Once we've got a boat, we'll sail to the nearest port, tranship to New Orleans, and from there to France.
Imam Sharif was returning from Zanzibar, and leaving that ship to tranship for India.
Here we had to tranship to the Pekin, to continue by that vessel our voyage eastward.
Oliver agreed with them that they should tranship three or four of their number into the second mate's boat.
As for the 40-pounders it was found too inconvenient to tranship such heavy ordnance.
