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And we had passed shoals of their women climbing the forty miles of steep road from the valley to their mountain homes, with tall baskets on their backs hitched to their foreheads by a band, and containing a freightage weighing I will not say how many hundreds of pounds, for the sum is unbelievable.
And so long as the tribes of the northern lakes annually brought their rich freightage of mink and beaver to Fort Frontenac or Montreal, to be exchanged there for arms and brandy, beads, hatchets, bracelets, and gay-colored fabrics, gold was not lacking for the pockets of clever merchant and corrupt official, if not always for the royal treasury of France.
Because of her reputation for speed, she received freightage of six pounds sterling per ton while British ships rode at anchor with empty holds or were glad to sail at three pounds ten per ton. Captain Theodore Palmer delivered his sixteen hundred tons of tea in the West India Docks, London, after a crack passage of ninety-one days which had never been equaled.
After I had paid the freightage of these said marbles the money received for this work came to an end. I furnished the house I had on the piazza of St. By this time Pope Julius had changed his mind, and no longer wished to have it done.
"I was just fearin' you'd be wantin' me along, sir. Kwaque, you take 'm my fella dunnage belong me, put 'm in other fella boat along other side." While Kwaque obeyed, the mate sounded the well for the last time, reporting three feet and a half, and the lighter freightage of the starboard boat was tossed in by the sailors.
"Give me an oar; we can pull her over in little more than an hour," said Sir Bale; "only let us get away." He got into the boat, sat down, and placed the leather bag with its heavy freightage at his feet, and took an oar.
It caught their fancy that this boat was the Ark, what of its freightage of bedding, dry goods boxes, beer-cases, a cat, two dogs, a white cockatoo, a Chinaman, a kinky-headed black, a gangly pallid-haired giant, a grizzled Dag Daughtry, and an Ancient Mariner who looked every inch the part. Him a facetious, vacationing architect's clerk dubbed Noah, and so greeted him. "I say, Noah," he called.
Several had discharged their freightage of tailoring and millinery, when two vehicles, which seemed companions, stopped at the edge of the pavement, and from the second alighted the young ladies whom Godwin had yesterday observed; their male companion, however, was different.
'And what the devil is all this for, Sir? ten twelve pounds ten shillings freightage and care on the way and twenty-five, by George, Sir not far from forty pounds, Sir, roared Cluffe. 'Where'll I bring him to, Sir? asked the driver. The captain bellowed an address we sha'n't print here. 'Curse him curse the brute! forty pounds! and the captain swore hugely, 'you scoundrel!
But for the time being, first things must take first place. Until it had been demonstrated that Virginia could provide profitable freightage for the ships of England, her future rested upon an insecure foundation. Hence, the initial emphasis on the type of activity which promised the more immediate or the greater return.
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