In such wise Pompeius coasted to Amphipolis,[383] and thence crossed over to Mitylene, wishing to take up Cornelia and her son.
Even supposing Americus to have coasted along the whole northern shore of South America, from Trinidad to Costa-rica, the distance does not exceed twenty-three degrees of longitude, and the coast of Paria or Cumana is scarce 15 degrees.
He coasted along this island to the westwards, admiring its delightful appearance and numerous harbours.
We coasted along for six days, during which time we had a violent storm from the north, by which we were in great danger of being driven on shore.
Upon our nearer approach we found it to be, as we judged, an island; but not knowing its name or whether it was inhabited, we coasted round it two days to satisfy ourselves as to this last particular.
Being thus disappointed as to my island, I made what haste I could back to the rock again and coasted part of its circumference; but though I had gone two or three leagues of its circuit, the prospect it afforded was just the same.
Springing on his wheel he coasted down the humps and into the darkness again.
He coasted past the church and down the gentle incline in front of the parsonage and Joneses, and the Littles and Browns and Gibsons.
They nextcoasted the north side of New Britain and New Guinea, and arrived at Batavia in October, 1616.
We coasted it to its northern extremity, which we did not reach till after dark, at which time we were near enough to the shore to hear the voices of people, who were assembled round a fire they had made on the beach.
Columbus believed when, on his second voyage, he coasted the southern shore of Cuba, that he had touched the continent of Asia.
The survivors reached the Gulf andcoasted along to Pánuco.
Running between Santa Rosa Island and the mainland, they coasted along for thirty days, landing where possible to obtain food or water, but generally finding the natives fierce and hostile.
Niño with the vessels coasted the shore at least as far as the Bay of Fonseca, and thence returned to the Gulf of Nicoya.
The two fleets then separated; Nicuesa standing over to the shore of Castilla del Oro, while Ojeda coasted the western shore of the Gulf of Urabá, and settled at a place to which he gave the name of San Sebastian.
Thence he coasted northward by the mouth of the Rio Dulce (Essequibo) into the Gulf of Paria, which he left by the Boca del Drago.
But his requests were refused, and he coasted the island, casting anchor under lee of the land.
From the Sault de St. Marie, we coasted the northern shore of Lake Superior to Fort William, formerly the great depot of the N.
We coasted this day a flat shore, with dry sands running off to the distance of two or three miles, and we passed within several shoals, on which some heavy ice had grounded.
We coasted this day along the low shore of the lake, steering from point to point to avoid the sinuosities of several deep bays, and passed the mouth of the Sandy and Hay Rivers, whose positions we settled by astronomical observations.
I therefore coasted that side of the island, and that I might be sure not to miss the bay, I sent out the lieutenant with the boat and a proper number of hands, to keep in-shore a-head of the ship.
As I coastedthis island, I found the current set very strong to the southward along the shore, till I came to the south end of it, where I found it run N.
For they were watched, as they coasted along out of the gulf, by Phormio, who wished to attack in the open sea.
Received by the Naxians, they then coastedon to Catana, and being refused admittance by the inhabitants, there being a Syracusan party in the town, went on to the river Terias.
That very night they set sail in haste just as they were, and, hugging the shore of the Chersonese, coasted along to Elaeus, in order to sail out into the open sea away from the fleet of the enemy.
While the Athenians were thus detained in Crete, the Peloponnesians in Cyllene got ready for battle, and coasted along to Panormus in Achaea, where their land army had come to support them.
From Tarentum Gylippus first went on an embassy to Thurii, and claimed anew the rights of citizenship which his father had enjoyed; failing to bring over the townspeople, he weighed anchor and coasted along Italy.
Phormio also coasted along to Molycrian Rhium, and anchored outside it with twenty ships, the same as he had fought with before.
Nicias with his sixty ships coasted alongshore and ravaged the Locrian seaboard, and so returned home.
