Most of the punishments at this time were severe, with the death penalty (hanging) applied for fairly minor crimes.
4. A navy has several main jobs. 105. 5. (repetition of the long “i” sound) 2. As on boats, the front of a ship is called the bow. They have internal-combustion engines that run on diesel fuel or gas. The anchor was attached to a length of rope. 3. he exclaimed, leaning over the railing of the The land of the barbarians, his father boomed from across the They actually had some horse manure boxed up and ready to The captain was responsible for the freight and the The word is still sometimes employed in this sense, as of the When the cable is to be laid it is transferred to a cable After the cable has been again subjected to the proper electrical tests and found to be in perfect condition, the The end is taken into the testing room in the cable-house and the conductor connected with the testing instruments, and, should the electrical tests continue satisfactory, the This involves the introduction of machinery for measuring and controlling the speed at which it leaves the The average speed is obtained very accurately from solar and stellar observations for the position of the 1 It is evident from equation (13) that the angle of immersion depends solely on the speed of the When this has been done an electrical test is applied, and if the original fracture is between The repair being thus completed, the various mark buoys are picked up, and the tariff, and in the seven financial years from 1900-1907: the British The manufacture of the cable, begun early in the following year, was finished in June, and before the end of July it was stowed partly in the American The offices of the Submarine Company in London, Dover, Ramsgate, East Dean and Jersey were purchased by the Post Office, as well as the cable Its simplicity and compactness recommended it immediately for communication between It was found to be peculiarly adapted for communication between In recent apparatus, to enable it to be used on board During his long service as a lieutenant he took part in the bombardment of Tripoli, and on a subsequent occasion showed great firmness in resisting the seizure of a seaman as an alleged deserter from the British navy, his Eventually a Biscayan named Sebastian del Cano, sailing home by way of the Cape of Good Hope, reached San Lucar in command of the " Victoria " on the 6th of September 1522, with eighteen survivors; this one He was in Botany Bay in January 1788; and sailing thence, the explorer, his Here he was confronted by his first wife or victim, Anne Thorssen, whose claims he satisfied by the gift of a By an invention probably due to Humfray Cole and published in 1 578 by William Bourne in his Inventions and Devices, it was proposed to register a Conradus Mel in his Antiquarius Sacer (1719) described a "pantometron nauticum" which he claimed would show without calculation the distance sailed by the It follows that, if, say, five knots of the line run out in 28 seconds, the To "heave the log," a man holds the log-reel over his head (at high speeds the man and portable reel are superseded by a fixed reel and a winch fitted with a brake), and the officer places the peg in the log-Such a "ground-log" indicates the actual speed over the ground, and in addition, when the log-line is being hauled in, it will show the real course the The deck log book, kept by the officers of the watch, is copied into the In the 16th century the city was the strongest Spanish fortress in the New World, excepting Cartagena, and gold and silver were brought hither by But he first revisited India and then, returning to Malacca, took After a short stay at Singapore, whence he despatched several letters to India and Europe, the Certayne Ecloges of Alexander Barclay, Priest, written in his youth, were probably printed as early as 1513, although the earliest extant edition is that in John Cawood's reprint (1570) of the After the round shape was introduced, the one side was always inscribed with the figure of a Some prominent Jews fled from Jerusalem - as from a sinking of Cape Lithinos is the small bay of Kali Limenes or Fair Havens, where the Pascagoula and Point aux Chenes bays; separated from it by the shallow and practically unnavigable Mississippi Sound is a chain of low, long and narrow sand islands, the largest of which are Petit Bois, Horn, The principal lines are the Illinois Central, the Yazoo & Mississippi Valley, the Southern, the Mobile & Ohio, the New Orleans & North-eastern, the Kansas City, Memphis & Birmingham, the Mobile, Jackson & Kansas City, the Alabama & Vicksburg, and the Gulf & Hugh's only son Richard, who was childless, was drowned in the White The journey lasted ten months; and on the explorer's arrival in Peru, Acuna prepared his narrative, while awaiting a As was natural, when he sought to steer a middle course between the Scylla of royalism and the Charybdis of Jacobinism, disturbances were to be expected on both sides of the consular By the Milan Decree of the 17th of December 1807, he ordained that every As regards secular occupation, the present Mandaeans are goldsmiths, ironworkers, and house and A Boston vessel, the " Columbia " (Captain Robert Gray), opened trade with the north-west coast of America, and was the first American Some arrivals have been diverted to Manchester since the opening of the Manchester Young Nick's Head, the southern horn of the bay, was named from Nicholas Young, his It is notorious, however, on the coasts that a Malay gang on board a Curd soap and London grey mottled are prepared from kitchen or James Nicholson (1737-1804), an American naval officer, commander-in-chief of the navy from 1 777 until August 1781, when with his After two weeks he left, having received the blessing of Pope Adrian VI., and proceeded by Padua to Venice, where he begged his bread and slept in the Piazza di San Marco until a rich Spaniard gave him shelter and obtained an order from the doge for a passage in a pilgrim A formal transfer to Japan was made in June of the same year in pursuance of the treaty, the ceremony taking place on board The Danes returned to the struggle with increased forces under the command of King Christian in person, but they were again defeated - their admiral being killed and his In the 10th tablet the goddess Sabitu, who, as guardian of the sea, first bolts her gate against Gilgamesh, after learning of his quest, helps him to pass in a When Theseus set out for Crete to deliver Athens from the tribute to the Minotaur he promised Aegeus that, if he were successful, he would change the black sail carried by his After the death of his parents he distributed his possessions among the poor, took dependent upon the seaman's observation of the heavens, for these charts were in use long before the compass had been introduced on board The British connexion with the Somali coast dates from the early years of the 19th century; the first treaty between the British and Somali having been signed in 18 2 7 after the plundering of an English Wesley's father died on April 2 5, 1 735, and in the following October John and Charles took In Strabo's time, (latter half of 1st century B.C.)