The water which yields this salt works in from out of the sea through a hole in the sandbank before mentioned, like a sluice, and that only in spring tides when it fills the pond more or less, according to the height of the tides.
I thought they would follow us: but there being for a while a sandbank between us and them, that they could not then see us, we made a halt, and hid ourselves in a bending of the sandbank.
Another sandbank some way on the left they named Grey Crow Island, because a grey or hooded crow rose from it.
The sandbank or islet in front was concealed, the water running over it, but its site was marked by boiling surge.
Off ROUND HILL there is a sandbank covered by the sea; it lies about two miles from the shore, and about East-North-East from Round Hill summit.
Ten miles North 26 degrees East from Red Island, and South 71 degrees West from Freycinet's Island, is a dry sandbank surrounded by a reef.
In hauling round this point, you must not shoalen your water, on the south side, to less than four fathoms, as the sandbank projects for a mile and a quarter from Middle Head.
In some strange way or other, then, long before Columbus set foot upon the low sandbank of Cat's Island, the banana had been transported from Africa or India to the Western hemisphere.
But there are other aliens of older settlement amongst us, aliens of American origin which nevertheless arrived in Britain, in all probability, long before Columbus ever set foot on the low basking sandbank of Cat Island.
The value of the shelter this anchorage affords is in some measure destroyed by the presence of a sandbank extending off three miles from the eastern side of Preservation Island.
The capacious bay, formerly known as the Bay of St Lawrence from a religious house long since demolished, is protected by a sandbank that ends here, and is hence known as the Tail of the Bank.
So we embarked on a ship, and as we were sailing along in it, through the sea, we suddenly saw a great sandbank in the middle of the ocean.
Who would ever expect to see a sandbank suddenly start up in the middle of the ocean, or such maidens upon it?
British navy; receives its name from a long "spit" of sandbank jutting out from the mainland.
I've got a biggish bill against those beggars on that sandbank yonder for the mischief they've done.
A small boat, leaving the schooner, moved slowly, with a regular beat of two oars, towards the sandbank to take me off.
We again set off early with clear pleasant weather, and halted about ten for breakfast, above a sandbank which was falling in, and near a small willow island.
We set off early and passed a high range of hills on the south side, our periogues being obliged to go over to the south in order to avoid a sandbank which was rapidly falling in.
I at once observed that he must pass a shallow sandbank favorable for landing a heavy fish; I therefore checked him as he reached this spot, and I followed him down the bank, reeling up line as I ran parallel with his course.
I never saw such an extraordinary show of crocodiles as were exposed on every sandbank on the sides of the river.
Now Dr Hamel has recently rendered it probable that no such island or sandbank is in existence, and so we need not seek for its inhabitants: at all events, there is no such bird as the Nazarene Dodo--Didus Nazarenus.
About the middle of the dry season his village went off to a sandbank about three hours {49} upstream from here, on a fishing expedition.
As we swung out from the side channel into the river, day broke, and enabled us to see along the huge sandbanksome 350 yards ahead some dark lines moving about in the water.
Plainly on this last morsel of the fatal sandbank the word surrender must be spoken, unless the advancing trumpets of Maurice should now be heard.
Upon that miserable sandbank more than a hundred thousand men had laid down their lives by her decree, in order that she and her husband might at last take possession of a most barren prize.
He was beginning to think that a slight error in the compass course had taken them past the low-lying and almost invisible sandbank for which they were steering.
I wonder what the idea is of landing a quantity of gear on a sandbank like Latham Island?
H'm, not much of a craft to make a voyage to a sandbank twenty-three miles from land," remarked Denbigh.
Ahead lay the sandbank on which were hidden provisions in plenty.
On the sea side they were defended by the sandbank and shoals.
They found our three galleons, which, for greater security, had been anchored between a sandbank made by the sea and a small island near Malaca.
The sandbank was called Haul-round Islet and the island Entrance Island.
As we approached the point we were obliged to haul off for there was evidently a shoal communication between it and the island, and every appearance of its being connected with the sandbank in the offing.
About six miles off the east coast of Kent there is a sandbank known as the Goodwin Sands, extending for a distance of ten miles, between the North Foreland and the South Foreland.
In response the lifeboat Bradford was manned; but on this occasion she was found to be hard and fast on a sandbank in the harbour.
It was in anticipation of this that the others clung to the shelter of the sandbank and I was left to work alone.
The first few loads escaped with comparatively few casualties, but soon the fire was so hot and accurate that practically not a man got to the shelter of the 10 to 12-foot high sandbank beyond the narrow strip of sand.
However, I much prefer living on chunks of anything out at the dressing station, and sleeping on a few rushes spread on the bottom of a shallow hole, to the comforts and safety of our base in the sandbank of Suvla Bay.
The only person the Turk could see was myself, the sandbank protecting the others from view, and at least seven or eight bullets spluttered round me in the water.
On a sandbank containing twenty nests it is possible to pick out ten eggs, each of which differs so greatly from the others that the casual observer would certainly say they all belonged to different species.
The nest is a chamber, rather larger than a cricket ball, which the cock and hen, working turn about, scoop out of a sandbank with beak and claw.
They needn't starve on their sandbank because they have two or three dugouts hauled up on the sand and they may ferry themselves and their women to the mainland whenever they like.
These men stole down the creek in a canoe and when on the sea coast swam from sandbank to sandbank until they approached unobserved--I think--to about fifty yards from that schooner What can that craft be?
One misty morning I moved the brig nearer the sandbank and directly the mist cleared I opened fire on the praus of those savages which were anchored in the channel.
Suddenly his eyes caught on a distant sandbank the red gleam of Daman's camp fire instantly eclipsed like the wink of a signalling lantern along the level of the waters.
But as a sailorman I looked upon myself as left in charge of two ships while within half a mile on that sandbank there were more than a hundred piratical cut-throats watching me as closely as so many tigers about to leap.
Mrs. Travers lingered for a moment near the boat as if afraid of the strange solitude of this lonely sandbank and of this lone sea that seemed to fill the whole encircling universe of remote stars and limitless shadows.
How the lady could suddenly appear at sunrise waving her handkerchief from the sandbank he could not understand.
When our boats shove off for the sandbank have the forecastle gun fired.
As Sharp had shot a brace of hippo in our pool, we had them dragged out on to thesandbank opposite, and built a grass screen at the lower end of the hippo tunnel which led down through the bush from the high ground above the river.
Liner manoeuvre of violently charging a sandbank in the bay of Beira on a flood-tide, to the ear-smashing accompaniment of the German National Anthem.
Not far from Caernarvon a sandbank commences, extending for miles up the Menai, towards Bangor, and dividing the strait into two.
Mountain, bay and sandbank were bathed in sunshine; the water was perfectly calm; nothing was moving upon it, nor upon the shore, and I thought I had never beheld a more beautiful and tranquil scene.
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