Bezan

Once, he writes, "I took the Bezan back with me, and with a brave gale and tide reached up that night to the Hope, taking great pleasure in learning the seamen's manner of singing when they sound the depths."

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It is at the foot of Mount Gilboa where Saul fought his last battle and met his death, close to Bezan where his body and that of Jonathan were taken.

Palestine Today 1929

Some of our people were excavating in one of the new Jewish agricultural colonies near Bezan.

Palestine Today 1929

Once, he writes, “I took the Bezan back with me, and with a brave gale and tide reached up that night to the Hope, taking great pleasure in learning the seamen’s manner of singing when they sound the depths.

Samuel Pepys 1909

So after supper Captain Cocke and I and Temple on board the Bezan, and there to cards for a while and then to read again in

Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 39: October 1665 Samuel Pepys 1668

After dinner my Lord by a ketch down to Erith, where the Bezan was, it blowing these last two days and now both night and day very hard southwardly, so that it has certainly drove the Dutch off the coast.

Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 39: October 1665 Samuel Pepys 1668

But when I come to the stairs I considered the Bezan would not go till the next ebb, and it was best to lie in a good bed and, it may be, get myself into a better humour by being with my wife.

Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 38: September 1665 Samuel Pepys 1668

Up, and after doing some business I down by water, calling to see my wife, with whom very merry for ten minutes, and so to Erith, where my Lord Bruncker and I kept the office, and dispatched some business by appointment on the Bezan.

Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1665 N.S. Samuel Pepys 1668

So down to Deptford again to fetch the rest, and there eat a bit of dinner at the Globe, with the master of the Bezan with me, while the labourers went to dinner.

Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 45: August/September 1666 Samuel Pepys 1668

After dinner I took him down with me to Deptford, and there by the Bezan loaded above half my goods and sent them away.

Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 45: August/September 1666 Samuel Pepys 1668