The fact became apparent--the reader will probably have discovered it some time since--that we had been wooding all night at the same woodyard!
A vast deal of wooding still remains; it is clear that these forests were the largest and most convenient to supply Athens with firewood or charcoal.
The great Surf that always will be upon the Shore when the wind blows hard from the Southward makes Wooding and Watering tedious, notwithstanding there are great plenty of both close to high water Mark.
From this day till Monday 14th we were employ'd wooding and watering, being frequently interrupted by heavy rains.
The ship then anchored in the convenient harbour of Resolution Bay in the island of Tanna, and remained a fortnight, wooding and watering.
Corner, who commanded the watering and wooding parties on shore, received a blow on the head and was robbed of a curiosity he had bought and held in his hand, and with which the thief was making off.
Corner drew the wooding and watering parties towards the boats and then began to load them with the wood that was cut.
Kempe would take care of the ship, and forward her refitting, besides wooding and watering.
All hands were busy wooding and watering, preparatory to returning to Monte Video.
They had generally shown themselves disposed to be mischievous, and I determined upon preventing their encamping near us; for their presence would greatly impede our watering and wooding parties, by distracting the attention of the people.
No place {376} could be more convenient than this for such purposes as wooding and watering; and we took advantage of it to the utmost by filling the ship's hold.
The first tolerable day in this place was employed by the officers in taking bearings and soundings in the bay; and by the ship's company in wooding and watering.
The Russian Government has, however, attempted the wooding of the steppes, and there are thriving plantations in the neighborhood of Odessa, where the soil is of a particularly loose and sandy character.
We lay here five days, which time was employed in wooding and watering (which is easily got), and over-hauling the rigging.
The northern cove is the most commodious for wooding and watering.
The lanterns on shore began to move boatward as the last of the wooding was finished and the fuel boxes again were full.
Besides the necessary work of wooding and watering, we struck the main-top-mast to fix new trestle-trees and back-stays.
On the 15th, having finished wooding and watering, a few hands only were on shore making brooms, the rest being employed on board setting up the rigging, and putting the ship in a condition for sea.
One mile west from Tomlinson's the widow Woodingkept a tavern as early as 1842, and for some time thereafter.
Chapter VII Wooding Up As second clerk, I was early taught to hold my own with the pirates who conducted the woodyards scattered along the river, from which the greater part of the fuel used on old-time river boats was purchased.
It was after dinner when they were smoking their cigars in the gloom as the Zaire was steaming across its way to the shore where a wooding offered an excuse for a night's stay, and Bones gave voice to his thoughts.
Wooding and watering came next--a different affair to our casual exercises in those directions before.
Next day the starboard watch went on liberty, while we who had received our share were told off to spend the day wooding and watering.
Altogether, I was glad that the wooding had not fallen to my share.
Our visit being principally for wooding and watering, both of which it was necessary for us to do ourselves, Captain Count showed his usual promptitude in commencing at once.
Briefly, I proposed a sort of picnic at a beautiful spot discovered during our wooding expedition.
The next wooding station was Domira Bay, and on the 17th we arrived at Kota-Kota, which used to be the headquarters of the Arab slave traffic across the lake, and the starting-point of the Arab raids towards Mweru.
When we first arrived at St Catharines, we were employed in refreshing our sick on shore, in wooding and watering the squadron, in cleaning our ships, and in examining and securing our masts and rigging, as formerly mentioned.
Although, at first view, the country and inhabitants might dissuade us from venturing freely among them, I had formerly read such accounts of these people, that I was under no apprehension of being molested in wooding and watering.
Perhaps the most interesting event of the voyage was "wooding up.
There were camp-fires at the wooding stations, the flames of which painted the foliage extraordinary colors and spangled it with sparks.
We were never weary of "wooding up," and were always wondering where these gentle savages lived and how they escaped with their lives from the thousand and one pests that haunted the forest and lay in wait for them.
On clearing the wood, four or five Indians were seen on a hill, half a mile to the left, and some of the wooding party advancing towards them.
The natives came early to the tents, and behaved themselves tranquilly until noon; when one of those who had been most kindly treated, ran off with a wooding axe, and from the thickness of the forest, eluded the pursuit made after him.
He took little notice of them until, finding they saw him and landed not far off, he thought it prudent to retreat with his servant to the wooding party.
We went on shore in the evening, to see how the people who were employed in wooding and watering went on, and were informed that an axe had been stolen.
This place is very convenient both for wooding and watering, and in the river there is an immense quantity of oysters and other shell-fish: I have for this reason given it the name of Oyster River.
The bay affords a convenient place for wooding and watering; the latter may be had during the early months of the dry season (as late as August) from a drain at the base of the Pipe Clay Cliffs at the north end of the bay.
The next day was employed in wooding and watering, in which the natives, particularly our friend Jack, assisted.
Wood for fuel is plentiful, and grows close to the beach, and may be embarked with facility; the best place is at the north end of the sandy beach, since the boat can be brought nearer to the shore to protect the wooding party.
Their hostile conduct caused much trouble whilst getting wood and water, so much so, that King determined to finish wooding on Sims Island to the northward.
A species of hatchet used in wooding a ship, similar to that used by hedgers.
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