The next day, having finished our work within board, and finding our ship was perfectly healed of all her leaks, we set sail.
I answered those Speeches gave them 50 balls one Canister of Powder & a Dram- after Cap Lewis Shot his air gun a few times which astonished the nativs, we Set Sail.
Ferdinand Magellan, seeing that it did not come back, set sail, and the next day he did not choose to make for the bays, and went to the south and took another which runs northwest and southeast and a quarter west and east.
In spite of his great wish to explore this interesting archipelago, he set sail, and from a distance perceived Ouahou Island, and the reef of Tahoora which he designated by the general appellation of Sandwich Archipelago.
Wallis was scarcely free of the strait, when he set sail westward in spite of dense fogs, and with high wind and such a heavy sea, that for weeks together there was not a dry corner in the ship.
On the 15th of September, the Swallow, partially refitted, set sail.
As the wind abated he set sail, and put in at some scattered islands, which had no water.
When Crassus arrived at Brundisium, though the sea was still rough owing to the wintry weather, he would not wait, but he set sail, and so lost many of his vessels.
As he was about to set sail to Brundisium, his friends thought that they ought to put the ashes of Cæpio in another vessel, but Cato, saying that he would rather part with his life than the ashes of his brother, set sail.
Yet we did not fail to set sail, in order to avoid the ice.
Thus we continued the entire day until the morning of the next day, when we set sail, now on this tack now on that, finding ourselves everywhere enclosed amid large floes of ice, as if in lakes on the mainland.
On the 8th of August [77] we were enabled by favorable weather to set sail.
We arrived the next day and found our vessels ready to set sail.
Freycinet was about to set sail again, when he learnt from an American captain that a merchant-vessel was lying off the island of Miow, having a large quantity of biscuit and rice on board, which there was no doubt might be purchased.
Two days later therefore the vessel set sail, and it took seven good days to get beyond the straits of Madura.
The Coquille set sail again on the 16th September, coasting along the north side of the islands lying between Een and Yang, and after a brief stay at Cayeli reached Amboyna, where the remarkably kind reception given by M.
We set sail with a fair wind, and soon got through the Persian gulph; and when got into the ocean, we steered our course for the Indies, and saw land the twentieth day.
I ordered fit apparel to be made for her; and, after having married her according to form, I took her on board, and we set sail.
We embarked on board a good ship, and, after recommending ourselves to God, set sail: We traded from island to island, and exchanged commodities with great profit.
Then out of five ships we took the Cordera, the Santa Clara and the San Juan, and we set sailon April the twenty-fourth.
After rest in milky water, we set sail to cross the width of the Whale, and found glass-green and shaken water, but never so piled and dangerous as at the Mouth of the Serpent.
After four days we set sail, but met again tempest and head winds, checking us so that for weeks we but crept and crawled over ocean.
The Cordera, the Santa Clara and the San Juan set sail out of the Harbor of Good Weather, in Santiago or Jamaica.
Early this morning came one and informed us that the ship had put out of harbor, whereupon my nephew and I set sail after!
Having taken in such refreshments as the island afforded, we set sail on a S.
It was a long, hard walk to the marble wharf where the ship lay on which Alyrus and his daughter were soon to set sail, as Lycias well knew.
She knew, only, that they were to set sail in a ship and leave this city where she had been so happy.
It was on this day that Alyrus, growing more confidential, told Lycias of the vessel lying in the River Tiber, ready to set sail as soon as he and Sahira went on board.
His son Telemachus, indignant at this, set sail in search of his father, whom he knew to be somewhere upon the seas.
He set sail, had a prosperous voyage, and arrived safely at Troy with his prize on the third day.
But the night before the fleet set sail a dreadful sacrilege took place.
Our ships having been repaired, we set sail on our return, taking a northeasterly course, and at the end of seven days fell in with some islands.
In command of these he set sail, in the year 1502, and after touching at Cumana, where he pillaged the Indians and took many prisoners, he proceeded to Coquibacoa.
Taking seven of the natives on board of his vessels, therefore, as guides, he set sail in quest of the cannibals.
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