Our embroidery, our loto, our singing came abruptly to an end, and we found ourselves subjected to all the miseries of a maritime journey.
"A Lady's Captivity among Chinese Pirates in the Chinese Seas"
Fanny Loviot
This gives us the elements of commercial industry; elements which must themselves be taken in conjunction with the maritime habits of the people.
"The Ethnology of the British Colonies and Dependencies"
Robert Gordon Latham
Of the silver of Tarshish which the ships brought from Gades to Tyre, of the gold imported by the trade to Ophir, of the profits of the maritime trade with the land of incense, a considerable percentage must have come into the treasury of the king, and he enjoyed in addition the payments of Solomon.
"The History of Antiquity, Vol. II (of VI)"
Max Duncker