 | John Wesley - 1796 - 666 sider
...and fupporting eighteen men in a crazy open boat, 23 feet long from ftern to ftern, and reftrifted to live on one ounce of bread, and a quarter of a pint of water, per day. They happily accomplifhed their Voyage in 46 days, altho' the diftance from Tofoa is calculated at... | |
 | 1790 - 522 sider
...diftance of full twelve hundred leagues, where was a Dutch fettlement, but in what part of the ifland I knew not, they all agreed to live on one ounce of...of water, per day. Therefore, after examining our ftoclc of provifions, and recommending tills as a facred promife for ever to their memory, we bore... | |
 | 1790 - 564 sider
...Timor, a diftance of fuil i zoo leagues, where was a Dutch lettlement, but in what part of the ifland I knew not, they all agreed to live on one ounce of bread, and a quarter of apiut of water, per day. Therefore, after examining our flock of provifions, and recommending this... | |
 | 1790 - 566 sider
...acrofs a fea, where the navigation is but little known, the crew having promifed to be contented with one ounce of bread, and a quarter of a pint of water, per day.j the whole ftock was i5olb. of bread, 28 gallons of water, 2Olb. of pork, 3 bottles of wine, and... | |
 | 1791 - 508 sider
...probability of reaching the object of their wiflies, they all promifed, in the moft folemn manner, to live on one ounce of bread and a quarter of a pint of water a -day. It would far exceed the bounds we can allow to give a minute detail of the various hardfhips... | |
 | 1796 - 446 sider
...where there was a Dutch fettlement, but in what part of the ifland I knew not, — to effe£t which, they all agreed to live on one ounce of bread, and a quarter of a pint of water per day. Thereforej after examining our ftock of provifions, and recommending to them, in the moft folemn manner,... | |
 | David N. Woodard, William Vaughan - 1804 - 310 sider
...pounds of pork, three bottles of wine, and five quarts of ritm: They all solemnly agreed to live upon one ounce of bread and a quarter of a pint of water per day. A few cocoa-nuts and some bread-fruit were on board, but the latter was trampled to pieces. The men... | |
 | R. P. Forster - 1818 - 592 sider
...but what I might find at New Holland, until I came to Timor, a distance of full 1200 leagues, where was a Dutch settlement, but in what part of the island...ounce of bread, and a quarter of a pint of water, per dav. Therefore, after examining our stock of provisions, and recommending this as a sacred promise... | |
 | 1821 - 682 sider
...and his companions, after a voyage of 1 20O leagues (during which the only subsistence they had was one ounce of bread and a quarter of a pint of water each day), had the good fortune to arrive safe at the Dutch settlement of Cupan, in the island of Timor.... | |
 | Edward Pelham Brenton - 1823 - 560 sider
...courage and good conduct they owed their preservation. He immediately put his crew on an allowance of one ounce of bread and a quarter of a pint of water a day, and bore away for New Holland : his boat was only twenty-three feet long, six feet nine inches... | |
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Therefore, after examining our stock of provisions, and recommending to them, in the most solemu manner, not to depart from their promise, we bore away across a sea, where the navigation is but little known, in a small boat, twenty-three feet long from... 
