In fact, there is a recent instance of man-eating in the Strait of Magellan which appears to be authentically reported.
The voyage from the Strait of Magellan to the place is not a comfortable one, and the captain is always glum and anxious.
Then every woman in the great empire, which stretched from the Isthmus of Panama to the Strait of Magellan, abandoned colors and put on a black manta, and it has since been worn as perpetual mourning for “the last of the Incas.
The glaciers of Switzerland and Norway are insignificant beside those which can be seen from ships passing the Strait of Magellan.
There is no more dangerous sailing in the world than off the west coast of Patagonia and around the Horn, and vessels bound southward from Valparaiso are very lucky if they enter the Strait of Magellan without catching a gale of wind.
The first white man that interviewed these people was Magellan, the great navigator who discovered the strait which bears his name, and who was the first to enter the Pacific Ocean.
Under the influence of these and the steam, the Pole Star rapidly threw the dark coast of Siberia over her stern and drove for the Strait of Bering and the American shore.
These had drifted with the current down through the Bering Strait and were destined to melt in the warm waters of the Japan Current.
The sun rimmed the world toward the true west, and through the opal haze, its glow brought out the details of the drifting ice which was being driven through Barrow Strait by the south wind.
Banks Straitthe passage was called, and it led from Beaufort Sea and the uncharted waters east of Keenan Land to Melville Sound and Barrow Strait.
The ship steadied, swung, then darted under the lee of a barren island; the strait with its score of sharp turnings lay ahead.
Coronation Gulf, where we are heading, leads to Victoria Strait and Lancaster Sound.
They tingled as he tracked the course of the ship from the mouth of the Mackenzie, and studied all that the chart had to tell him of the strait ahead.
We're heading for Barrow Straitand Lancaster Sound.
The harbour of Unalaska and the strait at Dutch Pass never freezes.
The Straitwas less than forty miles from headland to headland, and between the two capes lay the Diomede Islands.
Are you sorry I didn't try for Davis Straitand the North Atlantic?
The taper jib boom pointed down the narrow strait and sheered in time to meet the first rollers of the Gulf of Anadir.
By the accounts of this voyage which reached us, we found that the two ships Providence and Assistance were twenty days from their entrance into the strait to their finding themselves again in an open sea.
In this strait there are four small islands to the east, next that point of Trindada which he named Cabo de Boca, or Cape Mouth, because it was blunt; and the western cape upon the continent he called Cabo de Lapa.
There being nothing worthy of notice in the islands of Guanaia, he sailed thence to a point which he called Casinas, in order to find out the strait before mentioned.
Thousands perished; corpses thronged The great sea-highways: all the beaches were Too strait for them: the surf belched multitudes Forth on the land.
The city streets were all too straitfor them Marching: upsoared the dust from underfoot.
Yet in that sore strait they drew Peneleos from the shrieking tumult forth, And bare to the ships, though with swift feet themselves Were fleeing from ghastly death, from pitiless doom.
In the morning they took the lady into a fine and rich room, and gave her the finest pear she had ever seen, bidding her no to break it till she was in the greatest strait ever mortal could be in, and that wad get her out o't.
And what shall be said of the man who neglects his soul, and makes no effort to enter the strait gate?
Tell me, if you can, of any one who ever entered in at the strait gate without "striving.
I see few any where who "strive" to enter in at the strait gate.
Tell me, if you can, of any one who ever entered in at the strait gate, and was afterwards sorry.
It is the gate spoken of in the words of Christ,--"the strait gate.
Old or young, rich or poor, churchman or dissenter, I repeat my question, Have you entered in at the strait gate?
The last thing I have to say shall be a request to all who have really entered in at thestrait gate.
I long to see more zeal to commend the straitgate to all who are yet outside, and more desire to persuade them to enter in and be saved.
Strait as this gate is, it is the only one by which men can get to heaven.
I want them to testify to all around them that the strait gate is the way to happiness, and to persuade them to enter in by it.
Strait as this gate is, it is a gate ever ready to open.
The strait gate shall at last be barred and bolted.
He that endeavours to show his neighbour the strait gate is doing a work which God approves.
