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

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.

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.