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To this port of Melcha the course is by the famous emporium of Calicut, from which Melcha is farther to the east and south .
And out of that you pay me ten per cent., if I get it through for you. Take it or leave it." "My dear Sylvanus, that's almost-cynical." "Too good a price you'll never get it without me." "But a but a commission! You could never disclose it!" "Arrange that all right. Think it over. Freights'll go lower yet. Have some port." "No, no! Thank you. No! So you think freights will go lower?"
By dint of signs he made them understand that he wanted a hatchet, and he also contrived to let them know that they must go down unless the port rigging was severed. For a wonder he got what he wanted, and he laboured until his elbows were numbed before the bumping, rolling mast was clear. Four hours till daylight, and wind and sea getting worse.
Acosta returned to the port of Guavera, where he waited fresh orders from Lima. Gonzalo treated the prisoners sent to him by Acosta with much kindness, supplying them with clothes and arms, and gave them their choice of any of the companies of his troops in which they might think proper to serve.
This action did not appear altogether in the interest of China, for each of the three powers soon asked of China quite as important concessions for themselves, France in the south, Germany at Kiaochow, and Russia at Port Arthur, which compelled England to guard her interests by leasing WVei-hai-wei, opposite Port Arthur.
About A.D. 522 the troops of Anushirwan expelled the Abyssinians from Yemen, and re-established there a Himyari prince under vassalage of the Persian Monarch. Tradition asserts the port to have been occupied in turns by the Furs , the Arabs, the Turks, the Gallas, and the Somal. And its future fortunes are likely to be as varied as the past.
"Angelica's little maid, Betsinda, told me so when she came to my room this morning with my early tea." "You are always drinking tea," said the monarch, with a scowl. "It is better than drinking port or brandy-and-water," replies her Majesty. "Well, well, my dear, I only said you were fond of drinking tea," said the King of Paflagonia, with an effort as if to command his temper. "Angelica!
When the transports docked safely in a British port the duties of Frank and Jack ceased so far as they had to do with the American troops. Lord Hastings turned the command of the Lawrence over to a brother officer and with Frank and Jack took train for London. The lads accompanied Lord Hastings; to his home, where they awaited further instructions.
As luck would have it, I was reading Boas's Mind of Primitive Man when I heard the rush of feet over my head. The Elsinore was hove to on the port tack at the time, under very short canvas. I was wondering what emergency had brought the watch upon the poop, when I heard another rush of feet that meant the second watch.
The ship-masters, eager to witness and enjoy the convivial scene which Hannibal's proposal promised them, accepted the invitation, and ordered their main-sails to be taken down. Of course, this confined all their vessels to port. In the evening, the company assembled under the vast tent, made by the main-sails, on the shore. Hannibal met them, and remained with them for a time.
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