distribution and movements of ships a definition which includes the whole domain of strategy and tactics but also for the fighting and sea-going efficiency of the fleet, its organisation and mobilisation, a definition so wide that it includes the greater part of the administration of the navy, especially as the same officer is held responsible for advice on all large questions of naval policy and maritime warfare, as well as for the control of the naval ordnance department.

So as soon as I could I made a start for a place thirty miles higher up. "I had my passage on a little sea-going steamer. Her captain was a Swede, and knowing me for a seaman, invited me on the bridge. He was a young man, lean, fair, and morose, with lanky hair and a shuffling gait. As we left the miserable little wharf, he tossed his head contemptuously at the shore.

Anyone with an eye for sea-going craft can distinguish that topsail-schooner there, well ahead of the rest of the tiny fleet, skimming the water with swift grace, and immediately behind her the three-masted polacca hm! have we not seen her in these waters before? and the two graceful feluccas whose lateen sails look so like the outspread wings of a bird!