"So be it, then," replied the count, and extending his hand towards a calendar, suspended near the chimney-piece, he said, "to-day is the
21st of February;" and drawing out his watch, added, "it is exactly half-past ten o'clock.
Joe's Importance.--The Commander of the Resolute.--Kennedy's Arsenal.--Mutual Amenities.--The Farewell Dinner.--Departure on the
21st of February.--The Doctor's Scientific Sessions.-- Duveyrier.--Livingstone.--Details of the Aerial Voyage.--Kennedy silenced.
We left this place of interview the next day, and on the
21st of June arrived at Fremone, the residence of the missionaries, where we were welcomed by great numbers of Catholics, both Portuguese and Abyssins, who spared no endeavours to make us forget all we had suffered in so hazardous a journey, undertaken with no other intention than to conduct them in the way of salvation.
21st, the signal for the fleet to bear up and steer east was made.
It is in a man's handwriting, large, bold, and firmly regular, and the date is "June the
21st." It contains these lines--]
On the
21st of April, 1708, we sailed into the river of Clumegnig, which is a seaport town, at the south-east point of Luggnagg.
"In eighty days; on Saturday, the
21st of December, 1872, at a quarter before nine p.m.
I had been cutting up some caper or other --I think it was trying to crawl up the chimney, as i had seen a little sweep do a few days previous; and my stepmother who, somehow or other, was all the time whipping me, or sending me to bed supperless, --my mother dragged me by the legs out of the chimney and packed me off to bed, though it was only two o'clock in the afternoon of the
21st June, the longest day in the year in our hemisphere.
And so, my fellow Americans, as we stand at the edge of the
21st Century, let us begin anew, with energy and hope, with faith and discipline, and let us work until our work is done.
From the
21st to the 23rd of January the Nautilus went at the rate of two hundred and fifty leagues in twenty-four hours, being five hundred and forty miles, or twenty-two miles an hour.
On the
21st he was again floundering through the snow, on the great Snake River plain, where it lay to the depth of thirty inches.
The next day (October
21st) , the cold continued, accompanied by snow.