Travel and Adventure: Comprising Some of the Most Striking Narratives on RecordDavis Wasgatt Clark A. Poe & L. Hitchcock, 1864 - 416 sider |
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... able - bodied men . During the day , the cap- tain kept all his men employed in arranging and packing a vast variety of goods for car- riage . In addition to the necessary clothing for the company , arms , ammunition , etc. , there were ...
... able - bodied men . During the day , the cap- tain kept all his men employed in arranging and packing a vast variety of goods for car- riage . In addition to the necessary clothing for the company , arms , ammunition , etc. , there were ...
Side 61
... able to recognize by the taste a single ingredient which it contained ; a stranger came among us , who did not know , when he commenced eating , that the dish was formed of more than one item , and yet in less than five minutes he ...
... able to recognize by the taste a single ingredient which it contained ; a stranger came among us , who did not know , when he commenced eating , that the dish was formed of more than one item , and yet in less than five minutes he ...
Side 67
... able to weather a point about five miles below before the gale again . commenced , where we could lie by till it should be safe to proceed . The calm proved , as some of us had suspected , a treacherous one ; in a very few minutes after ...
... able to weather a point about five miles below before the gale again . commenced , where we could lie by till it should be safe to proceed . The calm proved , as some of us had suspected , a treacherous one ; in a very few minutes after ...
Side 79
... able gulfs . " Taking my steps , " says he , " with the greatest caution , I could not prevent myself from slipping ; as the space became wider , I be- came less cautious , and while looking over the edge into the upper crevice , my ...
... able gulfs . " Taking my steps , " says he , " with the greatest caution , I could not prevent myself from slipping ; as the space became wider , I be- came less cautious , and while looking over the edge into the upper crevice , my ...
Side 153
... , and putting to sea without any one cast- ing a thought on the Picards , who , less able to enforce attention than others , were about to be abandoned on the wreck . A place had been promised SHIPWRECK OF THE MEDUSA . 153.
... , and putting to sea without any one cast- ing a thought on the Picards , who , less able to enforce attention than others , were about to be abandoned on the wreck . A place had been promised SHIPWRECK OF THE MEDUSA . 153.
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adventures afterward Alexander Selkirk allowed appeared arrived attempt Auldjo became Blackfeet boat bread brig brought buffalo called Captain Cinque Ports coast commanded companions crew Dampier danger death deck distance door endeavored escape father feet felt fire frigate gave governor grizzly bear hands heard hight hope horses Indians island Italy jailer Juan Fernandez land Lavalette length looked Maroncelli Medusa ment Milan miles mind Mont Blanc morning mountains mutineers natives never night Norfolk Island o'clock officers party passed Pellico person pinnace Pitcairn's Island poor prison provisions raft reached received remained returned river rope sail sailors says scarcely schooner secondini seemed seized Selkirk Senegal sent ship shore side sight Silvio Pellico situation soon Stradling suffered thing thought tion Tofoa took Townsend travelers Tude vessel voyage whole William Funnel wind wine wounded yawl