...). During thirty years of that period, 401 cargoes brought between 60,797 and 62,726 Negroes of all ages into the ports of Charleston, Georgetown, and Beaufort. The co­ lonial government collected a total of <£551,920/10 currency (£78,845/15 sterling) on these cargoes of slaves from African ports.13 Blacks...

... the double purpose of cruising about Chesapeake Bay for the protection of its shores, and making occa­ sional voyages to Havana to exchange cargoes of flour for military supplies and clothing for the soldiers. This story of their brief career in the Bay is pieced together from the correspondence of the State...

.... vol. 18, p. 398. 6 Ibid., vol. 15, p. 782; June 2, 1862. 0 Ibid., ser. IV, vol. 2, p. 30. 7 Schuckers, J. W., S. P. Chase, p. 322. High Prices and the Blockade 157 of 1918. They were so large, indeed, that if three cargoes went through safely the ship owners could well afford, on the next trip...

... in the north and the Cape of Good Hope in the south for one thousand years. No subject of the crown, other than the company, was to visit Africa except with the company s permission, and the company was authorized to seize ships and cargo infringing its monopoly. The monopoly was not effective. The company...

... States Government, which had intervened. Mr. Semmes contended that instantly upon a declaration of war, the property of the enemy becomes liable to seizure and con­ demnation. This liability to confiscation adheres to the ship and cargo, enduring not only until the arrival in port, but up to the moment...

... of the Piscataqua River, apparently after an apprenticeship in the Newfoundland fisheries. Fairchild surmises that his first venture on his own was a voyage to Newfoundland in a small sloop laden with an unromantic cargo of Connecticut pork, pine boards, and a hogshead or two of rum. A shrewd father-in-law...

... from Rio to Baltimore with a cargo of coffee. The prize crew had hardly gone aboard before Lieutenant C. W. Read', one of the youngest of Maffitt s subordinates, handed his commander a written proposal whereby the Clarence would be saved from the flames that had consumed most of the previous victims...

... 27 and August 16, 1861, the blockade was extended and made more stringent. All vessels and cargoes belonging to citizens of the Southern States found at sea or in a port of the United States were to be confiscated.t As the summer advanced the blockade was made more and more effective until finally...

... Palmerston insisted that Turkey must reform rather than go to war. Even the attempt of Urquhart to provoke war by sending the brig Vixen with a contraband cargo to defy the Russian blockade of the Caucasus coast failed. Although a Russian warship seized the Vixen, alleging that it carried gunpowder rather...

... travel as an explicit meta­ phor for poetry, as we can see from the opening of Nemean 5: I am no sculptor, fashioning statues to stand motionless, fixed to the same base. No, on every merchant ship, on every boat I bid my song go forth from Aegina. 40 Not static like a statue, Pindar s poetic cargo...

... data which this slender opus contains are probably its chief contribution. The most successful London play to be transported to New York was White Cargo; the most popular New York play in London was Peg o My Heart. Abie s Irish Rose had a London run of 128 performances; Craig s Wife, 10; Strange...

... to the incident, speculation (inconclusive) as to its authorship, biographical details of each survivor as far as sparse and scattered records reveal them to name only part of the cargo of minutiae the author has brought safely to port. He has kept a sharp weather eye open and seized upon whatever ephemera he...

... contained in this book deal with mercantile affairs: invoices, cargo lists, bills of exchange, insurance rates, and sailing dates. By 1775, when the editors bring Volume I to a close, Laurens, at age thirty-three, was already one of the leaders of the Charleston business community. Still ahead of him lay...

... On the ever-shifting tide, And she stood on the beach and watched them Far out on the ocean glide, Till their shadowy shrouds had mingled With the mists they sailed to meet, And the rainbow-tinted masses Received her fairy fleet. Her dearest hopes were their cargo, Her fancy furnished the chart, And to guide...

... commentary on Keats, in order to be fully perspicuous. Jones is sensitive, he works closely with his poetic texts, and he makes innumerable suggestive comparisons and allusions. His cargo, however, is clearly too weighty for the carriage he furnishes; John Keats s Dream of Truth is a book best taken a few...

... at the average price of cotton prevailing in that year. This valuable export trade was practically stopped during the corresponding months of 1914. By December 16, 1914, only two cargoes of cotton had sailed for Germany, and the first was reported as reaching Bremen about January 1, 1915. Despite the determi­...

.... There had already come to the place a number of ship captains with cargoes of miscellaneous goods. These men represented European busi­ ness houses, either as owners or as agents. They came into the Virginia rivers, traded with the inhabitants who were scattered at wide intervals along these rivers, till...

... reached American markets until the latter half of the nineteenth century. Much of the credit for making the banana a commonplace of the breakfast table belongs to three men: Captain Lorenzo Baker, who shipped some of the earliest cargoes of monkey food from Jamaica to Boston; Andrew Preston, a fruit...

... are probably its chief contribution. The most successful London play to be transported to New York was White Cargo; the most popular New York play in London was Peg o My Heart. Abie s Irish Rose had a London run of 128 performances; Craig s Wife, 10; Strange Interlude, 42; Marco Millions, 28; but Mourning...

.... The most successful London play to be transported to New York was White Cargo; the most popular New York play in London was Peg o My Heart. Abie s Irish Rose had a London run of 128 performances; Craig s Wife, 10; Strange Interlude, 42; Marco Millions, 28; but Mourning Becomes Electra, 106. Pygmalion...