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...uperscription Royal Sport Nautique, and joined in the talk. They were all very polite, voluble, and enthusiastic; and their discourse was interlarded ... .... They still knew 15 The Inland V oyage that the interest they took in their business was a trifling affair compared to their spontaneous, long-suffe... ...r- estedly toiling for mankind, and then most useful when they are most absorbed in their transactions; for the man is more important than his service... ...nd before he left, he was kind enough to order our bedroom candles. We endeavoured now and again to change the subject; but the diversion did not last... ...And there was yet another proposal which had the same effect on both of us. It appeared that the champion canoeist of Europe (as well as most other ch... ... the sun against Apollo. When the young man was gone, we countermanded our candles, and ordered some brandy and water. The great billows had gone over... ...he right place. In this mixed world, if you can find one or two sen- sible places in a man – above all, if you should find a whole family living toget... ...tionality have a different idea in view throughout. It was not till the very end that we discov- ered his heresy had been political, or that he suspec... ...rts of life; I wished to be in the thick of it once more; I wished to get to work; I wished to meet people who un- derstood my own speech, and could m...

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...into a line with what else when you ran into the little harbour; and other nautical profundities. Among the men who exchanged ideas with the captain w... ...o outspeaking was the sailor in him, that al- though his dress had nothing nautical about it, with the single exception of its colour, but was a suit ... ...r—a man of a certain plump neatness, with a curly whisker, and elaborately nautical in a jacket, and shoes, and all things correspondent—looked no mor... ...t. That, hereupon, he had written to his creditor, in no very per- suasive terms, vaguely requesting further time. That the creditor had refused this ...

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...espotism. An elaborate courtliness marks the race alone among Polynesians; terms of ceremony fly thick as oaths on board a ship; commoners my-lord eac... ... imminent, when the consuls interfered, and any war were preferable to the terms of the peace which they procured. By the Lackawanna treaty, Laupepa w... ...ingly, the consul, Dr. Stuebel, extorted a convention on the sub- ject, in terms of which Samoans convicted of offences against German subjects were t... ...s was the dinner- bell of the fono on the 15th. The threat conveyed in the terms of the summons – “If any government district does not quickly obey th... ... in a country, there must be oppression for a time.” But unfortunately the terms of the epigram may be reversed; and personal supervision would have b... ... the opposite point, Matautu. His men were thus drawn out along some three nautical miles of irregular beach, everywhere with their backs to the sea, ... ... the power of steam, should have been lost in Apia, belongs not so much to nautical as to political history. The weather throughout all that winter (t...

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...ppears in this and other almanacs. There is one that hints in pretty clear terms that with the Reform of Municipal Corpo- rations the ruin of the grea... ... famous of our artist’s publications; but it is very difficult to find new terms of praise, as find them one must, when reviewing Mr. Cruikshank’s pub... ...he Tom Dibdin school, treating of the virtues of British tars, in approved nautical language. They maul Frenchmen and Spaniards, they go out in brigs ...

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...r, the old lady unknown, blue with cold, who is setting her teeth on edge with a cool orange at my elbow—that the pastrycook who has compounded for th... ...to remonstrate against the gen- eral quality and cost of his reception. To whom the waiter replied, substantially, that Jairing’s made it a merit to h... ...ou shall see them always in the same hands and always developing their very best energies for the very worst company. I have known a donkey—by sight; ... ...ution by licking butter off his blood-stained hands. In a shy street, behind Long-acre, two honest dogs live, who perform in Punch’s shows. I may vent... ...s was natural, with the Chambers I had just left. They were an upper set on a rotten staircase, with a mysteri- ous bunk or bulkhead on the landing ou... ...rds, and sails—mainmast seventy feet high. At the word of command from the Skipper of this ship—a mahogany-faced Old Salt, with the indispensable quid... ...and hang slops there— pewter watches, sou’-wester hats, waterproof overalls—’firtht rate articleth, Thjack.’ Down by the Docks, such dealers exhibitin... ...g. There were several women among the diners, and several clerks and shopmen. There were carpenters and painters from the neighbouring buildings under... ...t noth- ing. Such is the unchanging manner of life with this nursery of our hardy seamen; and very dry nurses they are, and al- ways wanting something...

