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Updated: May 16, 2025
"Stop that hole in the bottom with your foot, will you?" The boat was water-logged and filling fast. The water was already over the Gentleman's spurs. Down on his knees the boy baled for his life. Behind him he heard a word of command: then the splash of oars, and the regular thump of rowlocks. The privateer's boat was away a ten- oared galley from the sound of her, and they were driving her.
I stated that oared boats would then be sent to frighten them, and prevent the execution of a work so unjust and of so ill a purpose, in addition to the many acts of injustice which have already been committed here in this land of the king our lord, greatly to his displeasure and, as I believe, that of his Majesty, which is the same thing.
There were also four hundred Indian pioneers Tagals and Pampangos of Manila who went to serve at their own cost, under their own officers, and with their own weapons. There was a quantity of artillery of all kinds, ammunition, tools, and provisions for nine months. The governor embarked in the galley "Santiago" and took under his charge the other galleys and oared vessels.
Every regatta included five courses, in which single and double oared boats, and single and double oared gondolas successively competed, the fifth contest being that in which the women participated with two-oared boats. Four prizes like those described were awarded to the winners in each course. The regatta was celebrated with all the pomp which the superb city could assume.
Here therefore we not only meet for the first time with navigation in the open ocean, but we find that here the sailing vessel first fully took the place of the oared boat an improvement, it is true, which the declining activity of the old world did not know how to turn to account, and the immeasurable results of which our own epoch of renewed culture is employed in gradually reaping.
"Don't I talk American to beat the band?" objected Fred. "Sit down on this rock a while, and I'll convince you." She sat on the rock, and we gathered round her. She was not more than twenty-two or three, but as perfectly assured and fearless as only a well-bred woman can be in the presence of unshaven men she does not know. Fred would have continued the tomfoolery, but Will oared in.
There on the ground lay a dead man, a countryman, who it was easy to see had been stabbed to death, and perhaps not more than an hour ago. Quarrel or robbery, who could say? An incident not so uncommon as greatly to perturb the travellers; they passed on and came to Puteoli. Here the waiting boatmen were soon found; the party embarked; the vessel oared away in a dead calm.
On the water, swinging to each other, crowding all the shallows of the delta of the little river, reaching out into the sweep of the Bosphorus, boats open and boats roofed scows, barges, galleys oared and galleys with masts ships a vast conglomerate raft. About the camp, and to and fro on the raft, men went and came, like ants in storing time.
Then rose the dumb old servitor, and the dead, Oared by the dumb, went upward with the flood In her right hand the lily, in her left The letter all her bright hair streaming down And all the coverlid was cloth of gold Drawn to her waist, and she herself in white.
This result arose partly out of the nature of the case, for the vessels were oared galleys and the service of the oar can scarcely be ennobled; but the Romans might at least have formed separate legions of marines and taken steps towards the rearing of a class of Roman naval officers.
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