The shipowner bribes the Amir al-Bahr, or port-captain, and the Nazir al-Safayn, or the captain commanding the government vessels, to rate his ship as high as possible; if he pay the price, he will be allowed nine ardebs to the ton. 28 The number of ships belonging to the port of Suez amounts to 92; they vary from 25 to 250 tons. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Nearly the same scene was acted over when Perez, the port-captain, came on board; and in a few minutes Captain Garçaŏ of the Liberal came to pay his respects, and shortly afterwards Captain Taylor of the Nitherohy, from whom we learned something more of the state of His Imperial Majesty's fleet. ❋ Maria Graham (N/A)
At the first Haytian port, Dauphin Bay, he meets the port-captain who cannot read his passport, the port-general who bows and sends him to the chef de police, the chef who asks for half ❋ Various (N/A)
The port-captain went into the little hutch of a cabin with a white face. ❋ Charles John Cutcliffe Wright Hyne (1905)
The port-captain was roving his eye over the group of us who stood on the after-deck. ❋ Charles John Cutcliffe Wright Hyne (1905)
"Oh, I saw Dason's head on your beak," said the port-captain. ❋ Charles John Cutcliffe Wright Hyne (1905)
But a small sop like this was no meal for Phorenice, and she gave the port-captain strict orders for the guarding of his prisoner before she left him. ❋ Charles John Cutcliffe Wright Hyne (1905)
For vessels thus stationed there is, generally, a sufficiency of waiting, for a port-captain is apt to be so uncertain of his own dignity, that he must e'en keep folks waiting to prove it to them. ❋ Charles John Cutcliffe Wright Hyne (1905)
That thief of a port-captain wellnigh skinned us clean before he could see it lawful that so many useful fighting men might go out of harbour. ❋ Charles John Cutcliffe Wright Hyne (1905)
The port-captain stared for a moment, as if unbelieving, and then, as though satisfied, made obeisance like a fellow well used to ceremonial. ❋ Charles John Cutcliffe Wright Hyne (1905)
Whilst we waited, Phorenice asked the port-captain (who must needs come up officiously to make his salutations) after the disposal of Nais, and was told that she had been clapped into a dungeon beneath the royal pyramid, and the officer of the guard there had given his bond for her safe-keeping. ❋ Charles John Cutcliffe Wright Hyne (1905)
The port-captain heard Tob's rude banter and looked up with a face of horror, and I remembered, with a small sigh, that colonial freedom would have no place here in Atlantis. ❋ Charles John Cutcliffe Wright Hyne (1905)
No signals were exchanged between us and the shore, and no port-captain came on board. ❋ Johann Jakob Von Tschudi (1853)
When I went to Martinique to be port-captain of St. Pierre, this man was civil governor of the island, and refused to confirm my appointment.” ❋ Phillips, Mary E (1912)
"This good port-captain tells me that you made a most valiant attempt to return, Nais, and for an excuse you told that it was your love for some man in the city here which drew you. ❋ Charles John Cutcliffe Wright Hyne (1905)
Martinique to be port-captain of St. Pierre, this man was civil governor of the island, and refused to confirm my appointment. " ❋ Unknown (1901)
