When the arm is fully extended, the tension causes it to tremble and so destroys the aim, and the man who cannot hit the mark without sighting along the barrel is usually dead before he can pull the trigger.'

All steamers arriving at Danish ports reported sighting floating bodies and bits of wreckage.

Here we left the baidarkas and crossed a large meadow without sighting bear.

After sighting the game, he waits until he is sure of his wind, then takes a stand where the bear will pass close by, and shows himself a monument of patience.

On our return to Kadiak Island, we found the streams still free of salmon, and the vegetation had become so rank as to interfere a good deal with traveling and sighting game.

They were four hundred miles northwest of the last mile of track laid on the Hudson Bay Railroad, deep in a wilderness, over which they had traveled for hours without sighting a single sign of white man's habitation.

Sighting our two Bird boys, of course Puss had known who they were.

" With this question of New Guinea and New Holland in view, he again made to the west, sighting the Barrier again on 15th August, and on the following morning, the wind having changed in the night, the breakers were heard very distinctly.

They then cruised about for three days as near the spot as the weather would permit, and then, following Tasman's track, as Cook had surmised, made for New Zealand, sighting Van Diemen's Land on 9th March, near Tasman's South Cape.

He therefore stood for the western entrance of Magellan's Straits, sighting Cape Descada on 17th December, following the coast round to Christmas Sound, which they reached on the 20th, the country passed being described as "the most desolate and barren I ever saw."

They were blown off the land near Table Cape in the beginning of November 1773, again sighting it near Cape Pallisser, only to be blown off again, their sails and rigging suffering severely.

The old Arab made the motion of sighting along a rifle, then of brushing something over, and tapped himself on the chest.

With growing difficulty, he managed to climb from rock to rock, in hopes of doubling the promontory and sighting the coasts beyond, but the water kept encroaching more and more on his track.

He was coming to me, across the ocean, and I could smile as I thought of how this thing and that would strike him, and of the smile that would light up his face now and the look of joy that would come into his eyes at the sudden sighting of some beautiful spot.

If a correction came for one gun that showed there had been a mistake in sighting after the last ordersif, that is, the gunners, and not the distant observers, were plainly at faultthere would be a good-natured outburst of chaffing from all the others.

Then came the swift sighting of the gun, the almost inperceptible corrections of elevation and position.

Capt. Asbury was sitting by one of the front windows, smoking his briarwood, and looking nowhere in particular, when he saw a man kneeling on top of the ridge and carefully sighting his gun at him.

Instead of jogging along the coast, as many had been accustomed to do, and casting anchor here and there upon sighting signal smokes raised by natives who had slaves to sell, the separate traders began before the close of the colonial period to get their slaves from white factors at the "castles," which were then a relic from the company régime.

We get a base-line in organization, always; then we get an angle by sighting some distant object to which the passions or aspirations of the subject of our observation are tending; then another:and so we construct our first triangle.

The business of sighting guns was not very well understood by the great mass of Christians, half a century since; and it is not at all surprising that savages should know little or nothing about it.

The Gauls, sighting the A.P.M. brassard, promptly dumped the hut and dived through a wire fence.

Kermit went first in his little canoe with the sighting-rod, on which two disks, one red and one white, were placed a metre apart.

He selected a place which commanded as long vistas as possible up-stream and down, and which therefore might be at the angle of a bend; landed; cut away the branches which obstructed the view; and set up the sighting-poleincidentally encountering maribundi wasps and swarms of biting and stinging ants.

It was nearly noon of a spring day, and we had halted on sighting our destination,Comanche Ford on the Concho River.

We had been riding hard for an hour across a tableland known as Cibollo Mesa, and now for the first time had halted at sighting our destination, yet distant three hours' hard riding.