Indeed, at the very time an English brig of war was searching about for this port, and seeking an interview with the Sheikh of Wadnoun on the coast, Davidson was murdered on the southern frontier just as he was penetrating the Sahara.

He threw out several hints consarning sealing-grounds aboard the brig in which he came home; and you needn't be told, Gar'ner, that a hint of that kind is sartain to find its way through all the ports down east.

It was on the 19th of September, 1809, that Byron sailed in the Spider brig from Malta for Prevesa, and on the morning of the fourth day after, he first saw the mountains of Greece; next day he landed at Patras, and walked for some time among the currant grounds between the town and the shore.

Mavrocordatos on entering Mesolonghi lost no time in inviting the poet to join him, and placed a brig at his disposal, adding, "I need not tell you to what a pitch your presence is desired by everybody, or what a prosperous direction it will give to all our affairs.

It consisted principally of sayings of Daggett, uttered during his homeward-bound passage, and transmitted by the master of the brig to him of the sloop in the course of conferences that wore away a long summer's afternoon, as the two vessels lay becalmed within a hundred fathoms of each other.

Ill-luck may follow that brig on account of his death!" "Ill-luck follow her, say I, till she lays her bones on some rock that is harder than the heart of her padrone.

You equipped your own brig with a letter of marque, and sailed it yourself off Jamaica.

"I'd know your father's brig among a thousand" As he spoke, the two masses of ice closed, and the brig was nipped between them.

I should have been half way to Stirling brig by this timeGive me my dirk, and let me go.

"My uncle talked a good deal aboard of that brig about other matters besides sealing.

We reached the cascade by four o'clock and remained there until our boats arrived for a second cargo of water, which was at midnight; as soon as the casks were filled, we set off on our return, but did not reach the brig until eight o'clock in the morning.

It was not yet decided whether we should continue our voyage to the Amur River, or remain in Petropavlovsk and begin our northern journey from there, so we still regarded the brig as our home and returned, every night to our little cabin.

I wish you joy, sir, in having got the two new brigs into the water.

What we've got to do is to step around lively, and get the gold out of this brig before the wind changes and drives her out into deep water.