The straits should be entered by Samar and Masbate.
Philippines, and enter the archipelago by the Straits of San Bernardino.
The tree yielding it, called by the Bisayans nato, abounds in this province, and in Guimaras, and if it prove to be the real Isonandra gutta of the Straits and Borneo, should hereafter become of considerable importance.
In ourStraits Archipelago they have superseded the Klings in all the most beneficial fields of labour, as the Klings had previously superseded the less industrious Malays.
Across the straits from Benicia shows the summit of Mount Diablo, 3,849 feet, meridian base for this region.
I have begun writing this to-day because there seems some chance of posting it on Saturday or Sunday, when Sir Leonard and Lady Tilley and two sons are to be landed at New Brunswick as we pass down the Straits of Belle Isle, I think.
After dinner we were all on deck again and watched for the lights on the coast of Labrador, which mark the entrance into the Straits of Belle Isle, and at last a twinkle caught my eye and we all greeted it with joy!
Provocations which have come from the other side of the Straits increase their distrust; these picture to them the abode of the Roman army in Franche-Comte as a threat against the independence of the whole of Gaul.
He therefore resolved, instead of running through the Straits of Macassar, to continue eastward across the sea of Celebes and ultimately rounding the Moluccas, to sail down the coast of New Guinea.
In rather over three months we entered the Straits of Sunda, when, as we were approaching shores the inhabitants of which were addicted to piracy, we got up our guns from the hold and mounted them, and overhauled our firearms.
After discharging the cargo we had brought from England for this place, we again sailed, steering through the straits of Singapore for the eastward.
It must skirt Denmark and pass into the North Sea, then go through the Straits of Dover, down the coast of France, across the Bay of Biscay, and down the coast of Portugal until the Straits of Gibraltar are reached.
He added that if he had not revealed his intention before, this was not from pride, but because it seemed to him that in the straits in which the city now was, action was more necessary than speech.
If he had been left to himself in his straits he would have gone on his high errand clad as he was; but before he was to go his friends had done the best they could for him.
Clinton, to whom Burgoyne in his straitswas looking for relief.
They hold possession of the country on both sides of Johnstone Straitsuntil met 20 or 30 miles south of Fort Rupert by the Nimpkish and Mamalilacullas.
Their country stretches along the whole southern shore of the Straitsto between Port Discovery and Port Townsend.
The practice prevails, generally, from the mouth of the Columbia to the Dalles, about one hundred and eighty miles, and from the Straits of Fuca on the north, to Coos Bay.
Classets 'reside on the south side of the Straits of Fuca.
Northward of the Straits it diminishes gradually to a mere slight compression, finally confined to women, and abandoned entirely north of Milbank Sound.
In 1790, Salvador Fidalgo was sent by the Mexican government to Nootka; and Monaldo explored the Straits of Juan de Fuca.
All the natives inhabiting the southern shore of the Straits (of Fuca), and the deeply indented territory as far as and including the tide-waters of the Columbia, may be comprehended under the general term of Chinooks.
Southern shore of the Straits of Fuca east of the Classets.
Takalli, and thence extend south along Fraser's River towards the Straits of Fuca.
Although children and old people are as a rule kindly cared for, yet so great the straits to which the tribes are reduced by circumstances, that both are sometimes abandoned if not put to death.
The reverence of hunters for the bear whom they regularly kill and eat may thus be traced all along the northern region of the Old World, from Behring's Straits to Lappland.
Journal of theStraits Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, No.
Perham, "Sea Dyak Religion," Journal of the Straits Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, No.
Never was stately swan sailing at the head of a brood of fair young cygnets more competent to leadership than she to marshal her troop of bright, handsome daughters through the straits of girlhood to the high places of matrimony.
I can see a great deal of suffering in that family from poor Pat's weakness and wickedness, but I also see most noble virtues growing up, even in these children, from the straits to which they are put.
There was no telling to what straits I might be reduced; but, as long as I had a dollar in my pocket, I was determined to avoid highway robbery.
The remaining six months she necessarily spends in the Straits of Carquinas, near Benicia, in order to get rid of the barnacles that accumulate on her bottom during the term of her sedentary career below.
For over a thousand miles, a series of internal waters behind large islands, with bays, straits and archipelagoes, lead northward from the Gulf of Georgia to Alaska, making one of the most admirable scenic routes in America.
Through this deep, contracted canyon the river winds, at times confined into such narrow crooked straits that the water rushes in swiftly-moving massive billows like the Niagara rapids.
Obviously, he had to make the Straits of Dover impregnable; so the northern part of the line got the lion's share of troops.
From the entrance of the Dardanelles to Gallipoli the straits are very narrow, not more than a quarter of a mile in some places.
It was the North Star," she continued, "that beat through the straits of Gibraltar against the current when none of the others could.
We steam up the straits to our anchorage in about three-fourths of an hour.
Frontispiece Pigafetta’s Chart of theStraits of Magellan 86 Pigafetta’s Charts of the Unfortunate Isles and the Ladrones 92 Pigafetta’s Chart of the islands of Samar, etc.
Many myths sprung up about him, such that he had visited America before Columbus and the straits of Magellan before Magalhães, the latter of whom he may have known at Lisbon.
There are Lord knows how many of them, but the beauty of the little straits and creeks which divide them no man can describe who has not seen them.
She lay to under the land still, and with only a few hands on deck, while the Agra edged away from her and entered the straits between Long Island and Point Leat, leaving the schooner about two miles and a half distant to the N.
Footnote 116: The Dutch East-India Company claimed the absolute sovereignty of the Straits of Sunda, as possessing the kingdom of Bantam, on the shore of Java, and having conquered the land of Lampon and other provinces on the opposite side.
This residence, it was expected, would allow opportunity for examining the straits in this part, besides occupying the astronomer and botanist, and the useful pursuits of hunting and fowling.
Contrary winds and stormy weather opposed the entrance into the straits for several days, and after having entered, obliged him to lie-to between the shores of Terra del Fuego and the continent.
The ocean having forced this passage, it ran at first through the straits with much greater rapidity than at present, and overflowed the continent that joined Europe to Africa.
So likewise Mount Atlas traverses the whole continent of Africa, from west to east, from the kingdom of Fez to the Straits of the Red Sea; and the mountains of the Moon have the same direction.
We have likewise observed that the strata are the same on both sides the straits of the sea.
If there are less on the North coasts of Lapland, than on those of Siberia, and the Straits of Waigat, it is because all the rivers of Lapland fall into the Gulph of Bothnia, and none go into the northern sea.
The gulphs bordering on the coasts are much less deep, and the straits are generally the most shallow.
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