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Then, when my ship has gone, you you and he you must promise me this, Tui must leave this island as quickly as possible; so that when Obadiah Howlman sends another warship here as he will do they may not discover that I am a liar and have been false to my duty." "Oh, sir, is this true? Surely you would not tell a lie to a poor native girl like me?"
"You mean they don't have to take orders as if they were on a yacht, Mrs. Miner?" "No, no don't make any mistake there. The discipline of a yacht, so far as I know it, is baby play to what they have on a good fisherman. The discipline aboard a warship is nothing to that aboard a fisherman, like Captain Blake's vessel say, when there is anything to be done.
In short, as regards armour, she was an entire reversal of the ordinary type of warship, and she had the advantage of being impervious to torpedo attack. Loaded torpedoes had been fired at her and had burst like eggs against a wall, with no more effect than to make her heel over a few degrees to the other side. Submarines had attacked her and got their noses badly bruised in the process.
On February 3,1852, at a spot near Buenos Aires, the man of might who, like his contemporary Francia in Paraguay, had held the Argentine Confederation in thralldom for so many years, went down to final defeat. Embarking on a British warship he sailed for England, there to become a quiet country gentleman in a land where gauchos and dictators were unhonored.
"Now, let's go and have a look at my aerial warship. I haven't shown it to you yet. Then we'll get ready for that mysterious Frenchman, if he comes but I don't believe he will." The young inventor unlocked the door of the shed where he kept his latest "pet," and at the sight which met his eyes Ned Newton uttered an exclamation of surprise. "Tom, what is it?" he cried in an awed voice.
As her cable rattled through her hawsepipes, down went the red ensign and up went the Spanish colours, and a boat full of armed men dashed alongside the Nouvelle Bretagne, and in another five minutes Captain Henry was a prisoner, handcuffed, and on his way to the warship. What he had done at Manila was a daring deed enough, and is a story in itself, and nothing much to his discredit.
I will describe the manner in which a warship undertakes the search of a merchantman: Through flag signals the merchantman is bidden to stop immediately; if he does not obey, the warship makes his orders more imperative by firing blank shot as a warning. If then the merchantman tries to escape, the warship is justified in hitting the runaway.
"It may not be as bad as you seem to think, senor capitan," replied Jack, hoping to encourage the commander. But all that he could say was in vain. The Chilian warship, as the stranger really was, continued to keep up its firing, though the Peruvian vessel had not fired a gun. Jack anxiously watched the approach of their pursuer, feeling that his fortune, if not his life, was at stake.
She wants you to tell that story again, about the bishop who rang the door bell." The next morning the captain of the King's Own came ashore and was taken to the château for dejeuner. Late in the afternoon, the Marquess and his party, saying farewell to the Princess and the revived legatees, put out to the yacht and steamed away in the wake of the great warship.
The sailors will soon land, and you can then descend in perfect safety." The boom of a cannon came from the sea. Instinctively the girl ducked for safety, though her companion smiled at her fears, for the shell would have long preceded the report, had it traveled their way. "One of the remaining sampans has got under way," he explained, "and the warship is firing at her."
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