Christmas Day coming, the pirates landed on a small island to celebrate this festival in a thorough manner, carousing and drinking as long as the liquor lasted, when they sailed away to seek more.
Rackam was now in a very awkward position, being unable to get past the Spaniard, and all he could do was to hide behind a small island.
He was hanged in chains at Nix's Mate, a small island in Boston Harbour, and thus was brought to a close a brief though brilliant piratical career of just one month.
A small island, on which we landed to cook breakfast, was named after the late Daniel Moore, Esq.
At the extremity of Simpson island there is a broad channel, which pours its waters into the one in which we were, at a place where the stream is contracted by a small island, and a strong rapid is the consequence of this junction.
In front of Pheia is a small island and a harbour; thence to Olympia by sea, which is the shortest way, is 120 stadia.
Then follows a small island, Myonnesus; next Antron; which was subject to Protesilaus.
This night was passed on a small island at the west point of Snowy Sound.
We set out early with the boats, but the weather was too bad to do much; however, something was done, and at dusk we went ashore on a small island in the Sound.
The three met together in a small island[357] in the middle of a river and sat together for three days.
A small island in the Saronic Gulf off the coast of Argolis and opposite Troezen, where was a celebrated temple of Poseidon which was regarded as an inviolable asylum.
They met in a small island of the Rhenus, or Lavinius, as the name is in Appian (Civil Wars, iv.
About the centre is prettily formed, although dirty, a sheet of water, with a fanciful boat, for passing to and from a small island in the centre.
A large rock called the Stromberg, is very picturesque, with the castellated ruins at the top, and several other rocks of smaller dimensions in its vicinity, nearly opposite to which the Rhine surrounds a small island.
Here Franklin laid the Erebus and Terror up for the winter, having found fairly sheltered anchorage at a small island.
Again the war-drum is heard, just as the flotilla is passing a small island.
At this juncture many canoes full of natives were observed at the opposite side of the river, so Stanley and Tippu Tib and some other Arabs entered the boat and rowed up to a small island in mid-stream.
Accordingly in the morning early I stood in with the north-west point of Ceram; leaving a small island, called Bonao, to the west.
About three leagues and a half from the bottom of the bay on this side there is a small island about a musket-shot from the shore; and a reef of rocks that runs from it to the eastward about a mile.
We could not stem the tide till about 3 o'clock in the afternoon; when, the tide running with us, we soon got abreast of the bay, and then saw a small island to the eastward of us.
The Christians went to live in a small island in the river Volga.
The city is built on a small island, very near the coast.
Saw the island of Guilpat, and the next morning anchored off the north-east side of it, in a channel between Guilpat and a small island.
At night we landed on a small island, and we cooked our prize for our supper.
I accompanied the master to a small island, to make observations.
On Sunday, the 22d, we anchored off a small island near to the isle of Billaton.
In about a fortnight afterwards, the Corregidor, a small island at the mouth of Manilla Bay, hove in sight.
Footnote 2: Monhegan, a small island on the coast of Maine, off Pemaquid Point.
Footnote 3: Mona is a small island lying in the passage between Santo Domingo and Puerto Rico.
Footnote 53: A small island of the Bahamas, which forms the north side of the harbor of New Providence or Nassau.
Footnote 5: Now commonly called Vieques, a small island lying a few miles east of Puerto Rico, and also now belonging to the United States.
A little way from the entrance of the bay is a small island, on which there is always a guard composed of a serjeant and a small number of men.
Nicolo set sail to give them battle, but was himself obliged to fly before their fleet, much more numerous than his own, and to take refuge on a small island on the coast of Iceland.
Frobisher afterwards went ninety miles further on in the same strait, as far as a small island, which received the name of Smith's Island.
It was during this latter part of his voyage that Nova discovered the small island of Saint Helena in the midst of the Atlantic.
It was afterwards proved to be only a small island.
The land was only a small island, Jeannette Island, but its discovery caused great rejoicing among the party, who had looked at nothing but ice and sky during fourteen months.
Preparations for the winter were made without delay: a storehouse was formed on a small island in the harbour; an observatory was built on another island; and a deck-house was made to protect the Advance.
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