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Perhaps it had been thus marked by the carpenter who made the case, or it may have been put on to guide the sailors in lading the vessel. Be that as it may, it gave me an idea; and in less than three minutes I knew my stature to an inch. I ascertained it in the following manner: I laid myself down alongside the box, and close in to its edge.
This is done by means of a bill of lading, to which is attached a draft. The shipper bills the goods to himself at the point to which they were ordered. To the bill of lading he attaches a draft for the sum involved, but this, instead of being forwarded to the consignee by mail, is sent to him through a bank for collection.
So it went on till the large total of sixty sestertia was offered, whereon the Eastern advanced two more, at which price, amidst the laughter of the audience, she was knocked down to him. "You know me and that the money is safe," he said to the auctioneer. "It shall be paid to you to-morrow; I have enough to carry without lading myself up with so much gold.
Captain Burroughs his rheumatism more troublesome than ever was also present, with his hands full of invoices and bills of lading to which he referred from time to time for information in reply to some question from Mr Marshall; and soon the winches began to creak and the main hatch to disgorge its contents, while a crowd of those curious and idle loafers who, like the poor, are always with us, quickly gathered upon the wharf to gapingly watch the process of unloading the cargo.
But the beautiful river, with frequent bluffs of sand and woods, flowing two hundred yards wide in stately tide, and bearing up to Cannon's Ferry fish-boats and pungies, Yankee schooners and woodscows, and the signs of life, however lowly, that floated in blue smoke from many hearths, or sounded in oars, rigging, and lading, seemed to Hulda human joy and power, and she cried to Levin: "Levin, oh, look!
If I told the truth, then I should have to admit that the lading of the vessel was piratical plunder; and though I knew not how the law stood with regard to booty rescued from certain destruction after the lapse of hard upon half a century, yet it was a hundred to one that the whole would be claimed in the king's name under a talk of restitution, which signified that we should never hear more of it.
The captain walks the deck thoughtfully, and frowningly ruminates on his bill of lading or on some over-charge in the dock duties or, it may be, on his dispute on shore with a part owner of the vessel.
"Know what he is a fool." "What do you mean?" "He's come after the place." "Is he there?" "Yes." "What's he like?" "Not bad looking; fair " "Idiot! I mean is he smart?" "Just at present got all his Sunday clothes on." "Send him in to me. Don't go, don't go." "How can I send him in to you if I don't go?" "Take these. Have you finished those bills of lading?" "No."
His lading was finished on Monday night, and he attempted once more to gain the north by breaking open the ice-bank; but after dangerous efforts he was forced to resign himself, and to go down Regent's Channel again; he would not stop at Port Leopold, which, open to-day, might be closed again to-morrow by an unexpected displacement of ice-fields, a very frequent phenomenon in these seas, and which navigators ought particularly to take into consideration.
James Hutchison, also of New York, deposed before the British consul, that "the goods specified in the annexed bills of lading were shipped on board the schooner Crenshaw, for, and on account of, subjects of Her Britannic Majesty, and that the said goods are wholly and bonâ fide the property of British subjects."
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