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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. Eilean Aros. It was a beautiful morning in the late July when I set forth on foot for the last time for Aros. A boat had put me ashore the night before at Grisapol; I had such breakfast as the little inn afforded, and, leaving all my baggage till I had an occasion to come round for it by sea, struck right across the promontory with a c...

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...AUTIFUL MORNING in the late July when I set forth on foot for the last time for Aros. A boat had put me ashore the night before at Grisapol; I had suc... ...t coun- try, two storeys high. It looked westward over a bay, with a pier hard by for a boat, and from the door you could watch the vapours blowing on... ...of the poisonous viper of the land. On calm days you can go wandering between them in a boat for hours, echoes following you about the labyrinth; but ... ... tide begins to run again, and above all in heavy weather, there is no man could take a boat within half a mile of it, nor a ship afloat that could ei... ...he Hebrideans. And, indeed, I think he had some claim to be called saint; for, with the boats of that past age, to make so rough a passage, and land o... ...d there was nothing for it but to stand on the far shore and whistle for Rorie with the boat. I had no need to repeat the signal. At the first sound, ... ...like of it unknown in all our waters, followed for some years the passage of the ferry- boat, until no man dared to make the crossing. ‘He will be wai... ...changes. The garden was fenced with the same wood that 11 Merry Men I had noted in the boat; there were chairs in the kitchen covered with strange br... ...ermaids, and sea-horses that had come ashore upon the islands and attacked the crews of boats upon the sea; and my uncle, in spite of his incredulity,...

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...me the sound of other whistles came to us from out of the fog. “That’s a ferry boat of some sort,” the newcomer said, indicating a whistle off to the ... ...er man. Ah, I thought so. Now hell’s a poppin’ for somebody!” The unseen ferry boat was blowing blast after blast, and the mouth blown horn was tootin... ...d I could hear the whistle plainly, off to one side and a little ahead. “Ferry boat?” I asked. He nodded, then added, “Or he wouldn’t be keepin’ up su... ... hazy way I saw and heard men rushing and shouting as they strove to lower the boats. It was just as I had read descriptions of such scenes in books. ... ... descriptions of such scenes in books. The tackles jammed. Nothing worked. One boat lowered away with the plugs out, filled with women and children and... ...ut, filled with women and children and then with water, and cap sized. Another boat had been lowered by one end, and still hung in the tackle by the o... ...caused the disaster, though I heard men saying that she would undoubtedly send boats to our assistance. I descended to the lower deck. The Martinez wa... ...eard, also, the sound of oars. Evidently the strange steamboat had lowered its boats. As the time went by I marvelled that I was still alive. I had no... ...cles like a horse. Pack up your kit and go for’ard into the fo’c’sle. You’re a boat puller now. You’re promoted; see?” Without waiting for the boy’s a...

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...and the baby seemed to me to be all right when it was handed down into the boat at Suez. The Robinsons were allowed time to breakfast at that cavernou... ...ored to the quay, but there was no life in them; not a sail was set, not a boatman or a sailor was to be seen, and the very water looked as though it ... ...d fancy the glare of the sun was cracking the paint on the gunwales of the boats. I was the only visitor in the house, and during all the long hours o... ...sia, on the other side of the head of the Red Sea. Mahmoud would provide a boat to take across the party in the morning, and camels on which we would ... ...r else we would go and return on camels, or go on camels and return in the boat. Indeed any ar- rangement would be made that I preferred. If I was afr... ... made that I preferred. If I was afraid of the heat, and disliked the open boat, I could be car- ried round in a litter. The provisions had already be... ...g morning I was dressed at six, and, looking out of my bed-room, I saw the boat in which we were to be wafted into Asia being brought up to the quay c... ... we should start early, so as to avoid the mid-day sun, break- fast in the boat,—Mahmoud in this way engaged to pro- vide me with two refections,—take... ...window, I could see a basket laden with long-necked bottles going into the boat, and became aware that we should not depend altogether for our morning...

