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...George Hamilton was the surgeon assigned to the frigate Pandora. The British Admiralty ordered the ship to the Pacific to arrest the Bounty mutineers and bring them back to England for trial. The commander, Captain Edward Edwards, also was ordered to chart the passage betw...

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...d we skated arm in arm, the sky unblemished; we swished between ice-bound frigates, toqued sailors leaning over, waving and jeering. It was almost Ch... ...ide a striped purple and gold tent, laughs alongside the scabby hulk of a frigate, warms her hands before a fire. Ellen...your face is real... I can... ...seamen, each crewman called by name. There is adequate leisure aboard his frigate. I never saw anything done “on the double” as aboard an Essex ship... ... of the Crown: to carry out my plans I will require several shallow draft frigates and several small boats; there are no accurate maps and the mine ... ...le thirst when his ship ran out of water at sea; he is boarding a Spanish frigate, raiding for guns... ’Sblood, the Spanish are a cruel lot, chain... ...gs kill him. I confided in Raleigh as we stood on a pier, near one of his frigates...the Thames wind whipping our clothes. How well I recall his ex...

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... was a tavern; every quid of tobacco used by one of her sailors would supply a frigate's crew for three years; a dram of grog was composed of seventee... ...le array. Seven men-of- war of the first class led the way, followed by eleven frigates and over forty smaller vessels, the force on board consisting ... ...ank was confirmed by the admiralty, and he was appointed to the command of the frigate Mercury, and attached to the squadron sent out to co- operate w...

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...imensions, armed not with a halberd, but with a real spur, as the armoured frigates, or the `rams’ of war, whose massiveness and motive power it would... ...arsenals were opened to Commander Farragut, who hastened the arming of his frigate; but, as it always happens, the moment it was decided to pursue the... ...ped a telegram on its pas- sage and was making the most of it. So when the frigate had been armed for a long campaign, and provided with formidable fi... ...enterprise might be hazardous in pursuit of an animal capable of sinking a frigate as easily as a nutshell. Here there was matter for reflection even ... ... who is pretty wide-awake.” Our luggage was transported to the deck of the frigate immediately. I hastened on board and asked for Com- mander Farragut... ...ncoln had been well chosen and equipped for her new destination. She was a frigate of great speed, fitted with high-pressure engines which admitted a ... ...t to grapple with this gigantic cetacean. The interior arrangements of the frigate corresponded to its nautical qualities. I was well satisfied with m... ...oln to the pier of Brooklyn. So in a quarter of an hour, perhaps less, the frigate would have sailed without me. I should have missed this extraordina... ...gut. CHAPTER IV NED LAND CAPTAIN FARRAGUT was a good seaman, worthy of the frigate he commanded. His vessel and he were one. He was the soul of it. On...

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...han wearing it A whole existence through. XCIX THERE is no frigate like a book T o take us lands away, Nor any coursers like a page... ...coming mentioned be. If spoken by the distant bird, If met in ether sea By frigate or by merchantman, Report was not to me. XIX I STARTED ... ... visited the sea; The mermaids in the basement Came out to look at me, And frigates in the upper floor Extended hempen hands, Presuming me to be a mou... ...ce, 264 There is a word 168 There is another Loneliness 260 There is no frigate like a book 59 There’s a certain slant of light, 128 There’s been...

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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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...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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... 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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...d for four months, employed as a clerk. He joined the crew of the American frigate United States, which reached Boston, stopping on the way at one of ... ... that claim particular notice. Porter’s ‘Journal of the Cruise of the U.S. frigate Essex, in the Pacific, during the late War’, is said to contain som... ... stream- ers, was observed to shove off from the side of one of the French frigates, and pull directly for our gangway. In the stem sheets reclined Mo... ...too, was this same Rear-Admiral Du Petit Thouars. Four heavy, doublebanked frigates and three cor- vettes to frighten a parcel of naked heathen into s... ...rces about five months—set sail for the doomed island in the Reine Blanche frigate. On his arrival, as an indemnity for alleged insults offered to the... ...fault of payment, threatened to land and take possession of the place. The frigate, immediately upon coming to an anchor, got springs on her cables, a... ...fty staff planted within a few yards of the beach, and in full view of the frigate. One morn- ing an officer, at the head of a party of men, presented... ...been told that a considerable de- tachment of sailors and marines from the frigate Essex, ac- companied by at least two thousand warriors of Happar an... ...- cal appearance of these people; and Commodore David Por- ter of the U.S. frigate Essex, is said to have been vastly smit- ten by the beauty of the l...

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...s to be noted that, from our insular situation, and the multi- tude of our frigates disposable for the rapid transmission of intelligence, rarely did ... ...own one of these, with the fiery pace of a quarrel from a cross-bow, ran a frigate right 131 athwart our course. “Are they mad?” some voice exclaimed... ...that vast sweeping toga, filling with a strong gale like the mainsail of a frigate. Conceive the roars with which this magnificent figure would be rec... ...gher civilization. The next relay on that line of road, the next repeating frigate, is Cowper in his poem on Conversa- 164 tion. He speaks of four o’...

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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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... is to be noted that, from our insular situation, and the multitude of our frigates disposable for the rapid transmis- sion of intelligence, rarely di... ...own one of these, with the fiery pace of a quarrel from a cross-bow, ran a frigate right athwart our course. “Are they mad?” some voice ex- claimed fr...

