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afterwards appeared Arctic arms arrived Bay of Islands Beer Island birds blowing boat body breakers brig cabin canoe Captain Wilson carried casks cavern chief coast command cooked crew danger deck escape fate fearful feet fell Finow fire fish floating friends gale gunwales hands harbour head hope hundred island kava killed king Kook Lancaster Sound land length Malays Mariner masts Matabooles mate mats merai miles morning muskets natives night officers overboard paddle party passed passengers peccary pieces pinnace Port Port au Prince Port Jackson Port Louis provisions raft reached reef remained rocks round sail Sambo savages saved seamen seen sent ship ship's shipmates shore side sight sloop-of-war soon spars Spitzbergen struck surf third mate trees vessel visited voyage washed watch weapon wind women wreck yams young Zealand
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Side 129 - Though least in size, the glittering mantle of the Mrdf humming-bird entitles it to the first place in the list of the birds of the new world. It may truly be called the bird of paradise; and had it existed in the old SECOND world, it would have claimed the title instead of the ~U""LY bird which has now the honour to bear it...
Side 210 - The order and regularity that prevailed on board, from the time the ship struck till she totally disappeared, far exceeded anything that I thought could be effected by the best discipline...
Side 98 - I do not fear a thousand — nay, fifteen hundred of them. I have the fullest confidence we shall beat them. The pikemen standing firm, we can give them such a volley of musketry as they will be little prepared for ; and when we find they are thrown into confusion...
Side 293 - But the ludicrous soon took the place of all other feelings; in such a crowd and such confusion, all serious thought was impossible, while the new buoyancy of our spirits made us abundantly willing to be amused by the scene which now opened. Every man was hungry, and was to be fed ; all were ragged, and were to be clothed ; there was not one to whom washing was not indispensable, nor one whom his beard did not deprive of all human semblance. All — everything, too, was to be done at once; it was...
Side 288 - ... these mountains hurled through a narrow strait by a rapid tide, meeting with the noise of thunder, breaking from each other's precipices huge fragments, or rending each other asunder, till, losing their former equilibrium, they fall over headlong, lifting the sea around in breakers, and whirling it in eddies. There is not a moment in which it can be conjectured what will happen in the next ; there is not one which may not be the last.
Side 98 - Very few words were spoken by any, and the only sound that we heard was the splash of the waters, or the heavy breathing of the poor sufferers, as they tried to recover their breath after a wave had passed over them. Nearly all were submerged to their armpits, while a few could with great difficulty keep their heads above the surface. The women were the first to go ; they were unable to stand the exposure more than three or four hours.
Side 238 - ... but mainly on account of the detached masses of rock which a very slight matter would displace, and hurl down the precipitous declivity, to the utter destruction of him who depended upon their support, or who might happen to be in their path below. The latter part of our ascent was, indeed, much against our inclination ; but we found it impossible to descend by the way we had come up, and were compelled to gain a ledge, which promised the only secure restingplace we could 'find at that height....
Side 210 - All received their orders, and had them carried out, as if the men were embarking, instead of going to the bottom ; there was only this difference, that I never saw any embarkation...
Side 40 - At last, it happened one day," the narrative proceeds, " while we were all assembled at a feast in our village, that Aimy called me to him, in the presence of several more chiefs, and, having told them of my activity in shooting and fishing, concluded by saying that he wished to make me a chief, if I would give my consent. This I readily did : upon which my hair was immediately cut with an oyster shell in the front, in the same manner as the chiefs have theirs cut ; and several of the chiefs made...
Side 285 - I thanked every one for their excellent conduct, and cautioned them, as we should, in all probability, soon appear before our Maker, to enter his presence as men resigned to their fate.