The tide failed us opposite the opening of Loch Alsh; the wind, long dying, at length died out into a dead calm; and we cast anchor in ten fathoms water, to wait the ebbing current that was to carry us through Kyle Rhea.
It was dark night ere we had passed Isle Ornsay, and morning broke as we cast anchorin the Bay of Glenelg.
Our men strove in vain to gain the harbour; the wind overtook us, and we cast anchor in three fathoms, with two miles of shoaly water between us and the land on our lee.
At length, on rounding a low point, higher land again appeared on the right bank of the river, and the village of Aveyros hove in sight, in the port of which we cast anchor late in the afternoon.
Towards night, we were obliged to cast anchor over a shoal in the middle of the river to await the ebb tide.
After we had made five or six miles of way, the tide turned and we were obliged to cast anchor.
Rather late in the evening we cast anchor opposite a village of no note.
He was obliged to cast anchor, and at daybreak to send a boat ashore with us.
We cast anchor in the harbour of Lavalette at seven o'clock.
They lowered sail, cast anchor, and forbore all offensive demonstrations.
Instead of boldly approaching, they were seen to cast anchor and to send out one of their boats.
He steered for the north-west, and upon the 19th of September, after a voyage which was too fortunate to supply any incidents, he cast anchor in the Tinian harbour.
From thence they went to the shores of New Guinea, and after crossing the Moluccas, cast anchor at Batavia.
It was consequently impossible to cast anchor, or to use the capstan.
Upon the morning of the 6th, after three days devoted to tacking about and reconnoitring the coast in search of a roadstead, Bougainville decided to cast anchor in the bay he had seen the first day of his arrival.
Soon afterwards we left the shore, and in the morning we cast anchor in Orsara, a seaport of Istria.
The moment he cast anchor, the bailo hoisted his flag of captain-general of the Venetian navy, and the proveditore hauled down his own colours.
The crew here enjoyed the rest so fully earned, from the 7th June to the 20th July, when Kotzebue set sail for New Archangel on the American coast, where he cast anchor on the 7th August.
On the 4th May, the Nadiejeda cast anchor in St. Helena Bay, sixty days' voyage from the Sunda Isles and seventy-nine from Macao.
Each night he cast anchor, that he might not be driven far from the shore, and at length reached that eastern extremity of the coast where it ends abruptly in the Cape Gracias a Dios.
Gama arrived off the bar of the Kiliman on January 24, cast anchor, and sent the smallest of his vessels, the Berrio, within, to take soundings.
As it was necessary to find out where we were, we cast anchor.
Following the course of Cordova, we arrived in eight days at Champoton[1], where we cast anchor a league from the shore, on account of the water being very shoal at low ebbs.
Here he cast anchor in a channel near a small island in which there are six or seven houses appointed for persons who are afflicted with the leprosy, who come there to be cured.
Upon Thursday, being the feast of the Epiphany, 6th January, we cast anchor near a river called Yebra by the Indians, but which the admiral named Belem or Bethlem, because we came to it on the festival of the three kings.
He cast anchor in this bay, where he procured refreshment of fish and oysters, which the Indians had in great abundance.
It was a very high mountain, at the foot of which we saw a great town, and having a fresh wind we soon reached the harbour, where we cast anchor.
The tempest continued several days, and brought us before the port of an island, where the captain was very unwilling to enter; but we were obliged to cast anchor there.
Though it was night when he cast anchor in the port, the captain landed immediately, and taking Prince Camaralzaman with him hastened to the palace, where he demanded to be introduced to the king.
I cast anchor at Fayal, exactly eighteen days from Cape Sable.
Then I trimmed her sails by the wind, took the helm, and flogged her up the couple of miles or so abreast the harbor landing, where I cast anchor at 3:30 P.
On the 16th of July, after considerable care and some skill and hard work, the Spray cast anchorat Apia, in the kingdom of Samoa, about noon.
Aernem making a sign with her flag that she could not manage to heave her anchor, wecast anchor again.
West wind with a hard gale, with which we sailed along the coast; about noon we cast anchor in 12 fathom clayey bottom without any shelter from the W.
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