davited

Updated: May 7, 2025

And yet these commercial peoples barred their gates to him! For a number of days he took his place in the shade of a davited boat, and now and again he read from a quaint book the Analects of Confucius. We sailed on Wednesday, and on Sunday made the first tropic, nearly twenty-three and a half degrees above the line.

Frederick O'Brien - Mystic Isles of the South Seas.