Do we say onboard or on board

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I want you two fellows to look out for a Dutchman named "FRITZ," who is onboard.

Can you, without any evidence, say that Drayton enticed them, and that by no other means could they come onboard?

While in the Gulf of Cambaya, in a dead calm, the ships were tossed about in so violent a manner that all onboard believed themselves in imminent danger of perishing, and began to consider how they might escape.

Arrived onboard at 2 this afternoon, with an intention of sailing to Philadelphia: Gravesend is so called from it's being the end of a sailors grave, as those who die on a voyage after passing the fort are thrown over board.

Had any thick weather sprung up, I had been left another way; for having no compass onboard, I should never have found the way to steer towards the island, if once it had disappeared; but it proving the contrary, I set up my mast again, spread my sail, and stood away northward, as much as I could, to get rid of the current.

Being about 100 leagues from the nearest land, a swallow came on board the ship, driven out to sea as was believed by a storm; and this was the more probable as a great many more swallows and other land birds came onboard next day, the twenty-eighth February, and a whale was seen.

After a satisfactory pause, during which I had gradually collected my ideas, I inquired, suddenly: "How long is it since we were lifted from the raft, and where are the other survivors?" "All safe, I believe, and onboard, well cared for, like yourself.

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I shall hold Divine service on board to-morrow.

The facts which seemed to be relied upon by the District Attorney as establishing the alleged larceny werethat I had come to Washington, and staid from Monday to Saturday, without any ostensible business, when I had sailed away with seventy-six slaves on board, concealed under the hatches, and the hatches battened down; and that when pursued and overtaken the slaves were found on board with provisions enough for a month.

Princes, five in number, arrived on board yesterday at about 3 P.M. Among them was the Lord High Admiral, a very intelligent well-bred man.

I left the next day and went on board the ship with Friday.

From the hour when the steamer St. Paul left New York, carrying probably the most mixed assortment of passengers that traveled on a single ship since Noah sailed the Ark, we on board expected hourly to sight something that would make us spectators of actual hostilities.

From an incidental expression we conjecture that he visited his aunt in Egypt when her husband was Prefect of that country, and that he shared with her the dangers of shipwreck when her husband had died on board ship during the homeward voyage.

Yet all the "swells" on board had been duly accounted for and recognized.

My travelling companion, Count Berchthold, accompanied me; and, on the 26th September, we took two places on board one of the numerous barks which sail regularly every day for the Porto d'Estrella, (a distance of twenty or twenty-two nautical miles), from which place the journey is continued by land.

I took leave of my friends and went on board in the evening; Count Berchthold and Messrs. Geiger and Rister accompanying me to the ship.

At last the ship was wrecked, all on board being cast ashore upon an island, whither they had been carried, clinging to boards and broken pieces of the ship.

In the heat of the fight the native merchants went on board the pirates to try and ransom themselves, and were accompanied by half the lascars who deserted their commander; only the Europeans and seventeen lascars remained to fight the ship.

"Heave-to, and send your boat on board.

While endeavouring to ascertain the country of the ship, by examining her people, the governor fancied he saw some natives on board her.

Captain Betts had taken his leave of the governor, and had actually got on board his own vessel, in order to make sail, when, a signal was seen flying on board one of the boats that was kept cruising well out in the straits, intimating that strange vessels were seen to windward.

By the next night we had got all the cargo on board, and were to sail by the next morning, and I lowered myself down and swam ashore.

" It is needless to say that the call was unanswered; and then all on board began to understand the mode of escape.

"Come on, Sam," shouted Jack, as the boys lugged the two dripping, sputtering castaways on board.

At the same time the noise and confusion on the beach was so great, that the officer in charge of the party prepared to return on board at once, in order to avoid any collision with the natives.

" With one silent gesture of farewell he turned and stepped on board the boat.

It took the most of two days to get the people on board, and when they were counted up there were one thousand four hundred and forty, all told.

The truth is, that when Martin Alonzo forsook the admiral at Cuba, he went purposely away with the design of sailing to Bohio, where he learned from the Indians on board his caravel that plenty of gold was to be found.

As soon as he was seated the brother gave notice to the cacique, who came presently, and hung a large plate of gold about the admirals neck, apparently with much satisfaction, and stayed with him till it grew late, when the admiral went on board the caravel as usual to sleep.

A third worthy, whilst trading in the Bay of Islands, missed some articles on board his schooner.

The circular represented a 7000-ton steamer ready to take on board the cargo of ammunition which was arranged neatly on the pier in the foreground.

"There are some on board the ship, who maintain that the man in question is taller than the big tide-waiter at Plymouth, with a pair of shoulders" "I have reason to know they are mistaken.

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