The anchor saved the ship when she had dragged her other anchors among the coral-reefs of the Sandwich Islands.
The mast was broken in a squall off the Cape of Good Hope; it was all in one piece; it is much stronger since it has consisted of two pieces.
The gun is the only one which was not dismounted in the fight of the Chesapeake.
The news on board is most interesting: they have just heaved the log; the ship is making ten knots.
The sky is clear at mid-day: they have taken the altitude; we are at latitude so-and-so.
We have taken our reckoning: we have made so many miles in our course.
The variation of the compass is so many degrees: we have gone up north.
The sand is running badly through the hour-glass: we shall have rain.
They have seen stormy petrels in the wake of the vessel: we must look out for a squall.
Flying-fish have been showing in the south: the weather will settle down.