Interestingly, however, Gongo Lutete himself was apparently sickened by the cannibalism of his own people, having been raised from an early age in Arab customs as a slave to the infamous Swahili-Zanzibari merchant Tippu Tip, who eventually freed Gongo in return for his bravery in battle.

Vancouver did eventually learn of the river before he finished his survey — from Robert Gray, captain of the American merchant ship that conducted the first Euroamerican sailing of the Columbia River on 11 May 1792, after first sighting it on an earlier voyage in 1788.

Barrayar is eventually rediscovered by a different wormhole route near the rich merchant planet Komarr.

In the Gnostic Acts of Peter and the Twelve, found with the Gospel of Thomas in the Nag Hammadi library, the travelling pearl merchant Lithargoel is eventually revealed to be Jesus.

Burke eventually either resigns or is asked to leave, and goes into the merchant service, but the remainder do well enough to be assigned to working Patrol ships.

This merchant eventually brought Warbeck to Cork, Ireland in 1491 when he was about seventeen, and it was here that he learnt to speak English.

The merchant fleet entered into a period of diversification that would eventually result in the creation of three entities:

Early in 1797, the Spanish fleet of 27 ships of the line, which were supposed to join the French fleet at Brest lay at Cartagena, on the Mediterranean Sea, with the intention of sailing to Cádiz as an escort of a 57 merchant convoy, carrying mainly mercury — necessary for gold and silver production — which would eventually enter that Spanish harbour along with warships Neptuno, Terrible and Bahama, prior to running into the British force.

José Escrivá was a merchant and a partner in a textile firm which eventually went bankrupt, forcing the family to move in 1915 to the city of Logroño, in the northern province of La Rioja, where he worked as a clerk in a clothing store.

He quickly established himself as a merchant and eventually owned more shipping tonnage than any other New Yorker.

Irad moved to Cleveland, Ohio in 1812, eventually becoming a successful merchant, postmaster, sailor, and real-estate investor.

The maintenance of a certain level of merchant shipping and of trade generally also facilitated a rapid increase in the size and quality of the Royal Navy, which eventually ( after the Anglo-Dutch Alliance of 1689 limited the Dutch navy to three-fifths of the size of the English one ) led to Britain becoming a global superpower until the mid-20th century.

Nickerson returned to sea after his rescue, serving on other whale ships and eventually working his way up to captain of a merchant vessel.

It eventually gave rise to " château bottling ", the practice where an estate's wine is put in a bottle at the source, rather than by a merchant.

At an early age he became prominent as a North Carolina merchant, attorney, and justice of the peace ; experiences which eventually led to a seat in the North Carolina House of Commons.

He eventually worked for another merchant, Fritz Heberlein ( a native of Nuremberg but established in Antwerp ) who allowed him to learn arithmetic and improve his skills.

The Molineux name originates from Benjamin Molineux, a successful local merchant ( and a distant relative of the now extinct Earls of Sefton ) who, in 1744, purchased land on which he built Molineux House ( later converted to the Molineux Hotel ) and on which the stadium would eventually be built.

For Evola this text represented a manipulation by occult powers trying to hide behind the Jewish and Freemasonic historical drive toward a merchant society soon to be replaced by the chaos of " mass society " which could eventually turn against both.

During the Kamakura Period, the Tendai school used its patronage to try to oppose the growth of rival factions — particularly the Nichiren school, which began to grow in power among the merchant middle class, and the Pure Land school, which eventually came to claim the loyalty of many of the poorer classes.

He is eventually able to send his first two sons to school and apprentice the third one as a merchant.

Marin eventually settled in Rome, where he became a cloth merchant and money lender near the Piazza Trinità dei Monti.

With the new gunpowder recipe obtained by scientist Choe Mu-seon from a Chinese merchant, General Choe Yong and his subordinate Yi Seonggye managed to rout and eventually defeat the pirates and reclaim Gongju.

He eventually finds his way to a very wealthy wine merchant who has three daughters.

She was the daughter of a cloth merchant, an ugly child who eventually entered into an arranged marriage and bore a daughter, Clara, whom she loved dearly.

In the novel, the story of Max Havelaar, a Dutch colonial administrator, is told by two diametrically opposed characters: the hypocritical coffee merchant Droogstoppel, who intends to use Havelaar's manuscripts to write about the coffee trade, and the romantic German apprentice Stern, who takes over when Droogstoppel loses interest in the story.

On the evening of his son George's wedding to wealthy Arabella Wilmot, the vicar loses all his money through the bankruptcy of his merchant investor who left town with his money.

Admiralty law, the law merchant, and the host of problems which arise in private litigation because of some contact with a foreign country were all severed from the older Law of Nations and made dependent on the several national laws.