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...the faithful prostrated themselves. To return. If in some cases a bit of a nautical Murat in setting forth his person ashore, the Handsome Sailor of t... ...a sailor, more especially that he never garnished unprofessional talk with nautical terms, and grave in his bearing, evinced little appreciation of me... ... more especially that he never garnished unprofessional talk with nautical terms, and grave in his bearing, evinced little appreciation of mere humor.... ... merce with mankind where unobstructed free agency on 46 Billy Budd equal terms— equal superficially, at least—soon teaches one that unless upon occa... ... properly pertaining to his supreme position aboard his own ship. In clear terms and concise he told them what had taken place in the cabin; that the ...

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...y colleges the custom permitted the student to keep what are called “short terms”; that is, the four terms of Michaelmas, Lent, Easter, and Act, were ... ...- nal factions of shoemakers perhaps ten years later. Possibly enough, the terms may have existed much earlier; but they were then first made known, p... ...ly upon American ideas of grandeur, and concluding in something like these terms:— “And, sir, arriving at London, this mighty father of rivers attains... ...ears by supposing the case of a Siberian glorifying his coun- try in these terms:—“These wretches, sir, in France and En- gland, cannot march half a m... ...it had lain at the Bridgewater Arms. I had left it there in imitation of a nautical discoverer, who leaves a bit of bunting on the shore of his discov... ...m—for nationality it was not. Suffren, and some half dozen of other French nautical heroes, because rightly they did us all the mischief they could (w... ...ome loftier ranges, repel woods; the forests and the hills are on sociable terms. “Live and let live” is their motto. For this reason, in part, these ... ...ep silent remembrances, have been detected through murmur- ing, or what is nautically understood by “skulking.” So, for once, M. Michelet has an errat...

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...s, nearly knocking the bottom out of one of my boats in the course of that nautical operation. Then, all my crew assisting, engineers and firemen incl... ...d a certain respect, not for my moral qualities, however, but for the good terms I was supposed to be on with the Dutch “authori- ties.” I knew for a ... ...lamentation, devote himself to his “little estate,” and to keeping on good terms with the authorities. Time would do the rest. And Freya thought she c... ...a, with amused indignation. Incidentally, I learned also that Schultz, the nautical kleptomaniac with the pathetic voice, was still hanging on to his ...

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... out. It is not what your ship will not do that you want to know to get on terms of successful partnership with her; it is, rather, that you ought to ... ...I had heard it ut- tered between two thick, red-necked fellows of the semi-nautical type at the Fenchurch Street Railway- station, where, in those day... ...no doubt. An utterly, hopelessly depraved nature was expressed in physical terms, that taken each separately had nothing positively startling. You ima... ... (as our men alluded to her opprobriously) was after us at all. There were nautical difficulties in such a view which made me express the sanguine opi... ...r of a neophyte and the pride of an apt learner I was at that time a great nautical casuist. “What I can’t understand,” I insisted subtly, “is how on ... ...discussed. The first object of tac- tics is to close with the adversary on terms of the greatest possible advantage; yet no hard-and-fast rules can be...

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...guaranty of an unmolested repose; and security there was not, on any lower terms, for the latentis semita vitae. The slightest approach to any favorab... ...nts, my brother and I had the entrée at all times, but upon very different terms of acceptance: he as 67 Autobiographic Sketches a favorite of the fi... ...uck me that my brother never would degrade himself by fitting out a costly nautical expedition against poor little Gombroon; and how else could he get... ...we were, in fact, little saints. But the enemy could not be brought to any terms of accommodation. “That we will try,” said the vowel amongst our guar... ...ached my sixteenth year, and visited 121 Autobiographic Sketches him upon terms of friendship as close as can ever have ex- isted between a boy and a... ...at he might swim in the innocent blood which he had caused to be shed. But nautical men, I suspect, would have demurred to that estimate. Then were su... ... indispensable to the prosperity of the ship. Amongst the various parts of nautical skill communi- cated to my brother by his first fatherly captain, ... ... point of committing himself. Other causes might be assigned, causative of nautical super- stition, and tending to feed it. But enough. It is well kno... ...thout one particle of interest, my brother passed into the royal navy. His nautical accomplishments were now of the utmost importance to him; and, as ...

