The following morning the signal was made for all captains to repair to the dockyard to receive the Duke of Clarence.
There were two officers here who were most amusing, Captains Miller and Lyall, and when dining with them, which I frequently did, I do not know which I enjoyed most, their dinner or their dry jokes.
It is true the Admiralty have now given orders for captains to make a quarterly return of all punishments inflicted on seamen.
I found one of my old captains commissioner at this place, to whom I gave a turtle, a pig, and a bag of bread dust, for he thought one without the other useless, and for which he did not even invite me to his house.
It must be sent to the Vice-Court of Admiralty at Jamaica as a memento of the fact, and a remembrancer to all Yankee captains who are inclined to be dishonest.
Captains of Commerce are diverted from their own business for the benefit of the country.
Their aims, for all we see, are as personal as if they were captains of banditti; and they are followed merely from self-interest or private attachment.
Twelve captains hurry about London searching for him.
The exploring party that entered this enormous region was under the command of Captains Meriwether Lewis and William Clark.
The boys wished Captains Lewis and Clark the best of fortune, and Lewis complimented them, and especially Deerfoot, for the information they had given him of the region through which they expected to force their way.
Illustration: A Visit from Captains Lewis and Clark.
Patting his nose and softly bidding him good-bye, the Shawanoe hastened back to his friends, who had seated themselves on a fallen tree on one side of the fire, while Captains Lewis and Clark were similarly placed opposite.
A man answered in a clear voice: "This is a United States expedition under Captains Lewis and Clark, on its way to the Pacific Ocean.
Captains Lewis and Clark gained a great deal of valuable knowledge from the boys, who had traversed a large part of the region which they intended to explore.
There he disarmed, being perhaps among all the captains and all the soldiers the man who had fought best.
Tivydale may carp of care, Northumberland may make great moan, For two such captains as slain were there, On the March-party shall never be none.
At last the Douglas and the Perse met, Like to captains of might and of main; They swept together till they both swat, With swords that were of fine myllan.
And David numbered the people that were with him, and set captains of thousands and captains of hundreds over them.
Behold, there came fire down from heaven, and burnt up the two captains of the former fifties with their fifties: therefore let my life now be precious in thy sight.
And all the people heard when the king gave all the captains charge concerning Absalom.
Ephraim and his bravest comrades, who surrounded him as messengers, were now despatched to the northern end of the valley to inform the captains of the troops stationed there of Joshua's intention and command them to advance.
Pharaoh's chariots and his host hath he cast into the sea: his chosen captainsalso are drowned in the Red Sea.
All the captains and officers with Marcellus congratulated him upon this extraordinary success.
The captains of these vessels, thinking that the natives asked too much for their slaves, held a consultation, how they should proceed; and agreed to fire upon the town unless their own terms were complied with.
Edwards, an opponent; and to the testimony of Captains Sir George Yonge and Thompson, of the Royal Navy.
Another instance of African deception was to be found in the testimony of Captain Frazer, one of the most humane captains in the trade.
By means of it, slave-captains might traverse the whole coast of Africa, and see nothing but equitable practices.
But if we could, Who would believe that the British captains would be influenced by any regulations made in this country, to refuse to purchase those who had not been fairly, honestly, and uprightly enslaved?
Hence it was (as several captains of the navy and others had declared on their examination) that the natives, when at sea in their canoes, would never come near the men of war, till they knew them to be such.
He would only observe, that the acts of barbarity, related of the slave-captains in these voyages, were so extravagant, that they had been attributed in some instances to insanity.
Father was inside talking to one of his captains who had just come to port.
Among tobacco growers, townsmen and sea-captains alike he was widely acquainted and respected as much as any man in the colony.
But he figured up the results of the race, and when the captains of all the yachts had come on board of the judges' boat, he announced the prizes and delivered them to the winners, with a little speech.
The captains of the several craft which had sailed in the race then boarded the Penobscot to ascertain the decision of the judges.
I became personally acquainted with seventy-two captains and ninety-six missionaries.
The captains and ministers form one-half of the population; the third fourth is composed of common Kanakas and mercantile foreigners and their families; and the final fourth is made up of high officers of the Hawaiian Government.
The two captains walked over to the scoring bench to arrange the details of the game.
No, and not with the way Luke Fodick captains the team," went on the now fully aroused Teeter.
The dinner broke up finally, and then the various managers and captains got together to arrange the Interscholastic League schedule of games.
Hiram and Luke made remarks, as did the managers and captainsof the other nines.
He induces the Captains to deposit a quantity of goods in his hands, which he sorts into such portions as would form an ordinary load for a man to carry on his head.
Soon after noon I accompanied Captains Owen and Harrison, Mr. Reffle, the acting Judge, and the Rev.
Captains Owen and Harrison, attended by a party of marines, proceeded to a native town, eight miles to the eastward, for the purpose of meeting an old chief, who was said to be the principal one on that part of the island.
One of the English captains remonstrated with a native for going to witness such an exhibition.
Our party consisted of the Lieutenant-Governor, Captains Owen and Harrison, of the navy; Dr.
When these holidays are observed, it is usual for the Duke to invite all the captains and super-cargoes of vessels in the river, when he gives them an excellent dinner, with plenty of palm-wine.
Mr. Jeffery conducted them to Clarence, where an interview took place between Captains Owen and Harrison, and some of the chiefs, at which the former directed a couple of iron hoops to be given as a reward for the recovery of the bill-hook.
Captains Kingston and Rogers, and Lieutenant Calder, of the Royal African Corps; Dr.
Three of the Embassadors from the Swiss Cantons with the usual Ceremonies, himself putting on the Chains, and the Captains of his Guards girding their Swords about them.
About noon the crew of the Britannia were ranged on deck, and the elder of the two French captains called on Robert Eury to step out.
The younger of the captains laughed savagely, and stepped up to him, pistol in hand.
In the morning Mrs. Rossiter was buried; the French captains allowing some of the surviving members of the crew of the Britannia to carry her body to her grave.
Of course, on the receipt of the reports of Captains Macgregor and Goodfellow, the march was again postponed.
All the laches of all the departments are thrown upon its shoulders, and the captains who are doing the work may slave night and day; but unaided and unassisted they can do nothing.
Since then other appointments have been made, and the original captains at present find themselves going gradually down instead of rising in their corps.
The seven other archer captains were also men of great renown; among them were Egbert of Kent and William of Southampton; but those first named were most famous of all.
And now the shooting began, the captains first taking stand and speeding their shafts and then making room for the men who shot, each in turn, after them.
She did not know that her father and other men of the settlement were already beginning to doubt the loyalty of the two captains to America's cause.
Do you not wish our fathers were captains of fine sloops, Luretta, so that perhaps we could go sailing off to Boston?
The government has appointed two commissaries general, or chiefs of police, and twenty commissaries or captains of wards have been appointed to the different wards of the city.
Berg took the opportunity to ask, with great politeness, whether, as was rumored, the allowance of forage money to captains of companies would be doubled.
The two captains went on deck and looked over the side.
The same year Captains White and Hustler arrived and brought the first pilot boat to operate on the Columbia-river bar, the Mary Taylor.
Smith to move down the river from Fort Lane and form a junction with the United States troops under Captains Jones and E.
I changed my plans from day to day, and I went wherever the police captains and the district engineers advised me; nor can I wish anyone better guides than these gentlemen.
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