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...ere some natives in war array; with blacked faces, turbans, tapa kilts, and guns, they looked very manly and purposelike. No, the best part was poor o... ... my cleared grass, and count myself an ally in a fair quarrel, and make stout my heart. It is but a little while since I lay sick in Sydney, beating t... ...atched the departure of successful guests. Sim- ply impossible to tell how well these blue-jackets behaved; a most interesting lot of men; this educat... ...ll went off like a rocket from the start. I had only time to watch Belle careering around with a gallant bluejacket of exactly her own height—the stan...

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...enced, they pushed off in boats and captured cod; and at last, launching a navy of great ships on the sea, explored this watery world; put an incessan... ...ica now outnumber all the rest of the banded whalemen in the world; sail a navy of upwards of seven hundred vessels; manned by eighteen thousand men; ... ...ing his quarter-deck with an elated grandeur not surpassed in any military navy; nay, extorting almost as much outward homage as if he wore the imperi... ...llages?—The blast! the blast! Up, spine, and meet it! (Leaps to his feet.) Portuguese sailor. How the sea rolls swashing ‘gainst the side! Stand by fo... ...ood authority, that on the Barbary coast, a Commodore Davis of the British navy found the skeleton of a sperm whale. Now, as a vessel of war readily p... ...ng quarto, written by one Cap- tain Colnett, a Post Captain in the English navy, entitled “A V oyage round Cape Horn into the South Seas, for the pur-... ...y belongs to it. The first boat we read of, floated on an ocean, that with Portuguese vengeance had whelmed a whole world without leaving so much as a... ...and abominable, devilish re- bellion against the reverend clergy. For by a Portuguese Catho- lic priest, this very idea of Jonah’s going to Nineveh vi...

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...enced, they pushed off in boats and captured cod; and at last, launching a navy of great ships on the sea, explored this watery world; put an incessan... ...ica now outnumber all the rest of the banded whalemen in the world; sail a navy of upwards of seven hundred vessels; manned by eighteen thousand men; ... ...ing his quarter deck with an elated grandeur not surpassed in any military navy; nay, extorting almost as much outward homage as if he wore the imperi... ...ages? — The blast! the blast! Up, spine, and meet it! (Leaps to his feet.) Portuguese sailor. How the sea rolls swashing ’gainst the side! Stand by fo... ...od authority, that on the Barbary coast, a Commander Davies of the British navy found the skeleton of a sperm whale. Now, as a vessel of war readily p... ...sing quarto, written by one Captain Colnett, a Post Captain in the English navy, entitled “A V oyage round Cape Horn into the South Seas, for the purp... ...lly belongs to it. The first boat we read of, floated on an ocean, that with Portuguese vengeance had whelmed a whole world without leaving so much as a... ..., and abominable, devilish rebellion against the reverend clergy. For by a Portuguese Catholic priest, this very idea of Jonah’s going to Nineveh via ...

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... brother, the Chevalier de Luynes, who served with much distinction in the navy , and together they arranged the matter. They seized an opportunity wh... ...ich are still felt by the State. Pontchartrain, Secretary of State for the Navy, was the plague of it, as of all those who were under his cruel depend... ...ade the best of his way to Madrid. That city was itself in danger from the Portuguese, and, indeed, fell into their hands soon after. The Queen, who, ... ...with the army of Berwick, and both set to work to reconquer the places the Portuguese had taken from them. In this they were success- ful. The Portugu... ...ad been conducted to the King by Pontchartrain, who had the affairs of the navy under his control. The courier sent by T esse, who commanded the land ... ...tripped him with the news. He declared that the news did not belong to the navy, and consequently Pontchartrain had no right to carry it to the King. ... ...airs, and to supply their place by councils; also, that the offices of the navy should be managed by a council. I insisted upon the distinct and perfe...

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...-presence of malice in the agent; but others, as appeared from my father’s Portuguese recollections, ascribing the same horrid power to the eye of cer... ...by way of anticipation; else he was too young at this time to serve in the navy. Afterwards he did so for many years, and saw every variety of service... ... and saw every variety of service in every class of ships belonging to our navy. At one time, when yet a boy, he was captured by pirates, and compelle... ...ands; and they were given (perhaps are 12 given?) to post captains in the navy. Captain Skinner was celebrated for his convivial talents; he did the ... ...nd, and without one particle of interest, my brother passed into the royal navy. His nautical accomplishments were now of the utmost importance to him...

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...nose and rather thin, dark hair, done in a fashion which, like that of her navy blue linen dress, looked perfectly antiquated 48 The Two Sides of the... ...dings and investiga- tions into the creatures at the bottom of the sea, of Portuguese men-of-war, and albatrosses; and there were some orders to scien... ... been telling, so that it was not easy to believe in Sam, a captain in the navy. Harry and John farming in Canada, David working as a clergy- man in t...

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...t enter the service?” “Want of an income, my lady.” “Bad look-out. Army or Navy for gentlemen, if they stick to the school of honour. The sedentary pr... ..., French, English, Ameri- cans, Italians, if they will come; Spaniards and Portuguese, and Scandinavians, Russians as well. And Jews; Mahommedans too,... ...hing comes easier to them: a plaguey cut, if it does cut— say, one in six. Navy too. Their cutlass-drill is like a woman’s fling of the arm to fetch a...

