78 examples of supercargo in sentences

It would have been a nice piece of business, if your supercargo had not been an honest man.

Your ship carrying that consignment, had Jason Hill as supercargo, and Ned Aiken, that damned parasite of yours, as master.

It was the kindness of this good man that not only found a place for Barnaby in the counting-house, but advanced him so fast that, against our hero was twenty-one years old, he had made four voyages as supercargo to the West Indies in Mr. Hartright's ship, the Belle Helen, and soon after he was twenty-one undertook a fifth.

Some of the hands, as well as the supercargo, have been bowled over by fire-water.

Danglars, the supercargo of the Pharaon, wanted the command for himself, and Fernand, the Catalan cousin of Mercédès, hated Dantès because he had won her heart.

"I suppose you came along as supercargo; pray tell me with what are you freighted?" "The Sea-flower is my only freight, sir.

You are, so to say, a land-sailor, a supercargo left on shore.

I am supercargo for the owners.

Trego is supercargo in charge of the ship and" Riggs stopped suddenly when he realized that he had told us the secret which Trego wished kept from us.

I began to realize that perhaps being a prisoner was the safest for me while on the steamer, for if Meeker had brought about the death of Trego because the supercargo suspected him, why should he not attempt to kill me after what I had said about him to Captain Riggs?

Armstrong, of that place, a captain and supercargo of boats descending the Mississippi river: "At Bayou Sarah, I saw a slave staked out, with his face to the ground, and whipped with a large whip, which laid open the flesh for about two and a half inches every stroke.

Mr. A. who has been for some years employed as captain and supercargo of boats descending the river, was at Grand Gulf at the time of the tragedy, and witnessed it.

Can you give me a cast across this bit of a ferry, sir?" "Are you alone, Billor who have you for companions?" "There's two on us, sir, onlyJim Wattles and Iseven on us was saved in the launch; Mr. Hillson and the supercargo both dying afore we reached the land, as did the other man, we seven still living, though only two on us is here.

I hastily turned towards the principal scene of disaster, and addressed myself to one of the survivors, whom I found to be the supercargo.

The supercargo, in the confusion which took place, could not get into the long boat in time, and remained with the rest of the crew on board; several of the seamen were washed off the decks and dashed against the rocks, and my narrator and three others were all that survived "to tell the tale.

All distinctions were now at an end; the better sort of farmer or shopkeeper, scrambled with the pauper for a cup or cap (or shoe) full of the mellow liquid; while the supercargo and his men, aided by myself and a few others, were occupied in hastily putting into some carts the more valuable articles rescued from plunder.

I sat with the supercargo for about an hour, watching the flow of the tide.

SEE Opdycke, John B. Supercargo.

SEE White, Leonard D. WHITEHORNE, EARL. Supercargo.

In addition to her eight or ten kanaka seamen, her white captain, mate, and supercargo, and her six cabin passengers, she sailed from Rangiroa with something like eighty-five deck passengersPaumotans and Tahitians, men, women, and children each with a trade box, to say nothing of sleeping-mats, blankets, and clothes-bundles.

On that night, the mate, the supercargo, the Polish Jew, and four native divers sneaked away in the large whale-boat.

I should to-day be a supercargo, a recruiter, or a memory, if it had not been for him.

In view of the possibilityremote, I trustof the machine refusing to go, I have devoted a little time to statics, and therefore feel that I shall be something more than a supercargo.

"They waz counterfeits got up by them Dutch supercargo sharps for dealin' with the Injins and cannibals and South Sea heathens ez bows down to wood and stone.

The supercargo who was on the vessel, and who understood as little of the language as I myself, could not, in his truly English narrow-mindedness, narrate to me enough of what a ridiculous race they were, nearly all pure Mohammedans collected from every land of Asia, from the limits of China to the Arabian Sea, there being even some jet-black, woolly-haired Africans among them.

78 examples of  supercargo  in sentences