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... Rosita on the East Indiaman, the Prince George. The ship was one of the largest of the company’s vessels, well armed and amongst the first all iron ... ... was out of his time. Instead of meeting him on the deck of a nineteenth century British merchant vessel, I could imagine him standing at the prow of... ...their pernicious trade and no doubt the Arab captains thought our merchant ship was a Royal Navy vessel.’ A more felicitous event was the birth of ... ...ry of the Portuguese Princess, Catherine of Braganza, on her marriage to Charles II. From a small fishing village and a chequered history as a base ... ...stified to the commercial success of the Company’s Nabobs. Helen leaned on the ship’s rail as the vessel docked and she saw another world - India. P... ...ver Ganges by wooden, gaily-painted barges towed by a steamboat. The journey was slow because the vessels were being dragged upstream against the na... ...ign land. The proprietors, Misses Minto, had come out to India looking for husbands - two of the ‘Fishing Fleet’ as these hopeful ladies were unchar... ... the fort to see Agnes and her little goddaughter, baby Helen Brown, and, occasionally, rides and fishing trips with John MacGregor. She always felt... ...ished gold, a kingfisher perched on a water lily nearby, looking for his fishy breakfast, little fishing boats in the distance casting their nets, e...
...first voyage 59-66 CHAPTER IV. Early Navigators and Examples of their monster Vessel. -- A view from the plateau of the nineteenth century -- Passage... ...of the Atlantic before the time of Columbus -- Noah's Ark compared with modern vessels -- Egypt a country of marvels -- A great naval battle 1250 B.C.... ...t Carthage -- An ancient ship that exceeded in size and splendor of any modern vessel 67-69 CHAPTER V. Superstitions which long disputed the progress ... ...he royal preserves and magnificent gardens -- The man-eaters of Fugiu -- Great vessels in the India trade -- How they were built and propelled -- The ... ...o preserve the health of the men -- Unpleasant familiarities of the natives -- Fishing in cold weather -- A Chuckchie potentate -- Sending letters hom... ... the natives............................................ 352 Terre Del Fuegans fishing............................................... 354 Loss of the ... ...surprised by Spaniards........................................ 382 Patagonians fishing..................................................... 384 Captur... ...Restoration................................................ 453 New Zealanders fishing.................................................. 456 Cook's vi... ...e who dwelt chiefly in caves among the hills of the sea coast and subsisted by fishing; whatever attempts they made at erecting habitations were confi...
...nd boundaries: 5,070 km total Coastline: 1,600 km Maritime claims: Exclusive fishing zone: 200 nm Territorial sea: 20 nm Climate: semiarid in south an... ...her local foodstuffs; disrup- tions caused by civil war require food imports Fishing: catch 112,000 metric tons (1982) Major industries: mining (oil, ... ... claims: Continental shelf: 200 meters or to depth of exploitation Exclusive fishing zone: 200 nm Territorial sea: 3 nm Climate: tropical; moderated b... ...ture: pigeon peas, corn, sweet potatoes, sheep, goats, pigs, cattle, poultry Fishing: inshore and reef fishing Major industries: tourism, lobster expo... ...: inshore and reef fishing Major industries: tourism, lobster exports, salt, fishing Electric power: 3,000 kW capacity; 9 million kWh produced, 1,320 ... ...ed earth Inland waterways: 12,800 km; 3,200 km navigable by large commercial vessels Pipelines: crude, 1,117 km; natural gas, 330km Ports: 4 major, 6 ... ... smaller canals in the Delta); Suez Canal, 162 km long, used by ocean- going vessels drawing up to 16.1 meters of water Freight carried: Suez Canal 25... ...and unimproved earth Inland waterways: 460 km, navigable by small oceangoing vessels and river and coastal steamers; 3,300 km possibly naviga- ble by ... ...ds and machine shops provide maintenance and repair services to 3,500- 4,000 vessels that call at Gibraltar each year; UK military establishments and ...