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..., from all the follies of his country and of his age, one of the most elegant and expensive, — he be- came a tulip-fancier. It was the time when the D... ..., embroidered with silver; who, with a cer- tain aristocratic slowness, ascended the white stone steps of the house. In his wake followed two officers...

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...thing which corresponds to the French system of maritime conscription; the navy, as well as the merchant service, is supplied by voluntary service. Bu... ...ls, but they cannot refuse a willing subsidy to defray the expenses of the navy; for if the fleets of Europe were to blockade the ports of the South a... ...reat colonies which were founded in South America by the Spaniards and the Portuguese have since become em- pires. Civil war and oppression now lay wa... ...constitute flourishing and enlightened nations. But when the Spaniards and Portuguese of South America begin to feel the wants common to all civilized... ...ers, the English, occupy with regard to the Ital- ians, the Spaniards, the Portuguese, and all those nations of Europe which receive their articles of... ... Use shall be for a longer T erm than two years; To provide and maintain a Navy; T o make Rules for the Government and Regulation of the land and nava... ...tes.” Section 2. The President shall be Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and of the Militia of the several States, when c...

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...ery and romance of its past—and the race of men who had fought against the Portuguese, the Spaniards, the Dutch and the English, has not been changed ... ...ld days. My grandfather was a preacher and, though my father served in the navy, I don’t 23 Joseph Conrad hold with war. Sinful the old gentleman cal...

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...de one Aratus admiral; ’tis true, but withal, Lysander went general of the navy; and, by the same subtlety, one of their ambassadors being sent to the... ...on of an extreme revenge; as will appear by this: that having observed the Portuguese, who were in league with their enemies, to inflict another sort ... ...rity, even to this day, which is a hundred years 329 Montaigne since, few Portuguese can yet rely; though custom and length of time are much more pow...

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... a foreign tongue. I can’t make her out. She ought to marry an Armenian or a Portuguese.” “That’s just what I’m afraid she’ll do!” cried Lilian, who t... ...them; it certainly isn’t the greatest. I came into the world in the Brooklyn navy yard. My father was a high officer in the United States Navy, and ha...

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...ntry, and aided by a storm occasioned the loss of nearly the whole English navy. There was but one man of note, at this miser able pass, who was true... ...were rigid, he was impartial too, in asserting the laws of England. When a Portuguese nobleman, the brother of the Portu guese ambassador, killed a L... ...healthy. The King of France was now in alliance with the Dutch, though his navy was chiefly employed in looking on while the English and Dutch fought....

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... foreign tongue. I can’t make her out. She ought to marry an Armenian or a Portuguese.” “That’s just what I’m afraid she’ll do!” cried Lilian, who tho... ...; it certainly isn’t the great- est. I came into the world in the Brooklyn navy-yard. My father was a high officer in the United States Navy, and had ...

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... sang in all languages—except their own. German, French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Swiss; but nothing native; nothing so low as native. For, in th... ...wit society, and by the gallant defenders of their country in the army and navy, but particularly the former. The least of their stories had a colonel...

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...ash his wife and daughters with a cartwhip. DOLLY (contemptuously). Yes, a Portuguese! PHILIP . When you come to men who are brutes, there is much in ... .... When you come to men who are brutes, there is much in common between the Portuguese and the English variety, Doll. T rust my knowledge of human natu... ...a business inher- ited from an old family in the aristocracy of trade. His navy blue coat is not of the usual fashionable pattern. It is not exactly a... ...landon, what is the established religion in Madeira? GLORIA. I suppose the Portuguese religion. I never inquired. DOLLY. The servants come in Lent and...

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...egrees of preferment in both. By the rules of precedency, a captain in the navy ranks with a colonel in the army; but he does not rank with him in the... ...ere never was any demand before. The greater part, too, of the Spanish and Portuguese colonies, are altogether new markets. New Granada, the Yucatan, ... ...menting in a still greater proportion. During the sixteenth cen- tury, the Portuguese were the only European nation who carried on any regular trade t... ...utch continually augmenting in a still greater proportion than that of the Portuguese declined. The English and French carried on some trade with Indi... ...e officers both of justice and war who serve under him, the whole army and navy, are unproductive labourers. They are the servants of the public, and ... ...stry. The capital which sends British goods to Por- tugal, and brings back Portuguese goods to Great Britain, replaces, by every such operation, only ... ...eplaces, by every such operation, only one British capital. The other is a Portuguese one. Though the returns, therefore, of the foreign trade of cons... ...lion of tons of shipping, or a thousand ships of a thousand tons each. The navy of England would not be sufficient. When the quantity of gold and silv... ...antity of paper money of some sort or other, too, such as exchequer notes, navy bills, and bank bills, in England, is generally issued upon such occas...

