For example, suppose this ship should be cast away on the coast of Nova Scotia, and all the passengers and baggage be saved, what could you do there without any money.
When a ship approaches the coast and sees one of these pilot boats, it makes a signal for a pilot to come on board.
When the children went on deck the next morning, the southern coast of Ireland was all in full view.
In 1810, citizens of the United States, who had formed a settlement on the north-west coast of North America, were embarrassed in their intercourse with China, by the Chinese mistaking American for Russian vessels.
The port has been neglected and suffered to be silted up, although the rock-bound coast possesses no better harbour of refuge for storm-tossed boats.
On the sea-coast these men enter into very hot discussions, use expressions somewhat rough and coarse, but rarely come to blows.
But then came the days of steam; the iron road was carried along the coast from Perpignan to Barcelona, and Le Boulou’s occupation and prosperity were gone never to return.
In process of time the sons of Chus also, (after their expulsion from Egypt) made settlements upon the sea coast of Africa, and came into Mauritania.
As you near the coast the road runs through very level country, and between the railway and the pine wood lies a strip of marshy ground about forty feet wide.
Yet myself I saw this: I saw the harbor-master of Kabinda, a settlement of white men on the west coast of Africa, come aboard the monthly steamer to get the mail.
Thus on the Guinea Coast almost every village has its sacred tree, and in some parts offerings are still made to them.
The other great centre on the east coast in those years was in Durham and Northumberland[694].
Here the suggestion is that the prevalence of plague on the opposite coast of Ireland had given rise to a minor and "more remiss" contagion along the coasts of North Wales, Cheshire and Lancashire.
The fleet then sailed southwards along the coast of the mainland to Cartagena, which was captured in turn, and in like manner held to ransom.
Off the coast of Brazil in November and December two men died "of the disease called scorbuto, which is an infection of the blood and the liver.
I firmly believe that young scoundrel, who will be hanged yet, strung us on after Moran ever so far down south, just to leave the coast clear for the Marstons, and then sent me this, too late to be of any use.
We dursn't go there straight, of course, but nigh enough to make a dart to it whenever we had word that the coast was clear.
Embryos and idiots, eremites and friars, A violent cross wind from eithercoast Blew them transverse.
The Mariner steamed three miles along the coast to Baymouth, and here the first lieutenant was landed in the dinghy to make inquiries.
I don't much fancy running along within a mile of the coast if we can't see a yard in front of our faces.
The coast was reputed to bristle with weapons, some of them of prodigious range, and the men in the destroyer hoped fervently that they might not be victims of his wrath.
Then on to the west coast of Scotland for a cruise, and finally back to Portland again.
Before long they could see the hostile coast itself as a thin, blue-gray streak punctuated here and there by the spires and houses of the coast towns, magnified out of all proportion by the deceptive light.
They were somewhere near the German coast at the time, so perhaps that accounted for his expression of contempt.
Well, sir, I told him that the military people at Baymouth had reported a suspicious craft off the coast yesterday evening.
One dark winter evening the Mariner and three other destroyers were groping their way back toward the British coast after being at sea for two days and two nights.
When the Mariner struggled home to her east coast port after the engagement, Martin was one of the first to be packed off to the local hospital.
Then the whole line of coast suddenly began to sparkle from end to end, and before one had time to think the shell were pitching.
One Korean child said, "Do we have to put in that little group of islands east of the coast of China?
In between the two lighthouses vague, dim, mist-belted mountains of the China coastloomed through the dusk.
This morning and all day long we have been sailing past the huge outlines of mountainous Formosa, that rich island off the coast of China, between Shanghai and Manila.
He is a native of the coast of Guinea in Africa, and has a very short tail or no tail at all; his face is furrowed, and so much resembles that of a dog, that he is often spoken of as a dog-faced monkey.
But besides these numerous fortifications, the whole coast of the island is protected by forts and batteries, towers and redoubts.
On one wall is a huge map of the whole war zone from the coast to the Swiss border.
Yet in a few short months two great blind fighting giants, their arms stretching from the Belgian coast to the Swiss border, learned to see each other; and their eyes were in the air.