...as not made to believe that she was mentally deficient, that she was a mad vessel floundering in the city’s waves, or a tiny and blighted part in the... ...hey would soon be told to disperse the way she was already dispersed, her vessel foundering somewhere in these depths far away from sheltered shores,... ...er eyes fully. A police officer was to her left. A man near some type of fishing craft was to her right. And a water-monitor half the size of a fu... ...nd a jean jacket. The latter had moved closer to her, away from his small fishing boat which was tied to one of the trees that was partially submerg... ...one content of a fetid container spilling into another -- nay, foundering vessels of the night, of the void, seeking to be demolished into each othe... ...vaganza for the poor of the South of the city. Here countless men were fishing or over-fishing on the embankments. And looking out from the windo...
...e it selfe without alteration or corruption, according to the fault of the vessell that contained it. Some man hath a cleare sight, that is not right... ...ll another thing. In every street of Rome were placed tubs and such other vessels, for passengers to make water in. http://www.uoregon.edu/%7Erbear... ...her traine but one officer of the commonwelth, who carried his gowne and a vessell to do sacrifice in, and for the most part carried his male himself... ... But that the minde was forst to serve complaint He knew, that fault the vessell did empart, That all was marr'd within by vessels taint, Whatever... ...at and extreme cold doe both boile and rost. Aristotle saith, That leaden vessels doe as well melt and consume away by an excessive cold and rigor of... ...if fishers doe not very honestly leave behind them an even share of their fishings for the woolves that range about those coasts, they presently run... ...oasts, they presently run and teare their nets. And as we have a kinde of fishing rather managed by sleight than strength, As that of hooke and line... ... limbs of those that touch it, but also theirs that with any long pole or fishing line touch any part thereof, shee doth transmit and convey a kinde... ...erate proportion of their favour, and to glide in troubled waters without fishing in them. Th' other manner of offering ones uttermost endevours to ...
...gently, but deftly, held a birch branch that long ago had been fashioned into a fishing pole. He had been sitting for most of the day on a flat boul... ...g that he would send for him when he got settled. Aaron conned his way aboard a fishing trawler headed for The Soul Bearer Trieste by telling the ... ...stant. But Aaron had other plans. After a long and tedious voyage, the Italian vessel docked in New York's merchant shipyard. Sailing into New York... ...lives on the line many times by putting our small boats in the way of fifty-ton fishing trawlers in order to save whales and dolphins. I'm sure we c... ... with family and friends and barbecues in the back yard. But, more importantly, fishing trips and golf with influential constit uents. For otI:ers,... ...group of military scientists suggested it could be stored safely in containment vessels, under military guard, and the vessels could be changed peri... ...tage, and the bunch of you are looking for a job." "Well, I always wanted to go fishing and playa little golf," Orinthall said sarcastically. The ...
...of merchandise and business people; cost near the border —costs associated with vessel transits and freight transfers at international shipping an... ...r departure from the port of exit. For importing goods, procedures range from the vessel‘s arrival at the port of entry to the cargo‘s delivery at t... ... and business people. B. Costs near the border: These costs are associated with vessel transits and freight transfers at the international shippin... ...rs, their forgone benefits would include depreciating quality of agricultural and fishing merchandises, loss of interest incomes from trading revenu...
... it is served to another. 139 Anyone can use his hand to take food from the vessel and eat it. Anyone can go to the temple to touch the statue of ... ...hould dress themselves only in the clothes worn by the corpses, eat in broken vessels, should not use any form of metal vessels, should wear jewels ... ...ld not be given anything directly. The remaining food must be put in a broken vessel. They should not come into the village in the nights. Even if t... ...l labourers (72%), industrial labourers (17.3%), plantation labour (6.1%) and fishing labour (92.5%). 9. Child labour: Child labour exists in 58.75... ... of the dead. They could not own any property and they had to only use broken vessels. That is why, as a part of his struggle against Brahmin suprem...
