When they arrived they found the Tara dressed in flags, from truck to deck; Lady Nora stood on the platform of the boarding-stairs, and the crew were mustered amidships.

A veteran eighteen-pounder crew in action is a poem in precision and speed of movement.

Tape himself is ready to swear that the crew are conscientious slavers.

In!" This was a language to which the crew of the "Caroline" were no strangers, and one which was doubly welcome; since the meanest seaman of them all had long thought that his unknown Commander had been heedlessly trifling with the safety of the vessel, by the hardy manner in which he disregarded the wild symptoms of the weather.

And I still think, as I did that night, that a ship's crew, sailors, officers, and captain, are brave, brave folk,the bravest Folks I know.

For a year the crews had been prisoners of that readiness which must not lose a minute in putting to sea if von Tirpitz should ever try the desperate gamble of battle.

The crew are chiefly Breton; it saves gossip; but I have a boat's crew of our own English folk here, stout fellows, ready for anything by land or sea.

Juan Bono replied, that his crew were good and peaceful people, who had come to live with the Indians; upon which, as the commencement of good fellowship, the natives offered to build houses for the Spaniards.

The Resolution sailed on 12th July, the crew looking on it as a lucky day, being the anniversary of the day they had sailed on the last voyage; but as Clerke had not yet arrived, the Discovery remained behind.

[Footnote 1: Crew was Bishop of Durham.

If, gentlemen, said he, you deem with me, that the crew of the Panda, (supposing her to have robbed the Mexican,) were merely servants of the captain, you cannot convict them.

"My crew are all Russians and I don't want any of your" He stopped; shifting lights played ominously in his gaze; a few dissatisfied lines on his face deepened.

" "But your ship is an English craft, and your crew are Englishmen?"

The entire crew are Sangoans.

The crew was a single old negress, whose head was wound about with a blue Madras handkerchief, and who stood at the prow, and by a singular rotary motion, rowed the barge with a teaspoon.

One o' the crew was fond o' that baby.

He, however, brought back with him three turtles weighing about 800 pounds, which were most welcome as the crew had now been some months without fresh meat; a second trip to where these were caught resulted in getting three or four more, and a large supply of shell-fish.

Her crew were volunteers, many of them being men who had sailed with Stephen Craddock beforethe mate, Joshua Hird, an old slaver, had been his accomplice in many voyages, and came now at the bidding of his chief.

He saw now clearly that the sole crew of the vessel was these two dead men, and though he could not see their faces, he saw by their outstretched hands, which were all of ragged flesh, that they had been subjected to some strange exceptional process of decay.

The Chinese denied that any flag was flying at the time of the capture: the British ownership of the vessel, they maintained, was never more than colourable, and had expired a month before: the crew were all their own subjects, apprehended on a charge of piracy.

But the Oriel crew were mostly old oars, seasoned in many a race, and one or two in the St. Ambrose boat were getting "stale.

Outside the captain and myself, the crew of The Waif, together with the six men that were with the Professor's party, were all natives, and I wondered as I watched the shadow why one should be crawling around as if afraid of being seen.

A prize had been offered for the first man who detected a crocodile, and the crew had now been two days on the alert in search of them.

But the various-clad crew of this cranky craft were gentlemen all, who, beyond running up the string-tied sail to the clothes-prop mast, or taking a trick at the wheelanother clothes-prop with a large disc of wood at the water-end, were far above work.

The crew were chiefly Spaniards, with a few Portuguese, South Americans, and half castes.