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...ther cargo as was unshipping at the pier from the dancing fleet of village boats, and from two or three little coasting traders. As the beasts of burd... ...d, and I got enough way upon her in good time to keep her off. I ordered a boat to be lowered and manned, and went in that boat myself to 13 Charles ... ...ple on which I came to see this bottle. I picked up the bottle and ran the boat alongside the is- land, and made fast and went ashore armed, with a pa... ...gside the is- land, and made fast and went ashore armed, with a part of my boat’s crew. We found that every scrap of vegetation on the island (I give ...

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... so the more) even as that poor dozen was clattering up the hill, a great ship of the king’s navy, that could have brought them under with a single bo... ...the ship, but newly come to anchor. She was the Sainte-Marie-des-Anges, out of the port of Havre-de-Grace. The Master, after we had signalled for a bo... ...and to perceive her go about and head for the Sainte- Marie. But our gratification did not very long endure; for when she had laid to and lowered a bo... ...and then again, and further off, a creak of oars upon the other. It was clear we had been sighted yesterday in the morning; here were the cruiser’s bo... ...e perilously placed; and as we lay there on our oars, praying God the mist might hold, the sweat poured from my brow. Presently we heard one of the bo... ...oms like those of poison, and in the course of a few hours expired in the bottom of the canoe. We thus lost at once our guide, our interpreter, our bo... ... by the unbroken woods; and the sides of the lakes were quite impassable with bog: so that we beheld ourselves not only condemned to go without our bo... ...good by him?” “Sure, and you can have it your own way, my dear man,” says the Colonel. By this time we had come to the side of the creek, where the bo... ... if I had been to blame for this partiality; then changed again into his usual swaggering ci- vility, shook me by the hand, and set off down to the bo...

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..., Hard coils of cordage, swarthy fishing-nets, Anchors of rusty fluke, and boats updrawn, And built their castles of dissolving sand To watch them ove... ...efore his eyes, To hoard all savings to the uttermost, To purchase his own boat, and make a home For Annie: and so prosper’d that at last A luckier or... ...vorably: And ere he touch’d his one-and-twentieth May He purchased his own boat, and made a home For Annie, neat and nestlike, halfway up The narrow s... ...man and valued him, Reporting of his vessel China-bound, And wanting yet a boatswain. Would he go? 7 Enoch Arden, &c. There yet were many weeks befo... ...ildren—what to do? Then Enoch lay long-pondering on his plans; To sell the boat—and yet he loved her well— How many a rough sea had he weather’d in he... ...fy lanes, The peacock-yewtree and the lonely Hall, The horse he drove, the boat he sold, the chill November dawns and dewy-glooming downs, The gentle ... ...uld he turn his hand. Cooper he was and carpenter, and wrought To make the boatmen fishing-nets, or help’d At lading and unlading the tall barks, That... ... does the stranded wreck See thro’ the gray skirts of a lifting squall The boat that bears the hope of life approach To save the life despair’d of, th...

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...amuse yourself first, also. You must go down and see Mrs. Westgate.” “We should be so happy, if you would kindly tell us the train,” said Percy Beaumo... ... of the city, and I will immediately send out and get you a cabin. Then, at half past four o’clock, just call for me here, and I will go with you and ... ... they reached the huge white vessel while the bell for departure was still ringing and the absorption of pas- sengers still active. It was indeed, as ...

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...ts as boundless, and souls as free’: But, suppose you are very unwell in the boat, How do you like the Sea? There is an insect that people avoid (When...

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... that ye bury me not in this country, but as soon as I am dead put me in a boat at the next haven, and let me go as adventure will lead me; and as soo...

