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Stoute, who had just come from his berth, in which he had bolstered himself up, in order, as he expressed it, to know exactly where he was. "We have just saved them from the wreck of a Dutch galiot. They can't speak a word of English, and we wish you to talk to them." "In Dutch?" laughed Mr. Stoute. "I cannot do it." "What is the matter, Mr.
He did not speak English any more fluently than Paul did French, and they did not get along very well. Mr. Stoute, having finished his breakfast, came on deck. He taught the French in the Josephine, and was very happy to find an opportunity to air his vocabulary. The skipper of the galiot came up from the cabin soon after with his family.
Pelham will have charge of the boat," added Captain Kendall, who had great confidence in the zeal and ability of this officer. "The wreck! The wreck!" shouted all hands, as the disabled galiot came into view. On the rail of the vessel, whose starboard half was completely submerged in the water, were two men, making violent gestures, and shouting to the crew of the Josephine.
Here, in the wreck of an old galiot, he hid every article dry and secure; kegs of liquors and wine, shawls and blankets, pieces of silk, gunpowder, beautiful pipes, bars of silver and copper, and a whole bag of gold. Nanking covered them with dry driftwood and boughs of trees, and sailed again to New Amstel, where he arrived before breakfast.
"Right over the lee bow! She has capsized!" Paul and Terrill ran to the rail, and discovered a small vessel, lying over on her beam ends. "That's a Dutch galiot!" exclaimed Cleats, who promptly recognized the craft. "That's a trick they have of turning bottom upwards." "Port!" shouted Terrill, who did not take his eye off the foresail of the Josephine for more than an instant at a time.
"Messire Galiot de Genoilhac, chevalier, seigneur de Brussac, master of the king's artillery!" "Master Dreux-Raguier, surveyor of the woods and forests of the king our sovereign, in the land of France, Champagne and Brie!" "Messire Louis de Graville, chevalier, councillor, and chamberlain of the king, admiral of France, keeper of the Forest of Vincennes!"
The Seine, being thus confined within its bed, the eye is never displeased here by the sight of muddy banks like those of the Thames, or the nose offended by the smell arising from the filth which the common sewers convey to the river. The galiot of St. Cloud regularly takes its departure from the Pont National.
At other times, in the hotel Henry IV., "with his friends and prostitutes brought under requisition, he has an orgy;" he allows himself the same indulgence on the galiot during the drownings; there at the end of a drunken frolic, he is regaled with merry songs, for example, "la gamelle": he needs his amusements. Some, who are shrewd, think of the more substantial and look out for the future.
The man nodded earnestly, and pointed with redoubled vigor to the after part of the galiot. Vrow means wife; and Pelham concluded that the skipper's lady was in the cabin, but whether dead or alive he did not know. It was evident to those on board of the Josephine that there was some reason for the delay of the boat in not bringing off the survivors of the wreck.
Many varieties of vessels are mentioned in the records of Prince Henry's time the barca, barinel, caravel, nau, fusta; the galley, galiot, galeass, and galleon; the brigantine and carrack. Of all these the caravel became the favored for the long, exploring voyages. It was usually from sixty to one hundred feet long and eighteen to twenty-five feet broad, and of about two hundred tons burden.
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