A Collection of the Most Celebrated Voyages & Travels, from the Discovery of America to the Present Time: Arranged in Systematic Order, Geographical and Chronological. The Whole Exhibiting a Faithful and Lively Delineation of the World. Carefully Selected from Writers of Different Nations. In Four Volumes, Bind 2Mackenzie and Dent, 1818 |
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... head . This morning the sea was still more muddy , of a yellowish colour , and com- paratively very shallow . Land was unquestionably near , but still not visible . In the course of the day trees were seen from the mast head , and we ...
... head . This morning the sea was still more muddy , of a yellowish colour , and com- paratively very shallow . Land was unquestionably near , but still not visible . In the course of the day trees were seen from the mast head , and we ...
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... head fell back , and life was extinguished . I am told , by a gentleman who had the melancholy task to attend the execu tion , that the most horrid stench continued for many hours to issue from the roasting body , and was extremely ...
... head fell back , and life was extinguished . I am told , by a gentleman who had the melancholy task to attend the execu tion , that the most horrid stench continued for many hours to issue from the roasting body , and was extremely ...
Side 23
... head through the opening , so as to catch the passing breeze ; but the intense heat from the perpendicular rays of the sun , and the death - like nausea and incessant reaching produced by the erect position , woon chased me from this ...
... head through the opening , so as to catch the passing breeze ; but the intense heat from the perpendicular rays of the sun , and the death - like nausea and incessant reaching produced by the erect position , woon chased me from this ...
Side 24
... head became sensible of the sea - motion before we had well escaped from the river , and my stomach sympathizing , violent sickness seized me , and I was compelled to hurry to bed . ' Till now I had taken no thought regarding either ...
... head became sensible of the sea - motion before we had well escaped from the river , and my stomach sympathizing , violent sickness seized me , and I was compelled to hurry to bed . ' Till now I had taken no thought regarding either ...
Side 25
... head , or hope relief for my sickened stomach . Subdued by the depressing langour of nausea , I was too ill to hesitate ; -to lie down was my only care . A death - like sickness impelled me on ; and , unassisted by stairs or ladder , I ...
... head , or hope relief for my sickened stomach . Subdued by the depressing langour of nausea , I was too ill to hesitate ; -to lie down was my only care . A death - like sickness impelled me on ; and , unassisted by stairs or ladder , I ...
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