But five tall barks the vvinds and vvaters toſt / Far from their fellovvs, on th’Ægyptian coaſt.

Even after careful searching the Spanish did not find anything of value on Aruba. All there was were bare rocks, cactusses and divi-divi trees.

Mains are made smaller by reefing. This can be done by rolling up the sail around the boom, or by the more traditional method of tying down a panel along the foot.

When I have completed a manuscript, if I lay it away in a drawer or pigeon-hole, it lies there quietly enough, and my mind seems wholly discharged of it. But if I mail it, I straightaway find myself tormented with staircase wit in the shape of emendations.