This volume continues the history of the academy ship and her crew of boys, with their trips into the interior as well as voyages along the coast of Ireland and Scotland.
In his 'Voyages and Travels', Kerr writes as follows.
Happily both voyages were as peaceful and pleasant as the last had been tempestuous, and nothing happened to darken a single hour of that happy time.
This same current in the northern part of the Gulf Stream opposed the passage of ships from northern Europe to the westward, and to this day affects the speed with which their voyages are made.
The migrations of people, even down to the time of the voyages which discovered America, have in large measure been controlled by the run of the ocean streams.
This region of the "doldrums" or frequent calms is one of much trouble to sailing ships on their voyages from one hemisphere to another.
And when they haue discharged their goods, they sel the rafts for fire, and let the wind out of their goats skins, and cary them home againe vpon their asses by land, to make other voyages downe the riuer.
The voyages into many of these Ilands belong vnto the captaine of Malacca: so that none may goe thither without his licence: which yeeld him great summes of money euery yeere.
In which meane time I made twovoyages more vnto Babylon, and returned by the way aforesayd, ouer the deserts of Arabia.
The merchants that aduentured in these voyages being in number sixeteene or seuenteene (notwithstanding the foure shippes gone from Iaua to the Moluccas, as it is before mentioned) haue sent this last spring 1599.
The British, presuming on the voyages of Captain Cook, took possession of Nootka; the Spanish Viceroy of Mexico sent a force to fetch the English away, and placed them in the fortress of Acapulco.
At this time took place one of those liberations of slaves in voyages between our own ports, of which there had already been four instances; but no one under circumstances of such crime and outrage.
All these were coastingvoyages between one port of the United States and another, and involved practical questions of great interest to all the slave States.
An excellent translation of Correa's account of The Three Voyages of Vasco da Gama, by Lord Stanley of Alderley, was published by the Hakluyt Society in 1869.
It was first published, together with other documents dealing with early voyages to the New World and to India, by Dr.
For an interesting estimate of the character of the great navigator, see Lord Stanley of Alderley's The Three Voyages of Vasco da Gama (Hakluyt Society), 1869.
The portrait in the possession of the Conde de Lavradio, which was published in Lord Stanley of Alderley's The Three Voyages of Vasco da Gama, is a copy of the above.
Since the days when Blanchard accomplished the first trip across the British Channel, and the fearless de Rozier sought to imitate him, a number of aeronauts had made interesting voyages between France and England.
It was only a few years later that Charles Green, the most famous of all the early English aeronauts, began his voyages in the Great Nassau, the balloon whose name is even to-day a tradition.
It was only about ten years after the pioneer voyages of de Rozier that the balloon was actually used on the battlefield, for in 1794 the French employed it against the Austrians at Mayence and at Charleroi.
He accomplished successfully one of the most difficult voyages on record, in an ocean area notoriously stormy and treacherous.
During the next century the risks of insurance for the usual voyages between London and European ports were carefully considered, and customary rates became established.
There is a familiar story of an English bird which built its nest in an unused block in the rigging of a ship, and made one or two short voyages with the vessel while hatching its eggs.
Quadrupeds, both domestic and wild, bear the privations and discomforts of longvoyages better than would be supposed.
Others have arrived safely, as fromvoyages over wide, century-stretching seas.
Much concerning Gray's voyages can be found in the accounts of contemporary navigators like Meares and Vancouver; but the essential facts of the voyages are obtainable from the records of Gray's log-book, and of diaries kept by his officers.
This was to be the object of Vancouver's life, and he carried it out with a thoroughness that left nothing for subsequent explorers to do; but he died before the record of his voyages had been given to the world.
Cook had said there were no Straits of Fuca, of which the old Greek pilot in the service of New Spain had told legends of fictitious voyages two centuries before; yet Barclay, an East India English trader, had been up those very straits.
It is true, too, that the Netherlanders claimed to have led the way to the great voyagesof Columbus by their discovery of the Azores.
Contemporaneously with these voyages towards the North Pole, the enlightened magistrates of the Netherland municipalities, aided by eminent private citizens, fitted out expeditions in the opposite direction.
All the Indians of these towns are traders, and their chief source of wealth is in the voyages to Cavite.
But as the voyages are long, namely, three months to go and three to return, we thought that you would grieve over their absence.
On account of this difference in temperatures, very many of the crew fall sick, die, and endure very great hardship, since the voyages are necessarily long; hence we can say that they make the voyage twice over.
For further illustrations of this, see Labat, Voyages en Espagne, Paris, 1730, vol.
His voyages up to this time had carried him far over the earth, and his experiences would overlap the experiences of an ordinary man a score of times and more.
After reading such a narrative, we seem to lose our wonder at the voyages of vessels like the Half Moon, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria.
Cook's great series of voyages, beginning in 1776 and lasting several years, and extending through all parts of the Pacific, were designed primarily as voyages of discovery.
An unmerited importance has perhaps been given to the inquiry whether Mr Melville's voyages were made on quarterdeck or on forecastle, and are genuine adventures or mere Robinsonades.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "voyages" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
