This little incident clarified the air on the pilotage question.
Gladly I bade him come along, figuring that his pilotage would give me a better chance of avoiding the dreaded "Douse.
In fact, want of good pilotage summed up the fault of the expedition, from its inception in the Cabinet throughout all the antecedent steps of consultation and preparation.
The kidnapped skipper of the dhow, it seemed, had done his pilotage with a fine accuracy.
I got it ashore right enough to the pilotage here in Banana, and for the next two weeks thought it was my ju-ju without further palaver.
And if you're hinting at Mrs. Nilssen in the pilotage there, she's as staunch as you are, bless her dusky skin.
I've libbed for Lower Congo all my time; had a home in the pilotage here; and got a dash of a case of champagne, or an escribello, or at least a joint of fresh meat out of the refrigerator from every steamboat I took either up or down.
Nor must the old establishment be confounded with the modern fungus that continued its name under the pilotage of an enterprising Jew, and eventually got closed by the police for developing into an ordinary night house.
A new "Bombay Marine," consisting of a few small vessels engaged in the local transport and pilotage service of that port, similar to one that had already come into existence at Calcutta, was thereupon instituted.
I was just fourteen days from the time I anchored off the bar till I reached the dock where I was to discharge cargo, and for towage and pilotage alone from the bar to the dock, paid $1,009.
Had their Journal gone on well, and I could have aided to make it better for them, I should then have left them, after my safe pilotage off a lee shore, to make a prosperous voyage by themselves.
I therefore begged the first lieutenant to order my certificate of pilotage to be made out, and to inquire if I could take anything down to Deal for the captain.
To tell you the truth, Jack, this two hundred pounds, which I earned so easily, has just come in the right time, and with it and my pilotage I shall now be able to do what I have long wished.
It may be as well here to remark that the system of pilotage is different now from what it used to be at the period of which I am writing.
Altogether, I made up my mind that I would take the first ship that was offered for pilotage up the river, that I might know more of what was going on; and, as we sat down to supper, I mentioned my intentions to Bramble.
The arrangements for pilotage have been much improved of late years, and those employed are better qualified.
Pilotage dues on sections of the river, or where it appears necessary to establish stations of certificated pilots.
The Commission will draw up, without delay, the arrangements for the navigation, river police, pilotage and quarantine.
Under the pilotage of his private jinrikisha-man, I spend a portion of the afternoon in making a flying visit to various places of interest.
Now flung aloft, now sunk in trough of the sea, your Vessel of the Republic has need of all pilotage and more.
It was nervous work for a ship-master to carry his vessel on a coast, under such pilotage as this.
The chances were about even; for I regarded the pilotage as a very random sort of an affair.
We beg tull advise you thot we conseeder thus pilotage an onnecessary expense which should no be uncurred un the future.
If the size and nature of the covert will admit, you had better go into it with the hounds, and on this occasion, but no other, I think it is permissible to make use of the huntsman's pilotage at a respectful distance.
Pilotage between Kirkcudbright and Carlaverock, for that time 0 2 0 L.
Pilotage and other expenses incurred in entering any port.
Pilotage and other dues incurred from any port: the reverse of inward charges.
Works supplied by the admiralty to Her Majesty's ships, which advise the navigator as to the pilotage of coasts and islands throughout the world.
And thus it came to pass that thePilotage Provisional Order No.
How is a man to vote when the question abruptly submitted is, "That the Pilotage Provisional Orders No.
Accordingly, to-day, meeting in the freshness and vigour of new week, House takes up a local Bill dealing with pilotage in Bristol Channel.
Sir Thomas Graves, afterward second in command to Nelson in the attack at Copenhagen in 1801,--an enterprise fully as desperate and encompassed with greater difficulties of pilotage than the one here advocated.
Now as the mention of a reserve prompted one set of considerations, so the name of pilotage suggests certain ideas, broader than itself, which modify what has been said of keeping the admiral with the reserve.