This gate is called the strait gate, and it is not called so without cause.
The angels will make this entrance strait; yea, too strait for the unjustified and unsanctified to enter in thither.
Eph 5:3-6) The gate will be too strait for such as these to enter in thereat.
Strive to enter in at the strait gate' (Luke 13:23).
Dost thou think that the way that thou art in will lead thee to the strait gate, sinner?
But these have not the straitgate in their eye, nor yet in themselves have they love to their poor and perishing souls; wherefore this exhortation nippeth such, by predicting of their damnation.
As it is called a gate, so it is called a strait gate--"Strive to enter in at the strait gate.
On thisstrait is located Punta Arenas, which is the southernmost town in the world.
It was the famous Magellan who discovered the water passage above Cape Horn and it is called the Strait of Magellan.
Thereat on the fourth pier we came, we turn'd, And on our left descended to the depth, A narrowstrait and perforated close.
But if one is sea-fearing instead of sea-faring, he may go comfortably from Naples by train, via Reggio and the Strait of Messina, only two miles across by ferry.
An enterprising smuggler at Bradore, just inside the Strait of Belle Isle, paved his oaken stairs with silver dollars to keep the wood from wearing out; and he could well afford to do so.
In yon strait path a thousand May well be stopp'd by three: Now who will stand on either hand, And keep the bridge with me?
The Greek ships were all drawn up on the farther side of Euboea to prevent the Persian vessels from getting into the strait and landing men beyond the pass, and a division of the army was sent off to guard the Hot Gates.
The winners in these contests were given beautiful prizes, which were much coveted.
Now, the Spartans were a proud people, and did not like to ask aid of any one; but they made up their minds to obey this command, and so sent a messenger to Athens to ask for a good leader.
When Charilaus, the infant king, had grown up, Lycurgus prepared to go away.
This city still stands, as you will see by looking at your maps; and near it is the strait of the same name, which separates Sicily from Italy.
The port of Santo Toribio of Torres is the China Strait of Moresby.
For Torres, on his voyage from Espiritu Santo to Ternate, was the discoverer of the strait which bears his name.
One of them is Lorenzo Ferrer Maldonado, a cosmographer and writer who is best known for his account of the imaginary Strait of Anian, published in 1588.
He was a cartographer, and, in studying existing maps, he saw a great Southern continent extending across the ocean, from the Strait of Magellan to New Guinea.
They went to Manilla, which was 15 leagues distant, by a certain strait in the island, to report our approach.
The letter of Torres was first printed in Burney's Voyages, from a copy obtained and translated by Dalrymple, who suggested the name of Torres Strait for the principal discovery of that navigator.
Traversing the strait which bears Magellan's name, they came to disturb the seas which for many previous years had been secure and peaceful.
Truro, Nova Scotia, to Port Mulgrave, where he passed over the Strait of Canso to Cape Breton.
At that point the strait is only a dozen miles wide, and there, if anywhere, they could cross it.
Early on the second morning they passed Flower Cove, and from this point White headed directly across the Strait of Belle Isle, which, here, is but a dozen miles in width.
The growth of timber of all sorts in the neighbourhood of the harbours in the De-fuca Strait adds much to their value as a naval and commercial station.
To keep the strait open, and (3) To take Constantinople.
On the 7th of January, between 9 and 10 o'clock in the evening, we sneaked through the Strait of Perim.
This last, though less numerous than its congener, seems to range over the whole of the continent, breeding in the extreme north, while it has been obtained also in the Strait of Magellan and the Falkland Islands.
Tho' strenuously with breath divine inspired, To thy strait law is due thy deathless line.
When thus his strait walls with ills were vexed, Theseus with free will preferred to yield up his body for adored Athens rather than such Cecropian corpses be carried to Crete unobsequied.
Convene the senate; let themstrait propose A ransom, or exchange for Regulus, To Africa's ambassador.
Thy duty to thy father in a way More grateful to him: I must strait embark.
He reached the Strait of Mackinaw in December, and there Pere Marquette joined him.
De Nadaillac judges it probable that the ocean was thus crossed not at Behring Strait alone, but along a belt of equatorial islands as well.