Immediately upon his return the generals manned and victualled sixty ships out of the whole fleet and coasted along to Naxos, leaving the rest of the armament behind them at Rhegium with one of their number.
The former had coasted along Adélie Land, and for sixty miles of ice cliff to the west of it.
They coasted back, making for an inlet known as Balloon Bight.
These they left behind them and, unable to say what land they had reached, for their watches had run down, they coasted on westwards and southwards until winter approached.
As we coasted to try and find a landing-place the sun was rising behind the island, which reaches to a height of two thousand feet, and the jagged cliffs stood up finely against the rosy sky.
Scott landed at Cape Adare and then coasted down the western coast of Victoria Land just as Ross had done sixty years before.
No one of us whose privilege it was to be there will forget our first sight of the penguins, our first meal of seal meat, or that first big berg along which we coasted close in order that London might see it on the film.
In brilliant sunshine we coasted down Victoria Land.
We read that on leaving McMurdo Sound the Terra Nova coasted eastward along the Barrier face, with Campbell and his men who were to be landed on King Edward VII.
Ross coasted along the Barrier for some 250 miles from Cape Crozier, as he called the eastern extremity of Ross Island, after the commander of the Terror.
One day I made an excursion with him in his canoe, and we coastedinside of the coral barrier for a long distance.
But, having got clear, we coasted along New Ireland in order to get the land breeze.
I coasted along till the evening and then brought to, and lay by till the next morning.
On the 25th of August we still coasted alongshore, that we might the better see any opening; kept sounding, and had about 20 fathom clean sand.
We coastedalong the island St. Jago and passed by the port on the east of it I mentioned formerly which they call Praya; where some English outward-bound East-Indiamen still touch, but not so many of them as heretofore.
The land we saw was about 20 leagues to the north of Bahia; so I coasted alongshore to the southward.
They coasted past the islands at the harbor-mouth, and, driven by a stout breeze, were soon careening over the waves upon their journey to Greenland.
Not pleased with their reception, the navigators coasted northward, passed the rocky promontory of Cape Ann, the wind-ripped Isles of Shoals, and finally reached Portland Harbor.
The voyagerscoasted along the low-lying shore, admiring the view, and finally saw a canoe approaching in which was a handsome youth, the messenger from a native chieftain Sannatowah.
A good deal of treasure had been gathered as the adventurers coasted along, and this was sent back to Panama, under the care of Almagro, who was instructed to bring reënforcements.
So the Spaniards coasted along by the booming surf and at length reached a sheltered bay which they called the Bay of the Holy Cross.
In the following voyage, his last, Columbus coastedpart of the Isthmus of Darien.
They coasted the continent southward, "ever with intent to find the passage to India," till they reached the peninsula now called Florida.
Then he set sail in it, accompanied by a few smaller vessels, andcoasted along the North Sea.
As the captain would not believe La Salle and turn back, they coasted on until they finally landed at Mat-a-gor´da Bay, in Texas.
Still searching for the wonderful city of the fabulous ruler who ate and drank from vessels of pure gold, Columbus coasted along Cuba.
A quiet night's rest had completely restored the passengers, who came on deck early, and watched with interest the rocky shore of the Morea as they coasted along it.
We stood on one end and held the other, using the inside of the bark for the outside, and thus coasted down long hills with remarkable speed.
From hence Aeneas coasted along the shore of Sicily and passed the country of the Cyclopes.
Aeneas, following the advice of Helenus, shunned the dangerous pass and coasted along the island of Sicily.
He stretched over to Madagascar, and coasted along this Island to the Northward, as far as the most northerly Point, when turning back, he enter'd a Bay to the northward of Diego Suares.
Who amongst the world's high singers ever breathed the tale sublime Of the man who coasted England in the misty dawn of time?
He that coasted Wales and Dover, he that first saw Sussex plains, Passed away with head unlaurelled in the wild Thessalian rains.
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