I adopted one ball as the proportion of weight that each person should receive of bread at the times I served it. I also amused all hands with describing the situation of New Guinea and New Holland, and... The Home of the Mutineers - Side 44af Thomas Boyles Murray - 1854 - 342 siderFuld visning - Om denne bog
| 1812 - 532 sider
...the boat, twenty-five of which weighed a pound, or sixteen ounces, I adopted one weighing 272 grains, as the proportion of weight that each person should...served it. I also amused all hands with describing the situation of New Guinea and New Holland, and gave them every information in my power, that in case... | |
| R. P. Forster - 1818 - 592 sider
...dry and in order. Hitherto I had issued the allowance by guess, but I now got a pair of scales, made with two cocoa-nut shells ; and, having accidentally...weighed one pound, or sixteen ounces, I adopted one, as the proportion of weight that each person should receive of bread at the times I served it. I also... | |
| William Bligh - 1820 - 188 sider
...boat, twenty-five of which weighed a pound, or sixteen ounces, I adopted one, weighing 272 grains, as the proportion of weight that each person should receive of bread, at the times 1 served U. I also amused all hands with describing the situation of New Guinea, and New Holland, 42... | |
| William Bligh - 1824 - 184 sider
...boat, twenty-five of which weighed a pound, or sixteen ounces, I adopted one, weighing 272 grains, as the proportion of weight that each person should...served it. I also amused all hands with describing the situation of New Guinea, and New Holland, and gave them every information in my power, that in eve... | |
| Sir John Barrow - 1832 - 320 sider
...occupied them until sunset before they got every thing dry and in order. " Hitherto," Bligh says, " I had issued the allowance by guess, but I now made...receive of bread at the times I served it. I also amused aH hands with describing the situations of New-Guinea and NewHolland, and gave them every information... | |
| William Bligh - 1838 - 86 sider
...cleaned out the boat, and it employed us till sun-set to get everything dry and in order. Hitherto I had issued the allowance by guess, but I now made...having accidentally some pistol-balls in the boat, 25 of which weigh«! one pound, or 16 ounces, I adopted one*, as tin' proportion of weight that each... | |
| Sir John Barrow - 1845 - 310 sider
...occupied them until sunset before they got every thing dry and in order. " Hitherto^" Bligh says, " I had issued the allowance by guess, but I now made...amused all hands with describing the situations of New-Guinea and NewHolland, and gave them every information in my power, that in case any accident should... | |
| William Chambers, Robert Chambers - 1846 - 934 sider
...cleaned out the boat, and it employed us till sunset to get everything dry and in order. Hitherto I bad issued the allowance by guess, but I now made a pair...two cocoa-nut shells, and having accidentally some pistolperson also amused all hands with describing the situation of New Guinea and New Holland, and... | |
| James Grant - 1852 - 390 sider
...•_- ••-- I Mr tdOMC. M •ua-^L, • . W flML «bw; ». ,dvit. «» — ~. therto," says Bligh, "I had issued the allowance by guess ; but I now made...weight that each person should receive of bread at the time I served it. I also amused all hands with describing the situation of New Guinea and New Holland,... | |
| Thomas Boyles Murray - 1853 - 306 sider
...half a pint of cocoa-nut milk, an ounce of bread and a tea-spoonful of rum. " Hitherto," says Bligh, " I had issued the allowance by guess ; but I now made...weight that each person should receive of bread at the time I served it." The allowance of half-a-pint of cocoa-nut milk was, soon reduced to a quarter of... | |
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