Oonalaska harbor, and at nine o'clock we dropped anchor in the dark about half a mile from the town.
We ran into shoal water, dropped anchor, and tried to protect ourselves by crawling in under the leaking decks.
Scarcely had we dropped anchor than a boat from his Majesty's ship Niger boarded us.
The weather held fine and our voyage was speedy, and on the ever-to-be-remembered 13th of May we sighted the entrance of Port Royal harbour, where we dropped anchorin the afternoon.
No sooner had we dropped anchor than a great number of natives came on board.
But when the Shawnee dropped anchor in the reef-bound harbour, Captain Lucy found that he had come on a vain quest--the mutineers' boat had not been seen.
It was three days before the brig dropped anchor in the Pool.
The wind was contrary, and it was not until the last day of August that he dropped anchor in the Medway.
Accordingly we dropped anchor in thirty fathoms; and then a boat was dispatched to examine whether it was practicable to land, of which I had some doubt, as the sea broke in a dreadful surf all along the shore.
The 25th, in the evening, having a very thick fog, and but little wind, we dropped anchor in thirty fathoms water.
The pilot came off early, and soon after six we dropped anchor in Galle harbour.
After a short delay we dropped anchor, and just as the sun was setting in 'purple and gold' behind the mountains of Arabia, we went ashore in the steam launch.
No reply being vouchsafed to his flag of truce, Lord Exmouth bore up to the attack, and the Queen Charlotte dropped anchor in the entrance of the Mole, some fifty yards off, and was lashed to a mast which was made fast to the shore.
The Turks hugged the land, dropped anchor at night, and kept a sharp look-out.
I took his counsel, and at noon next day we dropped anchor at Balaklava.
Into this we sailed, the mangroves closing about us, till we dropped anchor in a mirrored pond.
At the end of two hours, having come a mile into the bay, we dropped anchor in eleven fathoms.
When we dropped anchor, lowered a small boat into the water, and started ashore, the Nature Man joined us.
Early in the morning we went on board the French steamer Dante at Malta, and after a two days' pleasant sea voyage, dropped anchor in the Bay of Naples.
Dropped anchor in the harbour of Alexandria at a quarter to eight in the morning.
In the nick of time, however, the waves moderated, and after a weary voyage and many adventures Columbus dropped anchor in the harbor at Palos from which he had sailed months before.
After cruising along the western coast of what is now Florida, and being unable to find a proper harbor there, Hawkins set sail for Mexico and dropped anchorat a Spanish port in that country.
And at last he dropped anchor triumphantly in Plymouth harbor after a voyage that had lasted three years.
In sailing north he dropped anchor at a harbor not far from the Golden Gate, and here he had his first experience with North American Indians.
Illustration: Meigg's Wharf in 1856] About dusk our rakish cutter drifted into the shelter of the hills along the north shore of the bay, and with a chorus of enthusiastic cheers we dropped anchor in two fathoms of soft mud.
The next day we laid a course for Poor Luck Harbour, with a fair wind; an' we dropped anchor in the cove that night.
We caught sight of the Word of the Lord beating down from the south in light winds--and guessed her errand--long before that trim little schooner dropped anchor in the basin.
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