"Main course" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... island of Corea[43] and the main land of China, occasioning a very heavy sea. The 8th, being in lat. 29 deg. 40' N. we steered W.S.W, on purpose to make Cape Sumbor on the coast of China. The sea was very rough, and the wind so strong that it blew our main course out of the bolt ropes. The 9th, in lat. 28 deg. 23', we sounded and had forty-nine to forty-five fathoms on an oozy bottom. The weather was clear, yet we could not see land. The 11th we had ground in forty-nine, forty-three, thirty-eight, thirty-seven, and ...
— A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume IX. • Robert Kerr |
