A Description of Pitcairn's Island and Its Inhabitants: With an Authentic Account of the Mutiny of the Ship Bounty, and of the Subsequent Fortunes of the MutineersHarper, 1832 - 303 sider |
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... shores , in succession , Wallis , Bougainville , and Cook . The first communication which Wallis had with these people was unfortunately of a hostile nature . Having approached with his ship close to the shore , the usual symbol of ...
... shores , in succession , Wallis , Bougainville , and Cook . The first communication which Wallis had with these people was unfortunately of a hostile nature . Having approached with his ship close to the shore , the usual symbol of ...
Side 18
... shore . It is stated , that at this time there could not be less than three hundred canoes about the ship , having on board at least two thousand men . Again they dispersed , but having soon collected into something like order , they ...
... shore . It is stated , that at this time there could not be less than three hundred canoes about the ship , having on board at least two thousand men . Again they dispersed , but having soon collected into something like order , they ...
Side 19
... shore the following day to get water . While the casks were filling , several natives were perceived coming from behind the hills and through the woods , and at the same time a multitude of canoes from behind a projecting point of the ...
... shore the following day to get water . While the casks were filling , several natives were perceived coming from behind the hills and through the woods , and at the same time a multitude of canoes from behind a projecting point of the ...
Side 20
... shore , with directions to destroy every canoe they could find ; and we are told this service was effectually performed , and that more than fifty canoes , many of which were sixty feet long and three broad , and lashed together , were ...
... shore , with directions to destroy every canoe they could find ; and we are told this service was effectually performed , and that more than fifty canoes , many of which were sixty feet long and three broad , and lashed together , were ...
Side 21
... shore , which he understood to be an invitation , and made signs that he would go thither the next morning . His visit to this lady displays so much character and good feeling , that it will best be described in the captain's own words ...
... shore , which he understood to be an invitation , and made signs that he would go thither the next morning . His visit to this lady displays so much character and good feeling , that it will best be described in the captain's own words ...
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Adams affectionate appeared arms arrival assistance beloved boat boatswain Bounty bread bread-fruit brother brought called canoes Captain Beechey Captain Bligh Captain Cook Captain Edwards Captain Pipon carpenter Charles Churchill Churchill circumstances clothes cocoanut commander conduct Cook court court-martial crew dear dearest death deck distress doubt endeavour feeling feet Fletcher Christian Fryer gave Hallet hands happy Hayward heard honour hope innocence James Morrison John John Adams kind land launch letter Lieutenant Bligh M'Intosh majesty's majesty's ship manner master-at-arms mate Matthew Quintal midshipman mind morning Morrison mutiny narrative natives NESSY HEYWOOD never night Novel observes occasion officers ordered Otaheitans Otaheite Pandora person Peter Heywood Pitcairn's Island prisoners Quintal received remained sail seamen ship ship's company shore sister situation soon Stewart sufferings tain taken thing Thomas Ellison tion told vessel vols voyage whole women young
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Side 152 - Louder than the loud ocean, like a crash Of echoing thunder; and then all was hush'd, Save the wild wind and the remorseless dash Of billows; but at intervals there gush'd, Accompanied with a convulsive splash, A solitary shriek, the bubbling cry Of some strong swimmer in his agony.
Side 63 - Horror and doubt distract His troubled thoughts, and from the bottom stir The hell within him ; for within him Hell He brings, and round about him, nor from Hell One step, no more than from himself, can fly By change of place.
Side 214 - Well believe this, No ceremony that to great ones 'longs, Not the king's crown, nor the deputed sword, The marshal's truncheon, nor the judge's robe, Become them with one half so good a grace, As mercy does.
Side 134 - Put the wild waters in this roar, allay them. The sky, it seems, would pour down stinking pitch, But that the sea, mounting to the welkin's cheek, Dashes the fire out.
Side 207 - Yet, if I am found guilty this day, they will not construe it, I trust, as the least disrespect offered to their discernment and opinion, if I solemnly declare that my heart will rely with confidence in its own innocence, until that awful period when my spirit shall be about to be separated from my body to take its everlasting flight, and be ushered into the presence of that unerring Judge, before whom all hearts are open and from whom no secrets are hid.
Side 48 - The bread-tree, which, without the ploughshare, yields The unreap'd harvest of unfurrow'd fields, And bakes its unadulterated loaves Without a furnace in unpurchased groves, And flings off famine from its fertile breast, A priceless market for the gathering guest...
Side 152 - And down she suck'd with her the whirling wave, Like one who grapples with his enemy, And strives to strangle him before he die.
Side 69 - Notwithstanding the roughness with which I was treated the remembrance of past kindnesses produced some signs of remorse in Christian. When they were forcing me out of the ship I asked him if this treatment was a proper return for the many instances he had received of my friendship? he appeared disturbed at my question and answered with much emotion: "That, captain Bligh, that is the thing; I am in hell, I am in hell.
Side 250 - Pacific islands; his only dress was a piece of cloth round his loins, and a straw hat ornamented with the black feathers of the domestic fowl. "With a great share of good humour...
Side 214 - ... the commissioners for executing the office of Lord High Admiral of Great Britain and Ireland...