The West and the SouthMacmillan and Company, 1886 |
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... HARBOUR ROUTINE . 4.30 A.M. Hands lash up and stow hammocks , Fall in ; scrub and wash decks . Duty boat away with stewards ashore to get provisions . Working subdivision of watch pump washing water ; royal yardmen clean lightning ...
... HARBOUR ROUTINE . 4.30 A.M. Hands lash up and stow hammocks , Fall in ; scrub and wash decks . Duty boat away with stewards ashore to get provisions . Working subdivision of watch pump washing water ; royal yardmen clean lightning ...
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... Harbour and got out the four - and - a - half ton forecastle gun and also the two sixty - four pounders from the captain's cabin . These weights were removed with the view of altering her trim and of possibly thus making her a better ...
... Harbour and got out the four - and - a - half ton forecastle gun and also the two sixty - four pounders from the captain's cabin . These weights were removed with the view of altering her trim and of possibly thus making her a better ...
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... Harbour . Passed , however , through quite a little fleet of our old friends the Brixham trawlers . Sept. 26th . - Passed the Lizard about 11 A.M. , a fine sunny morning ; what little wind there is comes from the west , and we are going ...
... Harbour . Passed , however , through quite a little fleet of our old friends the Brixham trawlers . Sept. 26th . - Passed the Lizard about 11 A.M. , a fine sunny morning ; what little wind there is comes from the west , and we are going ...
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... harbour of Port Mahon . The bay is three miles long ; its average width is only 400 yards , though in some places it is three times that distance across , and runs away into many coves and sheltered little nooks . We pass , on the left ...
... harbour of Port Mahon . The bay is three miles long ; its average width is only 400 yards , though in some places it is three times that distance across , and runs away into many coves and sheltered little nooks . We pass , on the left ...
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... harbour in the Mediterranean , within it a large fleet of line - of - battle ships can lie in seven fathoms of water safe from every wind that blows . This harbour was called " Portus Magonis , " either from some early Carthaginian ...
... harbour in the Mediterranean , within it a large fleet of line - of - battle ships can lie in seven fathoms of water safe from every wind that blows . This harbour was called " Portus Magonis , " either from some early Carthaginian ...
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Página 237 - This story shall the good man teach his son; And Crispin Crispian shall ne'er go by, From this day to the ending of the world, But we in it shall be remembered ; We few, we happy few, we band of brothers ; For he to-day that sheds his blood with me Shall be my brother...
Página 132 - The mountain wooded to the peak, the lawns And winding glades high up like ways to Heaven, The slender coco's drooping crown of plumes, The lightning flash of insect and of bird, The lustre of the long convolvuluses That coil'd around the stately stems, and ran Ev'n to the limit of the land, the glows And glories of the broad belt of the world, All these he saw ; but what he fain had seen...
Página 344 - Israel is slain upon thy high places : how are the mighty fallen ! Tell it not in Gath, publish it not in the streets of Askelon ; lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoice, lest the daughters of the uncircumcised triumph.
Página 109 - The spirits of your fathers Shall start from every wave ! — For the deck it was their field of fame, And Ocean was their grave...
Página 7 - Nobly, nobly Cape Saint Vincent to the North-West died away ; Sunset ran, one glorious blood-red, reeking into Cadiz Bay; Bluish 'mid the burning water, full in face Trafalgar lay ; In the dimmest North-East distance dawned Gibraltar grand and gray; " Here and here did England help me : how can I help England...
Página 258 - Thou knowest, Lord, the secrets of our hearts; shut not thy merciful ears to our prayer; but spare us, Lord most holy, O God most mighty, O holy and merciful Saviour, thou most worthy Judge eternal, suffer us not, at our last hour, for any pains of death, to fall from thee.
Página 651 - And so the Word had breath, and wrought With human hands the creed of creeds In loveliness of perfect deeds, More strong than all poetic thought; Which he may read that binds the sheaf, Or builds the house, or digs the grave, And those wild eyes that watch the wave In roarings round the coral reef.
Página 179 - Full fathom five thy father lies; Of his bones are coral made; Those are pearls that were his eyes: Nothing of him that doth fade, But doth suffer a sea-change Into something rich and strange. Sea-nymphs hourly ring his knell : Hark! now I hear them, — ding-dong, bell.
Página 551 - At 4 am the Flying Dutchman crossed our bows. A strange red light as of a phantom ship all aglow, in the midst of which light the masts, spars, and sails of a brig 200 yards distant stood out in strong relief as she came up on the port bow.
Página 169 - Be not afeard ; the isle is full of noises, Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.