SMITH Cape Cod has many fine distinctions that make it stand out from a commonplace world and Wellfleet, as a town name, marks the Cape with a place-name known all over the globe, but in no other locality than on the coast of Barnstable Bay.
Barnstable; town, county and bay, take their name from Barnstaple on thecoast of Devon.
As the morning wore on, the Australian coast gradually loomed up before us, the land first seen proving to be Cape Bridgewater.
We hardly notice the absurdity of the situation itself, and are little troubled by the magic arts which enable her persecutor to remove all rocks from the coast of Brittany.
The ship is driven to thecoast of Spain, where a certain heathen Admiral befriends her.
The western coast of Celebes, for about 250 miles, is absolutely lined with proas belonging principally to three considerable rajahs, who act in conjunction with Raga and other pirates.
He kept along the coast to the southward, and took a French ship of 18 guns, laden with wine and brandy, bound for the South Sea, which he carried with him into the River of Platte.
John Spelt, commander, hired by the South Sea company, to go to the coast of Angola for slaves, and thence to Buenos Ayres.
Illustration: The crews of Black Beard's and Vane's vessels carousing on the coast of Carolina.
In the spring of 1719, the pirates returned to Africa, and beginning at the river Gambia, sailed down the coast to Cape Corso, and captured several vessels.
The path led to one of those watchtowers which the Spaniards keep on the coast to give timely notice of the approach of privateers.
From hence he stood away for the coast of Brazil, and in his cruize took several Portuguese ships, which he plundered and let go.
From Carolina he cruised on the coast of Virginia, where he took and plundered several merchantmen, and forced several men, and then returned to the coast of Carolina, where he did abundance of mischief.
They swarmed in the Mediterranean, not only belonging to Algiers, but Tunis, and other ports on the coast of Barbary.
What becomes of the walrus in winter it is hard to say; but I have heard them blowing in an open pool of water among the ice on the north coast of Spitzbergen in the month of December.
It was rejected by the earliest Christian community in India; for we find no traces of it in the Syrian church on the coast of Malabar today.
Many thousands of the poor fishermen on the coast was he permitted to baptize into the Christian faith.
Again, from the southern boundaries of these plains gradually rises a very extensive three-sided table-land reaching towards the coast on both eastern and western sides, and extending to Cape Comorin on the south.
Perhaps the most interesting colony of them is that on the west coast in Cochin.
Mills, who was the leader in the early band of students whose zeal led to the organization of the American Board, found his field of service on the West coast of Africa, whence also he was early called to his heavenly reward.
Such persons should seek a coast climate and a low altitude, which is sedative, rather than risk the high and dry interior.
Thursday, 9th of August The Admiral was not able to reach Gomera until the night of Sunday, while Martin Alonso remained on that coast of Gran Canaria by order of the Admiral, because his vessel could not be navigated.
Along the whole coast no inhabited places were visible from the sea.
My wish was to follow the coastof this island to the S.
All the coast was clear of dangers up to the shore.
It appears to be a large island, with the coast almost like that of Española, and the distance between them is about ten leagues.
The Englishman John Davis, in 1585, visited the western coast of Greenland, but found no Europeans.
On all the coast he found that the groves reached to the sea, the most beautiful coast that eyes ever saw.
Thence he steered along the coast eastward to Cabo Cinquin about 48 miles, 20 of them being on an E.
As we moved along the coast the people manifested a sense of insecurity, and when we reached the spot to which we were bound all the natives had fled.
He believed that all the people on the coast were fishermen, who took the fish inland, for this island is very large, and so beautiful, that he is never tired of praising it.
As soon as he heard from the Indians that the Admiral was on the coast of the same island of Española, and that he could not avoid him, Pinzon came to him.
Meanwhile the Dalmatian coast towns remained a bone of contention between Venice and Hungary; but the marble Lions on their battered walls are still the best proof of the triumph of Italian culture within them.
In other words, such a settlement would lead to an almost idyllic reduction of naval armaments in the Adriatic, since both Italy and the new Jugoslavia could afford to restrict themselves to a minimum of coast defence.
