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... has been engaged, by the Prince’s permission, to put you on board the Fox frigate. I sent a messenger down to Leith on purpose.’ ‘That will do excell...

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...t times, on account of her superior sailing qualities, in the ab- sence of frigates, despatched on separate duty as a scout and at times on less tempo... ...s now about to be narrated. Elsewhere it has been said that in the lack of frigates (of course better sailers than line-of-battle ships) in the Englis... ...h she unexpectedly came in sight of a ship of the enemy. It proved to be a frigate. The latter perceiving thro’ the glass that the weight of men and m...

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... specimen of his seamanship that he ever gave us. As we held on toward the frigate and shipping, a canoe, coming out from among them, approached. In i... ...tory about him. CHAPTER XXVII. A GLANCE AT PAPEETEE—WE ARE SENT ABOARD THE FRIGATE THE VILLAGE OF PAPEETEE struck us all very pleasantly. Lying in a s... ... After a talk with the mate, the consul withdrew, going aboard the T rench frigate, which lay within a cable’s length. We now suspected his object; an... ...uperfluous to litter up the deck; and there- fore, should we go aboard the frigate, our chests and their contents would have to be left behind. In an ... ...III. RECEPTION FROM THE FRENCHMAN IN A FEW MOMENTS, we were paraded in the frigate’s gang- way; the first lieutenant—an elderly yellow-faced officer, ... ...d the “crack” craft in the French navy. She is one of the heavy sixty-gun frigates now in vogue all over the world, and which we Yankees were the fir... ... PENED THERE FIVE DAYS AND NIGHTS, if I remember right, we were aboard the frigate. On the afternoon of the fifth, we were told that the next morning ... ... and every leaf fringed with flame. Escaped from the confined decks of the frigate, the air breathed spices to us; streams were heard flowing; green b... ...g, the rest ceased conversing, and, wearied with loss of rest on board the frigate, were soon sound asleep. After sliding from one reverie into anothe...

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...boom guyed out over the side. Her bowsprit cocked up like an old-fashioned frigate’ s; her jib-boom had been fished and sliced and nailed and clamped ... ...-fully for the day when sails should come back again on ten-thou- sand-ton frigates with hundred-and-ninety-foot booms. Manuel’ s talk was slow and ge...

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...endid poverty at best. Painted for sight, and essenced for the smell, Like frigates fraught with spice and cochineal, Sail in the ladies: how each pir...

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...mpest in the soul and flame in the blood” like Lieutenant Byelosov in the “Frigate Hope.” Women’ s hearts were “devoured” by them. The adjective appli...

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...ces to their various mysteries, hung in frames upon the walls; the T artar Frigate under weigh, was on the plates; outlandish shells, seaweeds, and mo... ...; and the presence of Florence in the back parlour, brightened the T artar frigate on the wall. Half an hour ago Walter, for his life, would have hard... ...e hands of Uncle Sol’ s chronometer, and moved them faster than the Tartar frigate ever went before the wind. Be this as it may, the visitors had a co... ...ll the choicest moveables out of the parlour, inclusive even of the Tartar frigate, which the Captain hung up over the chimney-piece with such extreme...

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...uire introduced us. ‘My grandson, Harry Richmond, Captain William Bulsted, frigate Polyphemus; Captain Bulsted, Master Augustus Temple.’ For the sake ... ...watched our lithe Dalmatians slide along the drenched decks of the V erona frigate. At night it blew a gale. I could imagine it to have been sent prov...

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... While the Pope was thus making his entry, the king crossed the water in a frigate and went to the lodging the Pope had just quitted, in order to go t...

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...ribly busy state, finishing up engines for innumerable gun-boats and steam frigates for the ensuing campaign.’ From half-past eight in the morning til...

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...eed on, the expedition was prepared, and on the 7th July the “Belle Poule” frigate, in company with “La Favorite” corvette, quitted Toulon harbor. A c... ... of the infame Hudson,” says a French writer, were passengers on board the frigate. Marchand, Denis, Pierret, Novaret, his old and faithful servants, ... ...hen the “Dolphin” English schooner gave her one- and-twenty guns; then the frigate returned the compli- ment of the “Dolphin” schooner; then she blaze... ...and aide-de-camp of the Gover- nor of St. Helena, came on board the French frigate, and brought his father’s best respects to his Royal High- ness. Th... ...the expedition, would be ready to receive it and con- duct it on board his frigate. A car drawn by four horses, decked with funereal emblems, had been... ...ately squared her masts and unfurled her colors. All the manoeuvers of the frigate were immediately followed by the other ves- sels. Our mourning had ... ...r salutes were 15 Thackeray fired during the passage from the quay to the frigate; the cutter advancing very slowly, and surrounded by the other boat... ... moment, the vessels fired a last salute with all their artillery, and the frigate took in her flags, keeping up only her flag at the stern and the ro... ...II. ON THE VOYAGE FROM ST. HELENA TO PARIS. On the 18th October the French frigate quitted the is- land with its precious burden on board. His Royal H...

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...id to have become rudimentary in function, though not in structure. In the frigate-bird, the deeply-scooped membrane between the toes shows that struc... ... place. Hence it will cause him no surprise that there should be geese and frigate-birds with webbed feet, either living on the dry land or most rarel... ..., we can hardly believe that the webbed feet of the upland goose or of the frigate-bird are of special use to these birds; we cannot believe that the ... ...spicarpa Asses, striped 435 Charles Darwin Ateuchus Audubon, on habits of frigate-bird; on variation in birds’-nests; on heron eating seeds Australia... ... of Fries on species in large genera being closely allied to other species Frigate-bird Frogs on islands Fruit-trees, gradual improvement of; in Unite...

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... along the shore, and to see if there was no creek where I might lay up my frigate in safety , so as to have her again if I wanted her. In about three... ... be supposed retired into my castle, after my late voyage to the wreck, my frigate laid up and secured under water, as usual, and my condition restore... ...a boat to go back to his own nation; and, accordingly, I carried him to my frigate, which lay on the other side of the island, and having cleared it o...

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... Barber, has been pressed on board the 115 Boswell’s Life of Johnson Stag Frigate, Captain Angel, and our lexicogra- pher is in great distress. He sa...

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...urs. It was all about himself, and the Peruvian government, and the Dublin frigate, and Lord James Townshend, and President Jackson, and the ship ... ...nd successor Riho Riho, who died in England, and was brought to Oahu in the frigate Blonde, Captain Lord Byron, and whose funeral he remembered perf... ...s said he was no shipmate. He had been a petty officer on board the British frigate Dublin, Capt. Lord James Townshend, and had great ideas of his o... ... which is one of the short- est on record. There, they left the Brandywine frigate, and other smaller American ships of war, and the English frigat... ... and the forecastle was the ‘‘betweendecks,’’ as high as the gun deck of a frigate; being six feet and a half, under the beams. These between decks ... ...boat’s crew of the Ayacucho said that when they left Callao, a large French frigate and the American frigate Brandywine, which were lying there, we... ... were lying there, were going outside to have a battle, and that the English frigate Blonde was to be umpire, and see fair play. Here was important n... ...th time, the story of his coming ashore at New York, from the Constellation frigate, after a cruise of four years round the Horn,—being paid off with... ... twice, and they were all glad enough to see the last of it. The Brandywine frigate, also, in her passage round, had sixty days off the Cape, and los...