If we had met this nameless sailor we should have found him perhaps a very ordinary man, with plenty of failings, doubtless, like the rest of us, and without any idea that he had in him the priceless jewel beside which crowns and coronets are empty baubles.

I'm hoping that some day I fight under that gallant middy," cried the sailor.

I was once bringing from Leith an Austrian sailor who was charged with ripping open his mate, and as I considered that I had a disagreeable character to deal with, I handcuffed him.

"What are ye swingin' the yards fer, enyhow?" asked the sailor insolently.

I saw United States sailors, marines, soldiers, airmen, English officers, an' Scotch soldiers.

I knew sailors well enough to feel assured they would follow their leaders once the game started.

"I know all about all of them," replied the sailor boastfully.

He sang her the same song, and she married a sailor who carried her far away beyond the sea.

It loosed its torpedo defense batteries on bows, star-board, and port, and stood its ground as if more anxious to help the many sailors in the water than to save itself.

my heart shall be The faithful compass that still points to thee. 'Believe not what the landmen say, Who tempt with doubts thy constant mind: They'll tell thee sailors, when away, In every port a mistress find

The glorious Marine Anglaise will see that it reaches les Pays Bas, and then when it is of return your sailors so splendid, with sang-froid so perfect, will gobble it up.

At Exeter he found two sailors in gaol, having been fined one shilling each for some trifling offence, and owing £1 15s.

Mary loved the young sailor; but it was the old story of the penniless lover and cruel parent.

He then descended to the deck, leaving a sailor in the tops.

" After giving him a cigarette, Kit sent the sailor to tell the others and when the rurales came up offered them a share of the breakfast his men had cooked.

"Because there's another bloke here with a dark past, only this is t'other way about; he's a bumpkin turned sailor, Blenkinsop by name, you know, the Shropshire hackney breeders.

"You'll excuse an old sailor, sir; but I think that's more than mortal man can do.

" He called the sailors, and finding the two who had brought Brown to the factory, carried him downstairs and put him on board the boat.

When the storm was over, Pericles ordered the sailors to make for Tharsus.

The next morning after we had this talk, Harry, Althea, and I were sat idly on deck, basking in the sunshine, and drinking the sweet air, while we watched the sailors at work; when we saw Andrew come feebly towards us, at which we sprang up surprised, for he had not heretofore risen so early, because of his great weakness.

To-day, one of the blacks, whom they were forcing into the hold, suddenly knocked down a sailor, and attempted to leap overboard.

Their plan was to put a few goods of little value into old and shattered vessels, which they sank in the deep, taking up the sailors in boats prepared for the purpose, and then returning falsely the cargo as many times more valuable than it was.

For what purpose oppressions of this kind should be practised, it is not easy to conceive; for the officers are not at all rewarded for impressing sailors.

I have now in my hand a letter, by which the mayor and aldermen of Bristol are empowered to seize all the sailors within the bounds of their jurisdiction, which order was executed without any outcries of oppression, or apprehensions of the approach of slavery.

The Maoris then closed in and killed all the sailors immediately.