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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... served as a supernumerary watch for several hours , was stooping to lay his gun in its usual place at the head of his couch , when he was startled by seeing a pair of eyes , wild and bright as those of a tiger , gleaming from a dark ...
... served as a supernumerary watch for several hours , was stooping to lay his gun in its usual place at the head of his couch , when he was startled by seeing a pair of eyes , wild and bright as those of a tiger , gleaming from a dark ...
Side 82
... serving as bridges across the openings . At one place , Mr. Auldjo and his party crossed a vast chasm by a large and lofty block of ice , which had stuck in it , and the side of which had to be cut by the hatchet , to allow of places ...
... serving as bridges across the openings . At one place , Mr. Auldjo and his party crossed a vast chasm by a large and lofty block of ice , which had stuck in it , and the side of which had to be cut by the hatchet , to allow of places ...
Side 129
... serving this , and taking a favorable opportunity , he tripped as fast as possible down the flight of steps , and shutting the bottom door of the stair- case , advanced boldly to the garden - gates where a sentinel was posted by way of ...
... serving this , and taking a favorable opportunity , he tripped as fast as possible down the flight of steps , and shutting the bottom door of the stair- case , advanced boldly to the garden - gates where a sentinel was posted by way of ...
Side 134
... serving as a coun- terpoise to each other . Here they fastened their rope - ladder to a piece of cannon , and let themselves and their baggage down into the trench , an operation which was attended with the utmost difficulty ; for out ...
... serving as a coun- terpoise to each other . Here they fastened their rope - ladder to a piece of cannon , and let themselves and their baggage down into the trench , an operation which was attended with the utmost difficulty ; for out ...
Side 143
... served to confirm hopes of happiness in the Picards , and on the 28th of June they felt interested in contempla- ting the lofty peak of Teneriffe , which rose on the horizon . The satisfaction which the pas- sengers now generally felt ...
... served to confirm hopes of happiness in the Picards , and on the 28th of June they felt interested in contempla- ting the lofty peak of Teneriffe , which rose on the horizon . The satisfaction which the pas- sengers now generally felt ...
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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