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... toward the dead man’s house. ‘First, the young chap’s to be sent into the Navy; then it’s the Army; then he’s to be a judge, and sit on criminals; th... ... his addresses as a brewer of distinction: thirdly, and for a climax, as a Portuguese Count: no other than the Senor Silva Diaz, Conde de Saldar: and ... ...man of him. He courteously declined. They then attacked the married Marine—Navy or Army being quite indifferent to them as long as they could win for ... ...ke a horse—absolutely! There’s no music in his smile. Oh! you should see a Portuguese nobleman smile. O mio Deus! honeyed, my dears! But Evan has it n... ...t we three, and done with ineffable grace. “Pardon!” he said, in his sweet Portuguese; “Pardon!” looking up—the handsomest man I ever beheld; and when... ...e care she did. In- stance me a case where I have failed? ‘Or there is the Portuguese widow, the Rostral. She’s thirty, certainly; but she possesses m... ...French with the wife of the Hon. Melville, a ringleted English lady, or of Portuguese with the Countess; who likewise sipped chocolate and fingered dr...

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...ez on reaching T ucuman found no Spaniards to mix with, but instead twelve Portuguese. Catalina remembered the Spanish proverb—‘Subtract from a Spania... ...m a Spaniard all his good qualities, and the remainder makes a pretty fair Portuguese;’ but, as there was nobody else to 122 Narrative and Miscellane... ...rt distance. The light-hearted young cavalier whistled, as he went, an old Portuguese ballad of romance; and in a quarter of an hour came up to an hou... ...e hour of vengeance had struck; and, step- ping hastily up, she tapped the Portuguese on the shoulder, saying —‘Senor, you are a robber!’ The Portugue... ... her sword through her opponent’s body; and without a groan or a sigh, the Portuguese cavalier fell dead at his own door. Kate searched the street wit... ...rned. 232 Narrative and Miscellaneous Papers heroic leader in the English navy; and that in our own times, Admiral Coffin, though an American by birt...

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...an Indian lord, so soon as he heard the first 35 Montaigne whisper of the Portuguese Viceroy’s determination to dis- possess him, without any apparen... ... manly but displeased counte- nance, set forth how much he had obliged the Portuguese nation, and with how unspotted fidelity he had carried him- self... ... Father Jove, Mars Gradivus, and the other angry gods.”—Livy, ii. 45.] The Portuguese say that in a certain place of their con- quest of the Indies, t... ... that great king- dom to the crown of Castile, was extremely sick when the Portuguese entered in an hostile manner into his domin- ions; and from that... ...in consuming the enemy, and in drawing them far from the assistance of the navy and the ports they had on the coast of Africa, even till the last day ... ...at battle. He arranged his bat- talions in a circular form, environing the Portuguese army on every side, which round circle coming to close in and to...

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.... .............................. 193 “THE NEW GUIDE OF THE CONVERSATION IN PORTUGUESE AND ENGLISH” ............................... 193 DIALOGUE 16 ...... ...hat they may? Satan. INTRODUCTION TO “THE NEW GUIDE OF THE CONVERSATION IN PORTUGUESE AND ENGLISH” by Pedro Carolino IN THIS WORLD OF UNCERTAINTIE... ...stinguished people along down. Each has his group of homage payers. In the navy, there are many groups; they start with the Secretary and the Admiral,...

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... and which consists of three circular islands, was first discovered by the Portuguese, and was visited afterward by the Dutch in 1643, and by the Fren... ... the twenty-seventh of January, 1820, Captain James Weddel, of the British navy, sailed from Staten Land also in search of the Auroras. He reports tha... ...the South Shetland islands. In 1822, Captain James Weddell, of the British navy, with two very small vessels, penetrated farther to the south than any...

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...arly two years; and the governor—an Englishman who had entered the Chilian navy—with a priest, half a dozen task masters, and a body of soldiers, we... ... world. A great many from the north of Europe, beside Frenchmen, Spaniards, Portuguese, Italians, men from all parts of the Mediterranean, together... ...try was to a new and rich farming region, the Napa Valley, the United States Navy Yard at Mare Island, the river gold workings, and the Geysers, and ... ...nvitation so far as to stop at Vallejo to breakfast. The United States Navy Yard, at Mare Island, near Vallejo, is large and well placed, with d... ...command of vessels in the Indian and Chinese seas, and was in our volunteer navy during the late war, commanding several large vessels in successio... ...joining the steamer or signing a parole of honor not to serve in the army or navy of the United States. Thank God no one accepted the former of these ...

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... these three years and a half on the African station.” “What, is he in the navy?” “Yes,” said the boy proudly, “Lieutenant Ernescliffe. He got his pro... ..., such as a sudden storm, and an encoun- ter with another slaver, when his Portuguese prisoners be- came mutinous, and nothing but his steadiness and ... ...t he doubted, but he was collecting his energies—”Then, papa, I choose the navy.” “Then it is done, Harry. You have chosen in a dutiful, un- selfish s... ...fered a nomination as naval cadet for his brother. He had replied that the navy was not Hector’s destination, but, as Captain Gordon had no one else i... ...o remain. Had it been possible to marry at once, he would have quitted the navy immediately; and he would have given worlds to linger beside Margaret’... ...ied Harry angrily. “There’s not a better captain to sail with in the whole navy, and your brother would be the first to tell you so! I’m not discharge...