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...urselves what we should do. During which time there made forth to us a small boat, with about eight persons in it, whereof one of them had in his hand... ...would scarce look upon them; and so left us, and went back in another little boat which was sent for him. About three hours after we had despatched ... ...me down below the brims of it. A reverend man was he to behold. He came in a boat, gilt in some part of it, with four persons more only in that boat; ... ...of it, with four persons more only in that boat; and was followed by another boat, wherein were some twenty. When he was come within a flight shot of ... ... forth some to meet him upon the water, which we pres ently did in our ship boat, sending the principal man amongst us save one, and four of our numb... ...and four of our number with him. When we were come within six yards of their boat, they called to us to stay, and not to approach farther, which we di... ...nother of the attendants of the great person, which was with him in the same boat, after his lord had spoken a little to him, said aloud: “My lord wou... ...so after put The New Atlantis – Bacon 11 themselves into a number of small boats to go nearer to this marvellous sight. But when the boats were come... ... so as they might move to go about, but might not approach nearer; so as the boats stood all as in a theatre, beholding this light, as a heavenly sign...

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...ld not be doubted. But how admit that the con- struction of this submarine boat had escaped the public eye? For a private gentleman to keep the secret... ...of view. The Shipping and Mercantile Gazette, the Lloyd’s List, the Packet-Boat, and the Maritime and Colonial Review, all papers devoted to insurance... ...with it. “Well, Mr. Land,” asked the captain, “do you advise me to put the boats out to sea?” “No, sir,” replied Ned Land; “because we shall not take ... ...sappear? Had the Abraham Lincoln veered round? Would the captain put out a boat? Might I hope to be saved? The darkness was intense. I caught a glimps... ... as our only chance of safety was being picked up by the Abraham Lincoln’s boats, we ought to manage so as to wait for them as long as pos- sible. I r... ...e miles from us, and looked like a dark mass, hardly dis- cernible. But no boats! I would have cried out. But what good would it have been at such a d... ...some other victim of the shock sustained by the vessel? Or rather was it a boat from the frigate, that was hailing us in the darkness? Conseil made a ... ... time to lose, however. We were lying upon the back of a sort of submarine boat, which appeared (as far as I could judge) like a huge fish of steel. N... ...ainly sought an expla- nation? What kind of beings existed in this strange boat? What mechanical agent caused its prodigious speed? Daybreak appeared....

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... beyond the wont of a wife, Serving the lad for eyes and living herself in his life. Alone from the sea and the fishing came Tamatea the fair, Urging ... ...e signals wanting of how the leaven wrought, In the cords of obedience loosed and the tributes grudgingly brought. And when last to the temple of Oro ... ...e bearers indifferently took up. Ballads 5 So spake on the beach the mother, matter worthy of note, And wattled a basket well, and chose a fish from ... ...ancient ways of the land: – “Our sires of old in Taiarapu, they that created the race, Ate ever with eager hand, nor regarded season or place, Ate in ... ...au sailed and were glad all day, Coasting the palm-tree cape and crossing the populous bay By all the towns of the Tevas; and still as they bowled alo... ... then were swallowed of smoke. In the mind of Rahero clearness came; and he opened his throat; And as when a squall comes sudden, the straining sail o... ...nds of the clan Repeopled. So Rahero designed, a prudent man Even in wrath, and turned for the means of revenge and escape: Robert Louis Stevenson 24... ... while, a sedulous fisher, he walked the reef, Pausing at times and gazing, striking at times with the spear: – Lastly, uttered the call; and even as ... ... – Lastly, uttered the call; and even as the boat drew near, Like a man that was done with its use, tossed the torch in the sea. Lightly he leaped on ...

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... he might live to be Old Kafoozleum. No, I guess it’s healthy.” “There’s a boat coming now,” said I. “She’s right in the pass; looks to be a sixteen-f... ...o be a sixteen-foot whale; two white men in the stern sheets.” “That’s the boat that drowned Whistling Jimmie!” cried the Captain; “let’s see the glas... ...r a drawing-room; and when he chose he could blaspheme worse than a Yankee boatswain, and talk smart to sicken a Kanaka. The way he thought would pay ... ...t, rounded 21 Island Nights’ Entertainments off at both ends like a whale-boat, a big native roof on the top of it, windows without sashes and doorwa... ...nd of singing out of the sea; it sprang up suddenly clear and near, as the boat turned the headland, and Uma, running to the window, cried out it was ... ...n CHAPTER III. THE MISSIONARY. A S I CAME OUT on the verandah, the mission-boat was shooting for the mouth of the river. She was a long whale-boat pai... ..., steering; some four-and-twenty paddles flashing and dipping, true to the boat-song; and the missionary under the awning, in his white clothes, readi... ...to see and hear; there’s no smarter sight in the islands than a missionary boat with a good crew and a good pipe to them; and I considered it for half... ...e, and he got up staggering, and went off by the way that he had come. The boat was close in; I saw the missionary had laid his book to one side, and ...

