Sailing
the act of moving on water, or the movement of a ship or vessel impelled by the action of wind on her sails; act of setting sail or beginning a voyage; also, smooth impulsion through the air, as in a balloon; or the aërial passage of a bird. In navigation, the art of directing a ship on a given line laid down on a chart. It is called plane sailing when the chart is constructed on the supposition that the surface of the ocean is an extended plane; and globular sailing, when the chart is a globular chart, or constructed on the hypothesis that the earth is a sphere, the ship being then supposed to be sailing on the arc of a great circle. Sailing order, or order of sailing, is any determinate order preserved by a squadron of ships. It usually implied, in the days of sailing fleets, one, two or three parallel columns, but it is at the disposition of the admiral or commodore. a important port between Singapore and Saigon (properly Gia-dinh) is the most va, natural order Leguminosæ, a native SAINFOIN, a plant, Onobrychis satiof central and southern Europe and part of Asia. It has been in cultivation for centuries for the purpose of supplying fodder for cattle either in the green state or converted into hay. It is a pretty plant with narrow pinnate leaves and long spikes of bright pink flowers; stem 12-2 feet high.
Hong Kong. It exports every year rice, chiefly to China, the Philippines, Japan, and the Straits Settlements. The remaining exports include fish, salt, cotton, wood, beans, and hides. Previous to the French occupation (1861) Saigon, though only a collection of common Siamese huts, was the capital of the province of Lower Cochin-China. Pop. (1919) 64,496, principally Chinese, Annamese, and French.