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...h the full consent of his relatives, and which seems to have satisfied his nautical ambition for a time. As told in the book, Melville met with more t... ...ir marriage fol- lowed on August 4, 1847, in Boston. The wanderings of our nautical Othello were thus brought to a conclusion. Mr. and Mrs. Melville r... ...nion as a reader is worth leaving who does not speak of your works in such terms as he might hesitate to employ, with all his patriotism, toward many ... ... was the dedication of new volumes to each other in highly compli- mentary terms—Mr. Melville’s ‘John Marr and Other Sail- ors,’ of which twenty-five ... ...ed of standard books of all classes, including, of course, a proportion of nautical literature. Especially interesting are fifteen or twenty first edi... ...e mountain, with a cluster of plantains within easy reach, criticizing her nautical evolutions as she was working her way out of the harbour. To be su... ...avourable opportunity that offered. 53 Melville CHAPTER SIX A SPECIMEN OF NAUTICAL ORATORY—CRITI- CISMS OF THE SAILORS—THE STARBOARD WATCH ARE GIVEN ... ...ing these preparations his harangue was commented upon in no very measured terms; and one of the party, after de- nouncing him as a lying old son of a... ...ight be met by stating that their language is almost entirely destitute of terms to express the delightful ideas conveyed by our endless cata- logue o...

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...eragents, &c., of this drug, expresses himself in the following mysterious terms [Greek text]: “Perhaps he thought the subject of too delicate a natur... ...any reason to feel it, in avowing that I was then on familiar and friendly terms with many women in that unfor- tunate condition. The reader needs nei... ...d now I come to the end of my story. The Jews did not approve of Lord D—’s terms; whether they would in the end have acceded to them, and were only se... ... the motion of time; and sometimes in my attempts to steer homewards, upon nautical principles, by fixing my eye on the pole-star, and seeking ambitio... ...brother. I have thus described and illustrated my intellectual tor- por in terms that apply more or less to every part of the four years during which ... ...readers), I was put in possession of the sum I asked for, on the “regular” terms of paying the Jew seventeen and a half per cent. by way of annuity on...

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...ere exhibited upon the grandest scale, according to every known variety of nautical equipment and mode of con- flict, upon a vast lake formed artifici... ...ion and subtlety. He was sure to risk nothing which could be had on easier terms; and nothing, unless for a great overbalance of gain in pros- pect; t... ... have guaranteed an event depending upon the final success of Augustus, on terms far below those which they must in prudence have exacted from the fie... ...tened to make their peace, whilst peace was yet open to them, on the known terms of absolute treachery to their former master, and instant sur- render... ... history, Augustus Cæsar is that one who exemplifies, in the most emphatic terms, the mixed tenor of human life, and the equitable distribution, even ... ...atre. Food could be had, and per- haps at no very exorbitant price, but on terms somewhat higher than the ordinary market price. A slight excuse serve...

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... for nationality it was not. Suffrein, and some half dozen of other French nautical heroes, because rightly they did us all the mischief they could, [... ...ike some loftier ranges, repel woods: the forests and they are on sociable terms. Live and let live is their motto. For this reason, in part, these tr... ...ep silent remembrances, have been de- tected through murmuring, or what is nautically understood by “skulking.” So, for once, M. Michelet has an errat... ...e of these the custom permitted the student to keep what are called “short terms;” that is, the four terms of Michaelmas, Lent, Easter, and Act, were ... ... nal fractions of shoemakers perhaps ten years later. Possibly enough, the terms may have existed much earlier; but they were then first made known, p... ...ly upon American ideas of grandeur, and concluding in something like these terms:— ”And, sir, arriving at London, this mighty father of rivers attains... ... ears, by supposing the case of a Siberian glorifying his country in these terms:—“These ras- cals, sir, in France and England, cannot march half a mi... ...it had lain at the Bridgewater Arms. I had left it there in imitation of a nautical discoverer, who leaves a bit of bunting on the shore of his discov...

