They had sailed from Uleai (Uliai, 7° 20' N., 143°57' E. Gr.) in five boats, each of which had a crew of nine men and carried forty gourds full of water, with coconuts and batata.

Each Countryman ties a gourd around his ankle, wraps his blanket round him, and lies down.

At last Sindbad took a gourd, hollowed it out, filled it with grape juice, stopped the mouth, and set it in the sun.

Then the ruler of the earth made up his mind to throw away the gourd,when he heard (proceeding) from the sky a speech (uttered) in a grave and solemn voice, "O king!

Amongst herbs to be eaten I find gourds, cucumbers, coleworts, melons, disallowed, but especially cabbage.

But the cup-bearers knew Miss Penelope quite as well as she knew them, and when they came back with the fatty gourd they waited, as a matter of course, till she gave each one of them a generous handful of the sugar, before handing the gourd to David.

GAITHER, FRANCES. Follow the drinking gourd.

But he suffered so much that one of our soldiers felt sorry for him and offered him his water-gourd.

Taking with him a long bag, he entered the water, until nothing was seen but the gourd on his head.

Some parents are cautious enough to fasten hollow gourds, or bladders filled with air, on their children's backs, until they are six years old, so as to prevent them sinking so quickly, if they should happen to tumble into the water.

" She called all the small cup-bearers,for some unknown reason she never called one or two without calling all,and sent them running to the smoke-house to fetch the fatty gourd.

I was informed by certain credible persons, that in the mountains of Kapsei, in the kingdom of Kalor, which is in the dominions of the great khan, there grow certain gourds, or pompions, which open when ripe, and a little beast is found within them, resembling a young lamb.

On one side of the low door hung a long-handled gourd; on the other side, a coon-skin was nailed to the logs, the blue smoke curled up from the top of the stick-and-clay chimney.

Their bitter anthelminthic oil is said to have medicinal uses; but it will be still more useful for machinery, as it haslike that curious flat gourd the Sequa {266a}the property of keeping iron from rust.

But Jaia, who often visited the mortal remains of his son, arrived when the brothers held the gourd in their hands.

But as the dawn appeared the next day God prepared a worm and it injured the gourd, so that it withered.

It happened one day that I passed a tree under which lay several dry gourds, and catching one up I amused myself with scooping out its contents and pressing into it the juice of several bunches of grapes which hung from every bush.

Without a word she approached the sufferer, loosened a gourd from her girdle, and raised it gently to the parched lips of the miserable man.

The cacique Manicatex, who had headed the great insurrection, was condemned to pay monthly half a gourd, or calabash full of gold, which was worth 150 pieces of eight.

" The soldier placed his gourd in his hands, and the prisoner drank the water handed to him by a man with whom he had just exchanged bullets.

And Jehovah God prepared a gourd, and made it to come up over Jonah, that it might be a shade over his head.

The medicine men sing, beat the drum, rattle the gourd, and use such other instruments as they contrive.

Every third girl now received a large empty gourd, a grooved board, and the dry shoulder-bone of a sheep.

They remove the gourds from Countrymen's ankles and hide them under their blankets.

We have elsewhere related that the natives cultivate a tree in their gardens, whose fruit resembles a large gourd.