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... book resting on his knees. Perhaps he had remembered suddenly how fond of boat-sail- ing she used to be. She had been a real shipmate and a true woma... .... It was stag- gering to think that it was open to him no longer to take a boat at the jetty and get himself pulled off to her when the evening came. ... ...o talk slowly. “A leadsman, you want! I suppose that’s your cor- rect mail-boat style. Haven’t you enough judgment to tell where you are by looking at... ...ling on the bridge; a creeper with a great rustle snapped on the head of a boat davit, and a long, luxuriant green twig actually whipped in and out of... ... the gong signified that the captain had done with them. A great number of boats and canoes of all sizes boarded the off-side of the Sofala. Then afte... ...ountry from him. He crossed the river frequently (with never less than ten boats crammed full of people), in the wistful hope of extracting some in- f... ...n Wyk sought, he could not have pitched upon a better place. Even the mail-boats of the sub- sidized company calling on the veriest clusters of palm-t... ... mind to ask that German firm—those people in Malacca—what was their name?—boats with green funnels. They would be only too glad of the opening to put... ...rn you got for it, eh? Pretty. Write to Schnitzler—let in the green-funnel boats—get an old Hamburg Jew to ruin him. No, re- ally he could laugh… . He...

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...and upon the land that he was king over. Then there was launching of great boats and small, and full of noble men of arms; and there was much slaughte... ...his people that were dead. And then was noble Sir Gawaine found in a great boat, lying more than half dead When Sir Arthur wist that Sir Gawaine was l...

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...ped out. He gave me a thump on the back. ‘Give what orders you like to the boatswain when the hands turn-to,’ says he; ‘I am off duty this afternoon.’... ... the water. Nothing! nothing whatever! In a moment there were half-a-dozen boats around us, and he got pulled into one. I, with the boatswain and the ... ... lunch—as usual with him. It was five in the evening before the last shore boat left the side, and the weather looked ugly and dark in the gulf. There... ... little dock on the Ile Royale and a sentry put over her and a few smaller boats. From that time till next morning the island of St. Jo- seph remains ... ... came alongside in the morning. The galley once in their possession, other boats were to be captured, and the whole company was to row away up the coa... ...lashed upon the officer in command and the bayonets of the soldiers in the boat. Then she sat down and began to cry. “She didn’t need me any more. I d... ...ad and was rocking herself to and fro in her grief. But I remarked a small boat fastened to the end of the pier. “Those two men—they looked like sous-... ...o. I could not believe my eyes in the very moment I was stepping into that boat. “I pulled along the shore slowly. A black cloud hung over the Iles de... ...e too long to pull comfortably. I managed them with difficulty, though the boat herself was light. But when I got round to the other side of the islan...

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...nging, children were play- 42 The War in the Air ing in the sun, pleasure-boats went to and fro; the common abundant life of the time, unsuspicious o... ...ther, and a wide waste of weltering waters below him. Far away was a pilot boat with a big sail bearing dim black letters, and a little pinkish-yellow... ...nt rescue, which almost cost him his life, of three drowning tailors whose boat had upset in the sea near Heligoland. For that and his victory over th... ...kened, and smok- ing rafts of ruin against the sun. But the Bremen had two boats out; the Theodore Roosevelt was also dropping boats to where the drif... ...he towering buildings, the public 123 H G Wells squares, the active ferry boats, and every favourable street intersection had its crowds: all the riv... ...g sound like, but fainter than, the beating of ripples under the stem of a boat. She was sta- tioned over the temporary City Hall in the Park Row buil... ...rn, with double up-tilted wings and the screw ahead, and the men were in a boat-like body netted over. From this very light long body, magazine guns p... ...d be put together in as many weeks. Moreover, compared with even a torpedo boat, the airship was remark- ably simple to construct, given the air-chamb... ... it was reallt not more complicated and far easier than an ordinary wooden boat had been a hundred years before. And now from Cape Horn to Nova Zembla...

