It has three good harbours on its coast; the largest and best of which is called by the people living in its vicinity 'Taiohae', and by Captain Porter was denominated Massachusetts
Bay.
After a deal of work among the Greek fishermen of the Upper
Bay and rivers, where knives flashed at the beginning of trouble and men permitted themselves to be made prisoners only after a revolver was thrust in their faces, we hailed with delight an expedition to the Lower
Bay against the Chinese shrimp-catchers.
SANDHEADS LIGHT -Green triple vertical marks new private landing-stage for
Bay and Burma traffic only.
They all returned, therefore, to Baker's
Bay in no very good humor.
These latter circumstances were observed in the
Bay of Valparaiso during the earthquake of 1822; they may, I think, be accounted for, by the disturbance of the mud at the bottom of the sea containing organic matter in decay.
These they were waiting to traffic with a resident trader of the Hudson's
Bay Company, who was stationed among them, and with whom they were accustomed to deal.
Then Harmon Gow suggested that Ethan Frome's
bay was still on his legs and that his owner might be glad to drive me over.
As to the seas, they runs more in uppers in the
Bay of Biscay, unless it may be in a sow-wester, when they tumble about quite handsomely; thof it’s not in the narrow sea that you are to look for a swell; just go off the Western Islands, in a westerly blow, keeping the land on your larboard hand, with the ship’s head to the south’ard, and bring to, under a close-reefed topsail; or, mayhap, a reefed foresail, with a fore-topmast-staysail and mizzen staysail to keep her up to the sea, if she will bear it; and ay there for the matter of two watches, if you want to see mountains.
He would make the valley and the
bay his headquarters.
And the winds of adventure blew the oyster pirate sloops up and down San Francisco
Bay, from raided oyster-beds and fights at night on shoal and flat, to markets in the morning against city wharves, where peddlers and saloon-keepers came down to buy.
A pretty notion truly," replied the papers in the interest of Florida, "that of Galveston
bayFrom the deck of our schooner, anchored in the middle of the
bay, he indicated by a theatrical sweep of his arm along the jagged outline of the hills the whole of his domain; and the ample movement seemed to drive back its limits, augmenting it suddenly into something so immense and vague that for a moment it appeared to be bounded only by the sky.