...ked into its instinctive cells. Into its body muscles, its organs, its blood vessels, its bones, its heart, its lungs, its genitals, its nerves, it... ...vessels, its bones, its heart, its lungs, its genitals, its nerves, its blood vessels… as pain. As raw unidentifiable, unprocessable pain that is ... ...ght conditions finally paid off. There is no reason stop using a spear, or a fishing line to invent a weir, or a net in order to catch hundreds of f... ...ever happen again. Just like it will never again take 6 months for a sailing vessel to cross the Atlantic. The dropping of the atomic bomb was th... ...tation and discipline that was supposedly necessary for any large ocean-going vessel in those days to function properly. For hundreds of years: Brit... ... Nobody told ME that most of the fish in the oceans are gone. I mean: if the fishing industry knew this: they’d tell us: wouldn’t they? Oh. The s... ...es. But they did not stop cutting down whole forests. Nor did they stop the fishing fleets from over fishing. They did not stop pumping oil or dr... ...ill stop eating meat. The same applies to fish. If you bring a consumer to a fishing trawler and make them see how these butchers kill fish, and ho... ...he poorest slums and neighborhoods of the Roman Empire… mostly in other poor, fishing communities. Because fishing was one of the few ways people c...
... right to amend it and to interpret it to future generations. The Constitution is a vessel, each generation fills it as it sees fit. It is up to us ... ...– information can come in various physical forms and poured into different kinds of vessels and carriers. It can be continuous or segmented, cyclica... ...of a lattice of preconceived, born, categorical knowledge about the universe – the vessels into which we pour our experience and which mould it. ... ... of a lattice of preconceived, born categorical knowledge about the universe – the vessels into which we pour our experience and which mould it. Ot... ...m, of ethnic lore, and of celebrity worship. It seems that Romanticism has changed vessels but not its cargo. We are afraid to face the fact that ... ...ere the term originated, says the Britannica, "taboos could include prohibitions on fishing or picking fruit at certain seasons; food taboos that re...
... about our fleet, how he would have the ships repaired and converted into fishing boats for the use of the community...never mentioning that our fle... ...s would appear again and again. There, on the hill, gazing seaward, where fishing smacks moved, I rubbed the horny bark, envying the tree’s longevit... ... birthdays. P For several days, Kleis and I have sailed, our boat a good fishing boat, cap- tained by a young man named Phaon. It was our first exc... ...get away from everything and everyone, myself as well. I went to a nearby fishing village. Necessity can be ingenious. The fishermen have managed to... ...amp but it didn’t work. He got very thin, weak; he coughed. I did all the fishing for us. I provided but I didn’t do a very good job... I miss him..... ...ssion. Five ships have been captured at sea and the slaves on board those vessels have been returned to Liberia. Now, an American ship, the Erie, o...
...t is God providing for the HIV orphans? Will God provide storms to sink the fishing vessels that are denuding our seas of fish? Or has God made us ... ... providing for the HIV orphans? Will God provide storms to sink the fishing vessels that are denuding our seas of fish? Or has God made us in His i...
..., but quickly adapted to his first summer when Jake bought him a canoe and fishing boat. He was soon skimming up and down the bay with new friends. Wh... ... their first full year in the house, Jake saw Julian down at the dock. His fishing boat was pulled up on shore and Julian had the cowling off and was ... ... Maybe I’ve said it CHAPTER 13 80 SUSAN BRACKEN all – emptied my literary vessel, unburdened myself totally. Lord knows, nobody could be more content...
... "Call upon the Lights. Center it on Lei-kung. Do you accept him as the vessel of your destiny?" "YES!" "DO YOU?" "YES!" The entire palace ... ... only I could have come to her clean! The herons paused often from their fishing to share a choice morsel, to intertwine their necks, as if to poli...