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...ed, and in a form yet more amusing than the original, at the tiller of the boats on the tem- pestuous Erie Canal or, more likely, vaporing in the grog... ... naming his ships after Voltaire, Diderot, and so forth. But now, when the boat swept under the merchantman’s stern, and officer and oarsmen were noti... ...midships between fore-mast and mainmast and among which the ship’s largest boat, the launch, was stowed. Alongside of three other slumberers from belo... ..., then, at a sign, it was pierced and suppressed by shrill whistles of the Boat- swain and his Mates piping down one watch. To be prepared for burial ... ... function, one as exactly prescribed to him by military law as that of the boatswain or any other naval officer. Bluntly put, a chap- lain is the mini... ...d by the capacious launch and the black booms tiered on either side of it, boat and booms making a summit of observation for the powder- boys and youn... ...reparations personal to the latter being speedily brought to an end by two boatswain’s mates, the con- 80 Billy Budd summation impended. Billy stood ... ...g that it came with abrupt unexpectedness. “Pipe down the starboard watch, Boatswain, and see that they go.” Shrill as the shriek of the sea-hawk the ... ...ee that they go.” Shrill as the shriek of the sea-hawk the whistles of the Boatswain and his Mates pierced that ominous low sound, dissipating it; and...

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...had fished the east coast from Fisherrow to Whitby. When the season was over, and the great boats, which required extra hands, were once drawn up on s... ... a fisherman for noth- ing.’ For it is no light matter, as he reminded me, to be in an open boat, perhaps waist-deep with herrings, day breaking with ... ...fare; and even if he makes land at some bleak fisher port, perhaps the season is bad or his boat has been unlucky and after fifty hours’ unsleeping vi... ...The night had fallen already when I reached the water- side, at a place where many pleasure-boats are moored and ready for hire; and as I went along a... ...iant than a heather mixture; ‘My Johnny’s grey breeks,’ well pol- ished over the oar on the boat’s thwart, entered largely into its composition. And t... ... mind working on the thought of what you may have seen off a foreland or over the side of a boat, and make you feel like a diver, down in the quiet wa... ...flight of time, and told her how white and quiet the dead lay under the stones, and how the boat dipped and pitched as the shades embarked for the pas... ...lean over the gunwale to see the image of the tall poplars far below, and the shadow of the boat, with the bal- anced oars and their own head protrude...

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...teur-sculler, well up to his work though tak- ing it easily, in so light a boat that the Rogue remarked: ‘A little less on you, and you’ d a’most ha’ ... ...ass handles and sluices, to let the sculler in. As the latter stood in his boat, holding on by the boat-hook to the woodwork at the lock side, waiting... ...ged to recognize him. The creaking lock-gates opened slowly, and the light boat passed in as soon as there was room enough, and the creaking lock-gate... ...sing the scum which had formed behind the lumbering gates, and sending the boat up, so that the sculler gradually rose like an apparition against the ... ... no!’ As he expressively jerked his pointing finger in the direc- tion the boat had taken, a flush of impatience mounted into Bradley’s face, and he l... ...you! He won’t be lost if he does land,’ said Riderhood. ‘He must leave his boat behind him. He can’t make a bundle or a parcel on it, and carry it ash... ... friend. After a few moments they walked side by side in the direction the boat had taken, as if by tacit consent; Bradley pressing for- 8 Our Mutual... ...s furtive hand laid upon the dagger as he passed it, and his eyes upon the boat, were much upon a par. The boat went on, under the arching trees, and ... ...med Riderhood, starting up. ‘I have.’ ‘Where?’ ‘ At his journey’s end. His boat’s hauled up for three days. I heard him give the order. Then, I saw hi...