These castes had a complex structure in the fragmented city states of Italy such as Genoa, Venice, Naples, Roma, Florence and Lombardy ; in some, the merchants were the nobili, in others the nobili despised the merchant caste and were agriculturalists, in yet others the nobili caste despised all work.

Encouraged and subsidised by the Board of Trustees so it could compete with German products, merchant entrepreneurs became dominant in all stages of linen manufacturing and built up the market share of Scottish linens, especially in the American colonial market.

Before the widespread availability of incendiary ammunition made commerce raiding too risky, they would also land or hover close to a merchant ship suspected of carrying contraband, order all ship's hands to leave in boats, then inspect the ship, and either destroy it or take it back to Germany as prize.

* Merchant marine, a collective term for all of the merchant ships, shipping companies, and merchant mariners, usually of a particular country ; also known in British usage as the Merchant Navy

" Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto a merchant man, seeking goodly ( fine ) pearls: Who, when he had found one pearl of great price, went and sold all that he had, and bought it.

Following this disturbance, on 7 October the Governor instructed Coronaro to order the Sultan to surrender ; to intimidate the people he ordered the seizure of all merchant boats in the Alula area.

Planning for a massive spring offensive in 1918, it resumed the sinking of all merchant ships without warning.

** The Kriegsmarine orders all German-flagged merchant ships to head to German ports immediately in anticipation of the invasion of Poland.

The British adopted a convoy system, initially voluntary and later compulsory for almost all merchant ships, the moment that World War II was declared.

The exams were open to all male subjects whose fathers were not of the artisan or merchant classes, although having wealth or noble status was not a prerequisite in receiving a recommendation.

The total number of captures by French and Spanish corsairs was in all probability larger than the list of British – as the French wit Voltaire drolly put it upon hearing his government's boast, namely, that more British merchants were taken because there were many more British merchant ships to take ; but partly also because the British government had not yet begun to enforce the use of convoy so strictly as it did in later times.

In 1518 a Jewish merchant of Avlona succeeded in lowering the duties paid in Ancona for all “ the Levantine merchants, subjects to the Turk ”.

According to Grotius, letters of marque and reprisal were akin to a " private war ", a concept alien to modern sensibilities but related to an age when the ocean was lawless and all merchant vessels sailed armed for self-defense.

The merchant hastily formed a search party that scoured all corners of the city until the boy was found happily urinating in a small garden.

Booklets were printed and dispatched to all Atoll and Island Offices, as well as schools and merchant liners.

" The Rouse " is then sounded by the trumpeters of the Royal Air Force, after which wreaths are laid by the Queen and senior members of the Royal Family attending in military uniform and then, to " Beethoven's Funeral March " ( composed by Johann Heinrich Walch ), by attendees in the following order: the Prime Minister ; the leaders of the major political parties from all parts of the United Kingdom ; Commonwealth High Commissioners to London, on behalf of their respective nations ; the Foreign Secretary, on behalf of the British Dependencies ; the First Sea Lord ; the Chief of the General Staff ; the Chief of the Air Staff ; representatives of the merchant navy and Fishing Fleets and the merchant air service.

In the 17th and 19th centuries, the Romanians in Șchei campaigned for national, political, and cultural rights, and were supported in their efforts by Romanians from all other provinces, as well as by the local Greek merchant community.

The Adorno, Campofregoso, and other smaller merchant families all fought for power in this Republic, as the power of the consuls allowed each family faction to gain wealth and power in the city.

The eye-witness Richard Clough, a Welsh Protestant merchant then in Antwerp, saw: " all the churches, chapels and houses of religion utterly defaced, and no kind of thing left whole within them, but broken and utterly destroyed, being done after such order and by so few folks that it is to be marvelled at.

While sunken ships from the Spanish Main ( such as Nuestra Señora de Atocha in the Florida Keys ) are the most commonly thought of type of treasure salvage, other types of ships including German submarines from World War II which can hold valuable historical artifacts, American Civil War ships ( the USS Maple Leaf in the St. Johns River, and the CSS Virginia in Chesapeake Bay ), and sunken merchant ships ( the SS Central America off Cape Hatteras ) have all been the subject of treasure salvage awards.

The series was an immediate success, and was followed in 1735 by the sequel A Rake's Progress showing in eight pictures the reckless life of Tom Rakewell, the son of a rich merchant, who wastes all his money on luxurious living, whoring, and gambling, and ultimately finishes his life in Bedlam.

The Abbey, which owned in the twenty parishes that constituted Malmesbury Hundred, was closed at the Dissolution of the Monasteries in 1539 by Henry VIII and was sold, with all its lands, to William Stumpe, a rich merchant.