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The frankincense country was the next object of his ambition: this he subdued; and having sent a fleet and army across the Red Sea into Arabia, he compelled the inhabitants of the district to maintain the roads free from robbers, and the sea from pirates a proof that these people had made some advances in seafaring matters, and also of the attention paid by Euergetes to the navigation of the Red Sea, as well as to the protection of land commerce.
So they embarked with their seafaring followers Vikings, as we still call them often, indeed, with their wives and families, in great open ships, and sailed away, some to the coast of England, others to France, and others even to the Mediterranean, where they took service under the Byzantine emperors.
Then he suddenly emerged from that quiet shelter, and accepted the urgent invitation of a hansom-cab driver to get into his vehicle. "Westminster Bridge," he said. He quitted the cab at the corner of the bridge, and walked quickly down to the steamboat-landing. "Where do you want to go to?" inquired the gruff, seafaring ticket-clerk. "As far as I can," was the reply.
"I promised you that I should tell you nothing until you had seen him," he repeated, as the Marquis followed with his eyes the movements of the group of which the man they called Loo Barebone formed the centre. No one took much notice of the two strangers. It is not considered good manners in a seafaring community to appear to notice a new-comer.
"There is no guilt in infirmity," said the knight; "I punish the vicious only." "I would your honour would punish Gilbert then," cried the squire, "for 't is the most vicious tuoad that ever I laid a leg over but as to that same seafaring man, what may his distemper be?" "Madness," answered Sir Launcelot.
The armament of these vessels generally consisted of six to ten carronades and one long pivot-gun, going by the pet name of "Long Tom," mounted amidships. The crew was usually a choice assortment of cut-throats and seafaring vagabonds of all classes, ready enough to fight if plunder was to be gained, but equally ready to surrender if only honor was to be gained by fighting.
But I shall not pay at that high rate for the Egyptian dog. The two passed on. 'This, said the Egyptian, 'is a pretty kettle of fish. 'What is? asked all the children at once. 'Our present position, said Rekh-mara. 'Our seafaring friend, he added, 'has sold us all for slaves! A hasty council succeeded the shock of this announcement. The Priest was allowed to take part in it.
Don't you feel the need of a breath of fresh air, Wotton?" "Yessir, thank you, sir." "Then change your coat, Wotton, light your pipe, and stroll out for half an hour. You need not leave the street, but if either the tall thin blackguard with the seafaring habit, or the short stout rascal with the air of mystery should accost you, treat them with all courtesy, Wotton.
The white Amphitrite and the Nereids only accepted on their altars the fruits of the earth, sacrifices of doves, libations of milk. Perhaps because of this the seafaring men of the Mediterranean, following an hereditary tendency, looked upon intoxication as the vilest of degradations.
Here were the red-bearded sons of Reuben, shepherds in skins and men of great hardihood; the seafaring children of Zebulon; a handful of submissive Issachar, and some of Benjamin, Levi, and Judah. "Do we not leave the aged behind?" the scribe asked, indicating Deborah who came with Judah. "Give her her way," Atsu replied indifferently, and the scribe subsided.
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