effort of the crew sent the galley further from the land, the living train seemed to extend itself, by some secret principle of expansion; nor was the chain of its apparent connexion entirely broken, until the Bucentaur had passed the island, long famous for its convent of religious Arminians.

The whole party accordingly re-embarked on board their galleys, and pursued their way to Rome.

As you entered, the galley, with its litter of tumbled pots and dishes, was upon the right, and upon the left was a small room with two bunks for the officers.

In order to man the numerous galleys which she sent out, she necessarily employed large numbers of hired mariners and slaves at the oar; but the staple of her crews was Athenian, and all posts of command were held by native citizens.

XXIV.Antonius was at this time at Brundisium, and relying on the valour of his troops, covered about sixty of the long-boats belonging to the men-of-war with penthouses and bulwarks of hurdles, and put on board them select soldiers; and disposed them separately along the shore: and under the pretext of keeping the seamen in exercise, he ordered two three-banked galleys, which he had built at Brundisium, to row to the mouth of the port.

The Turks were compelled to row their galleys against this wind and the heavy sea it raised.

Antony began to levy troops, and collect and equip galleys and ships of war, and to make requisitions of money and military stores from all the eastern provinces and kingdoms.

Don John profited by the time to visit the different galleys and ascertain their condition.

But the first was to be seen from thy window?" "I saw the galley of state sweeping towards the Lido, and the train of patricians on its deck; but little else.

He seized the galleys, manning them with archers and country folk, and then hastened hotly on the track of the fugitives.

Here he was detained two days, and having added a few galleys to his fleet he went to Cilicia, and thence to Cyprus.

It was thrice twenty-four hours after his first bath, before Mark Woolston had sufficient strength to reach the galley and light a fire.

"The chances are unequal, Signore; for the smallest signal would bring twenty galleys to our succor.

And when the fire began to spread wider by the violence of the wind, the soldiers of the veteran legions, who had been left to guard the fleet, being considered as invalids, could not endure the disgrace, but of themselves went on board the ships and weighed anchor, and having attacked Cassius's fleet, captured two five-banked galleys, in one of which was Cassius himself; but he made his escape by taking to a boat.

Radzivilus was much taken with the pasha's palace in Cairo, and amongst many other objects which that place afforded, with that solemnity of cutting the banks of the Nile by Imbram Pasha, when it overflowed, besides two or three hundred gilded galleys on the water, he saw two millions of men gathered together on the land, with turbans as white as snow; and 'twas a goodly sight.

If Stefano keep the sea he may chance to meet the galleys of the Senate.

A lofty light-house was reared, which formed a landmark by day, and exhibited a blazing star by night to guide the galleys of the Mediterranean in.

Next comes the foremast, and between that and the fore hatch the galley and winch; on the port side of the fore hatch are stalls for four poniesa very stout wooden structure.

Captain Rheid had planned his house and was determined he said that the "women folks" should have room enough to move around in and be comfortable; he believed in having the "galley" as good a place to live in as the "cabin.

"Ave Maria, Gratia plena!" the women cried together, falling on their knees, while the men toiled and struggled to hold the invincible galley of the Ten outside the whirling path of the stormadvancing and retreating at the will of the elements, against which their own splendid, human strength was like the feeble, untaught effort of a helpless infant.

I am Aryan and Semite, Roman and Teuton: alike I have known the galley and the palm-set court of kings.

And now, caring no more for us or what might befall us, than for the Turks who lay all mangled on our deck, one cuts away the tackle that lashes their galley to us, while the rest haul up the sail, and so they go their way, leaving us to shift for ourselves.

With this purpose, he offered what he called the following good advice to his son-in-law:"My dear Allan, you have now wandered over the seas long enough; it is time you should have some footing upon land, a castle to protect yourself in winter, a village and cattle for your men, and a harbour to lay up your galleys.

These he designed to call off by a certain signal, when all the soldiers were embarked, and left row-galleys for them in a secure place.

Their ruined castles are lying "fifty fathom deep,"Carthaginian galley and Roman trireme, the argosy of Spain, the "White Ship" of Fitz Stephen, the "Ville de Paris," down to the latest "non-arrival" whispered at Lloyd's,all are gone out of sight into the forgotten silences of the green underworld.