...be worthy of the blessing of devotion. For God pours out his blessing into vessels he finds empty. It is when a man renounces all that is base, scorns ... ..., (2) they cultivated only a portion of it, using the rest for hunting and fishing, and (3) they moved seasonally to differ- ent parts of their lands ...
...orldly version of Huckleberry Finn. Looking down at the waters and the small fishing crafts that were tied to a few docks at a distance, he thought ab... ...of competing for more and more or the greasy food they clog into their blood vessels or from fright at possibly being blown away when some stressed ou... ... in a heavenly abyss greater than having the license to do some Italian stud fishing in the pool of her hotel. She loathed how the chemicals of this i... ...he tossing of this world. Chapter 43 The catalysts of a migraine being blood vessels that constrict blood flow as they dilate externally, and the head...
...lavery then went on to state that any slave who takes refuge on board any vessel of a nation that signed the Convention would be immediately free. T... ...ertainment. It is against animal research, animals for work, fur farming, fishing, killing animals that are pests like wolves and rats, and abuse of...
...pilot put off immediately, and rounding the Chateau d’If, got on board the vessel between Cape Morgion and Rion island. Immediately, and according to ... ...avigation saw plainly that if any accident had occurred, it was not to the vessel herself, for she bore down with all the evidence of being skilfully ... ...so much affected one of the crowd that he did not await the arrival of the vessel in harbor, but jumping into a small skiff, desired to be pulled alon... ...o — and clue up!” At this last command all the sails were lowered, and the vessel moved almost imperceptibly onwards. “Now, if you will come on board,... ... useful to you, and that is an excuse to share with me the produce of your fishing, and I accept it, Fernand, be- cause you are the son of my father’s... ...of Lemaire and Cape Croiselle, a quarter of a league distant, Dantes saw a fishing-boat driven rapidly like a spectre before the power of winds and wa... ... Alexandre Dumas 175 As he spoke, Dantes looked toward the spot where the fishing- vessel had been wrecked, and started. The red cap of one of the sa... ...e you up again.” “Why,” said Dantes, “if in two or three days you hail any fishing- boat, desire them to come here to me. I will pay twenty-five piast... ...nd the sun seemed to cover it with its fiery glance; afar off, a few small fishing boats studded the bosom of the blue ocean. Dantes had tasted nothin...
...he three-master, the Pharaon from Smyrna, Trieste, and Naples. As usual, a pilot put off immediately, and rounding the Chateau d?If, got on board the vessel between Cape Morgion and Rion island. Immediately, and according to custom, the ramparts of Fort Saint- Jean were covered with spectators; it is always an event at Marseilles for a ship to come into port, especially wh...
...ring men were particularly excited. Merchants, common sailors, captains of vessels, skippers, both of Europe and America, naval officers of all countr... ...e two continents, were deeply interested in the matter. For some time past vessels had been met by “an enor- mous thing,” a long object, spindle-shape... ...eaking. The officers of the quarter- deck hurried to the after-part of the vessel. They exam- ined the sea with the most careful attention. They saw n... ... victim of the shock, thanks to the reputation of the company to which the vessel belonged, the circumstance became extensively circulated. The 13th o... ...e frigate had been armed for a long campaign, and provided with formidable fishing apparatus, no one could tell what course to pursue. Impatience grew... ...ed to hear the recital of his adventures in the polar seas. He related his fishing, and his combats, with natural poetry of expression; his recital to... ...!” We were on the qui vive till daylight, and prepared for the combat. The fishing implements were laid along the hammock nettings. The second lieuten... ...rse; an excellent vessel, light and insubmersible, that serves either as a fishing or as a pleasure boat.” “But then, when you wish to embark, you are... ...s, capable of offering considerable resistance. During some experiments of fishing by electric light in 1864 in the Northern Seas, we saw plates less ...
...tion and excited the public mind, even in the interior of continents, seafaring men were particularly excited. Merchants, common sailors, captains of vessels, skippers, both of Europe and America, naval officers of all countries, and the Governments of several States on the two continents, were deeply interested in the matter....