As soon as I came to the ship's side, my partner, who was on board, came out on the quarter-deck, and called to me, with a great deal of joy, "We have stopped the leak--we have stopped the leak!"--"Say you so?" said I; "thank God; but weigh anchor, then, immediately."--"Weigh!" says he; "what do you mean by that?
I have observed above that our ship sprung a leak at sea, and that we could not find it out; and it happened that, as I have said, it was stopped unexpectedly, on the eve of our being pursued by the Dutch and English ships in the bay of Siam; yet, as we did not find the ship so perfectly tight and sound as we desired, we resolved while we were at this place to lay her on shore, and clean her bottom, and, if possible, to find out where the leaks were.
She was work- ing herself loose, and leaked badly--not enough to drown us at once, but enough to kill us with the work at the pumps.
No wonder she leaked. The poor thing, strained beyond endurance by the gale, had, as if in disgust, spat out all the oakum of her lower seams.
Without doubt some practical person had come along and mended the
leak, and then had come up and told the abbot he had discovered by divination that if the sinful bath were destroyed the well would flow again.
The flat began to
leak and I climbed out on the pile.
A large whale's case generally yields about five hundred gallons of sperm, though from unavoidable circumstances, considerable of it is spilled,
leaks, and dribbles away, or is otherwise irrevocably lost in the ticklish business of securing what you can.
You see, a lot of information seems to have got over on the other side, and we couldn't think where it had
leaked out, except through your wireless.
Yes, the study makes the most valid point here, and that is that
leak detection systems represent a bottom line savings, not an expense.
"Householders should also keep an eye on their pipes as the weather warms up, but it's likely people would spot a
leak at home pretty quickly, so it's the empty buildings we're most concerned about where
leaks could flow unnoticed for prolonged periods of time."
The question was, where was this
leak coming from and how did it get to the inside face of the staircase wall, 2ft below the window?
But increasingly, journalists must weigh whether the
leak is in service of an explicit political agenda.