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...e was the ship’s carpenter; and for that reason was sometimes known by his nautical cognomen of “Chips.” There was no absolute deformity about the man... ... the poor fellow with a bucket of salt water, and be- stowing upon him the nautical appellation of “Luff.” 30 Omoo Though a certain mirthfulness succ... ...mplishment, by the bye, together with a surprising fa- miliarity with most nautical names and phrases, comprised about all the English he knew. Being ... ...ust have come on within the hour. Assisted by his familiarity with medical terms, he seemed to produce a marked impression. At last, Johnson went his ... ...truders were out of sight, applauded Cap- tain Bob’s spirit in no measured terms; the ladies present vehemently joining in. Indeed, the kannakippers h... ...you rascals?” he cried—a greet- ing which provoked a retort in no measured terms. At this juncture, the natives began to crowd round, and several for-... ...y any means better off. His improvidence had at last driven him to don the nautical garb; but by this time his frock—a light cotton one—had almost giv... ...sumed a dictatorial tone in conversation, and was evidently upon excellent terms with himself. We found him reclining on a mat, smoking a reed-pipe of...

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... pable state, however, I recognised the lazy gentleman standing before me: nautically clad in a suit of shaggy blue, with an oilskin hat. But I was to... ...at they were to be imposed upon and shipwrecked, and who would on no other terms believe that he had been ashore, or had done anything but fraudulentl... ...ges with an involuntary imitation of the gait of Mr. T. P. Cooke, in a new nautical melodrama. ‘Dinner, if you please,’ said I to the waiter. ‘When?’ ... ...iary, and found it written in a fair legible square hand, and expressed in terms which were quite intelligible without any explana tion. On my saying... ...o. Perhaps it is above their station to indulge in such amusements, on any terms. Are we quite sure that we in England have not formed our ideas of th... ...the words length and width to such measurement would be a contradiction in terms. But I may state that we all kept the middle of the deck, lest the bo... ...g ‘Yes’ or ‘No, ’ I would allow it to be tried in certain cases, where the terms of imprisonment were short; but now, I solemnly declare, that with no... ... houses upon it, and at least as many flag masts, so that it looked like a nautical street. I saw many of these rafts afterwards, but never one so lar... ..., as on the long looked for morning of Tues day the Seventh of June. Some nautical authority had told me a day or two previous, ‘anything with west i...

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...ogress, one Mr. Linger-after-Lust with whom I fancy we are all on speaking terms; one famous among the famous for ingenu- ity of hope up to and beyond... ...mingled pity due to such a fate. But there is one thing to which, on these terms, we can never agree: – we can never agree to have you marry. What! yo... ...o preserve the attitude of their affections that they may meet on the same terms as they had parted. Pitiful is the case of the blind, who cannot read... ...toriously flown in the face of such precepts are spoken of in hyperbolical terms of praise, and honoured with public monuments in the streets of our c... ...d life in its dozen senses until we are weary of tricking; we may argue in terms of all the phi- losophies on earth, but one fact remains true through... ...e begins to move, swaggers among such persons with a sense of he- reditary nautical experience. To suppose yourself endowed with natural parts for the...

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...acked chairs—more like a farm kitchen than a ship’s cuddy. The sea and all nautical affairs seemed very far removed from the hospitality of this exemp... ... under no necessity to be amiable. He was sure to get his own extortionate terms out of me for towage whether he frowned or smiled. As a matter of fac... ...g Burmah pony—could by no means have passed. The constable seemed to be on terms of scornful intimacy with Maltese, with Eur- asians, with Chinamen, w...

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...oking to seaward. On the whole river there was nothing that looked half so nautical. He resembled a pilot, which to a seaman is trustworthiness person... ... come to him—why? Perhaps be- cause he was never ill … He had served three terms of three years out there … Because triumphant health in the general r... ... manager; ‘he sent his assistant down the river with a note to me in these terms: “Clear this poor devil out of the country, and don’t bother sending ...

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...tic cetacean. The interior arrangements of the frigate corresponded to its nautical qualities. I was well satisfied with my cabin, which was in the af... ...r will permit me, I will relate it in German.” But in spite of the elegant terms and good accent of the narrator, the German language had no success. ... ...cognise in him a fellow-countryman. He continued the conversation in these terms: “You have doubtless thought, sir, that I have delayed long in paying... ...when the Nautilus rises to the surface of the waves.” “These are the usual nautical instruments,” I replied, “and I know the use of them. But these ot... ...rfect liberty, we were delicately and abundantly fed. Our host kept to his terms of the treaty. We could not complain, and, indeed, the singularity of... ...n over, he approached the panel and pronounced a sentence in exactly these terms. I have remembered it, for every morning it was repeated under exactl... ...” he added, “true existence is there; and I can imagine the foundations of nautical towns, clusters of submarine houses, which, like the Nautilus, wou...