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...ut? — Giving a party to the last arrived harpooneers, I dare say, gay as a frigate’s pennant, and so am I — fa, la! lirra, skirra! Oh — We’ll drink to... ... Cetus far beyond the utmost stretch of Hydrus and the Flying Fish. With a frigate’s anchors for my bridle bitts and fasces of harpoons for spurs, wou... ...the sea will insult and murder him, and pulverize the stateliest, stiffest frigate he can make; nevertheless, by the continual repetition of these ver... ... gigantic Sperm Whale lay rolling in the water like the capsized hull of a frigate, his broad, glossy back, of an Ethiopian hue, glistening in the sun... ...s rust, and untold hopes and anchors rot; where in her murderous hold this frigate earth is ballasted with bones of millions of the drowned; there, in... ...s, — a pike and gaff man and a spade man. The whaling pike is similar to a frigate’s boarding weapon of the same name. The gaff is something like a bo... ...t harbors, with broad sheets of flame for sails, bore down upon the Turkish frigates, and folded them in conflagrations. The hatch, removed from the top... ... hundred legs. I feel strained, half stranded, as ropes that tow dismasted frigates in a gale; and I may look so. But ere I break, ye’ll hear me crack...

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...out?— Giving a party to the last arrived harpooneers, I dare say, gay as a frigate’s pennant, and so am I—fa, la! lirra, skirra! Oh— We’ll drink to-ni... ... Cetus far beyond the utmost stretch of Hydrus and the Flying Fish. With a frigate’s anchors for my bridle-bitts and fasces of har- poons for spurs, w... ... gigantic Sperm Whale lay rolling in the water like the capsized hull of a frigate, his broad, glossy back, of an Ethiopian hue, glistening in the sun... ...s rust, and untold hopes and anchors rot; where in her murderous hold this frigate earth is ballasted with bones of millions of the drowned; there, in... ...irs,— a pike-and-gaffman and a spade-man. The whaling-pike is similar to a frigate’s boarding-weapon of the same name. The gaff is something like a bo... ... harbors, with broad sheets of flame for sails, bore down upon the Turkish frigates, and folded them in conflagrations. The hatch, removed from the to... ... hundred legs. I feel strained, half stranded, as ropes that tow dismasted frigates in a gale; and I may look so. But ere I break, yell hear me crack;...

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...tle, I’ve been at the whipping of two of them in one day—clean built, snug frigates with standing royals and them new-fashioned cannonades on their qu... ...nt to see mountains. Why, good woman, I’ve been off there in the Boadishey frigate, when you could see nothing but some such matter as a piece of sky,... ... she behaved herself so well! Oh! she was a sweet ship, mistress! That one frigate was well worth more, to live in, than the best house in the island.... ...ord Harry, woman, I should as soon think of calling the Boadishey a clumsy frigate. What the devil would you have? Arn’t her eyes as bright as the mor...

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...fely, despite the enemy’s fleet; and kept his word. The convoy was of five frigates. The Chevalier de Sillery, before starting, married Mademoiselle B... ...t was returned; and as some 91 Saint-Simon light vessels passing near the frigates said that the King and Queen were looking on, the Prince ordered a... ...lf almost entirely unsupported. The people even refused provi- sion to his frigates. However, the Prince’s partisans at length arrived to salute him. ... ...on, and was obliged to take refuge on the coast of Picardy. This vessel, a frigate, was commanded by Rambure, a lieutenant. As, soon as he was able he... ...uage. A gentleman of the country passed from one of these barques upon the frigate. He told Rambure that the princi- pal noblemen of Scotland had reso... ...usketry. Rambure tried, for a long time, to profit by the lightness of his frigate to get ahead; but, always cut off by the enemy’s vessels, and con- ...

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...jah’s compound in expectation of a visit from Dutch man- of-war boats. The frigate remained anchored outside the mouth of the river, and the boats cam... ...iles of river from Sambir to the gem-like islands of the estuary where the frigate was awaiting the return of the boats. The moon rose long before the... ...ig was clear of the reefs, but the persistent chase given him by the Dutch frigate had forced him to run south and ultimately to wreck and de- stroy h... ... side of the ditch, behind the bush, by the clear fires, the seamen of the frigate had encamped on the hospi- table invitation of Almayer. Almayer, ro... ... pompously. “This is my daugh- ter. Nina, these gentlemen, officers of the frigate outside, have done me the honour to accept my hospitality.” Nina an... ...sed, at his violence. From the camping fires round which the seamen of the frigate were sitting came words of encouragement, mingled with laughter and...

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...e island. They have 1,000 209 Yo n g e men in New Caledonia, steamers and frigates of war; and he told me plainly that this island and Nengone are co... ...els of land, for instance, one acre. The captain of the “Iris,” an English frigate, called on him on Monday, and sent me a letter by him, making it qu... ...et into play for five minutes or so. ‘July 16th.—The captain of the “Iris” frigate passing Lifu dropped me a line which satisfied me that the French w...

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...ort ‘emselves. The ship she was the Embuscade, a thirty-six-gun Republican frigate, Cap- tain Jean Baptiste Bompard, two days out of Le Havre, going t... ...st have been passing the time o’ day with each other off Newhaven, and the frigate had drifted past ‘em. She never knew she’d run down our smack. Seei... ...etty tottly, but I made shift to go on deck, which it was like a fair. The frigate was crowded with fine gentlemen and ladies pouring in and out. They... ...tic like a hen through a horse-fair. Even so, we was stopped by an English frigate, three days out. He sent a boat alongside and pressed seven able se... ...hey was fighting all creation and hadn’t time to argue. The next En- glish frigate we escaped with no more than a shot in our quar- ter. Then we was c... ...e leave them behind (as we do now and then) We are sure of a gun from Each frigate we run from, Which is often destruction to poor honest men! Broadsi...

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...fue Martling, a large blue bearded Dutchman, who had nearly taken a British frigate with an old iron nine pounder from a mud breastwork, only that hi...