The supporting force unmolested in the Bight of Heligoland.
Two light cruisers, with eight destroyers of the Third Flotilla, sailed from Harwich for the Bight of Heligoland at 5.
The little fleet made straight for the Bight and reached a position some twelve miles north of Heligoland by 6.
The height chosen was scarcely sufficient for manoeuvring in so gusty a wind and with no previous acquaintance with the conduct of the machine and its controlling mechanisms.
By the spring of 1910 many aeroplanes were at work on the Brooklands ground, most of them running about it in the earnest endeavour to get up sufficient speed to rise into the air.
About nine o'clock on the morrow, when the Sorata was lying in a bight on the south coast of Vancouver Island, he was aroused by the dory bumping alongside, and he went out on deck.
Well, you want another knot or two out of her until you have the big bight to lee of you?
In a curving bight of the shore the creaking of oars in their rowlocks began to be distinctly heard, but the boat itself, although apparently only its length from the sands, was invisible.
Bending the bightof the shot-line around the whip is not recommended, as the portion inshore is liable to foul the whip.
XX THE FOLK AT WOLF BIGHT The Grays were very lonely and the little cabin at Wolf Bightseemed desolate and deserted indeed during the first days following the departure of the trappers for the interior.
It had increased considerably, but Shad had set his heart upon reaching Wolf Bight that night, and he did not wish to stop.
Like a vague, pleasant dream of something experienced in a previous life, he remembered Bob and the tilts, Wolf Bight farther back, and the dear old college.
Illustration: The Figure of Eight Knot] Make a bight as before.
Make a bight with one rope A, B, then pass end C of other rope up through and around the entire bight and bend it under its own standing part.
Pass the end of the other rope across the bightthus formed, back of the standing part B over the end A, then under the bight at C, passing it over its own standing part and under the bight again at D.
Back the end around the standing part and up through the bight and draw tight.
Pass the end up through the bight around the standing part and down through the bight again.
Illustration: Halter, Slip, or Running Knot] A bight is first formed and an overhand knot made with the end around the standing part.
The river Lundu disembogues itself into the bay just beyond the point of the same name; and the land on its far bank forms a bight of considerable depth.
I have not been able to learn that any Malay towns of importance are situated in the bight of Malludu Bay, and their absence will render a friendly communication with the aborigines a matter of comparative ease.
It is situated in the bightof the bay, eastward of Bonthian.
The small Dutch fort, or intrenchment, stands rather on the eastern bight of the bay, and is composed of a few huts, surrounded by a ditch and green bank.
Ambong is a pretty little bay, with a Malay village built in the bight of it, and there is a fine view of Keeney Balloo, the great mountain of Borneo, in the back-ground.
These Submarines have since been incessantly employed on the Enemy’s Coast in the Heligoland Bight and elsewhere, and have obtained much valuable information regarding the composition and movement of his patrols.
The short steep seas which accompany westerly gales in the Heligoland Bight make it difficult to keep the conning tower hatches open.
Service in the Heligoland Bight is keenly sought after by the Commanding Officers of the Eighth Submarine Flotilla, and they have all shown daring and enterprise in the execution of their duties.
Eighth Submarine Flotilla, proceeded to take part in the operations in the Heligoland Bight arranged for August 28th.
I was hanging in my bight of rope from a belaying pin, my feet clear of the perpendicular deck, and my ears tortured by the sound of men overboard crying for help--men who had not lashed themselves.
I just had time to slip into the bight of a rope, and save myself; but I had to give up the ax; it slipped from my hands and slid down to the port scuppers.
When I recovered my senses the remnant of the crew were around me, but the man was gone--dragged out of the bight of the rope that had held him against the force of breaking seas, and down to the flooded main deck, to die like the others.
Upon the prostrate cowpuncher they precipitated themselves with a yell, the boy deftly throwing a bight of the rope about Ken's feet and drawing up the slack.
Tew kure the bight ov a krab, soke the krab's feet in bileing hot water.
We ran up the Carquinez Straits and edged into the bight at Turner's Shipyard for smoother water.
As the bight at Turner's Shipyard opened out, Charley edged into it to get the smoother water.
Fully a month had passed, and we were constantly up and down the river, and down and up the bay, with no spare moments to devote to the particular fisherman who ran a Chinese line in the bight of Turner's Shipyard.
Big Alec has a Chinese line out in the bight off Turner's Shipyard," Charley Le Grant said that afternoon to Carmintel.
He towed his ark around the Solano Wharf and into the big bight at Turner's Shipyard.
The bight we knew to be good ground for sturgeon, and there we felt sure the King of the Greeks intended to begin operations.
Without further parley, Anton seized a coil of small white line, and with the dexterity of a seaman, knotted the end over his neck and beneath one arm, bringing the bight over his shoulder for convenience in swimming.
He then slipped off his trousers--the only garment he had on--and took a few loose coils in his hand, his messmates undertaking to attend to the running out of the bight after him.
The bight of the rope dipped into the water, making a rippled track as the brig rose and fell on the ocean swell.
Nearer the 'city' lies the deep little bight called Susan or Sawpit Bay.
Lastly, there is no island that could support the gorilla: we must go further south for one, to Camarones and Corisoo in the Bight of Benin.
Above bight and bay and island tower the mountains.
Securing themselves by the rope, Andy and Ellerton--the latter having passed a bight round the now conscious and groaning seaman--hung on with desperation.
Anchoring two of the native craft close to the sunken yawl, Ellerton and Andy contrived to pass the bight of a chain under her bows, the ends of the chain being made fast to two stout cables.
