Narrative of Voyages and Travels in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres: Comprising Three Voyages Round the World; Together with a Voyage of Survey and Discovery, in the Pacific Ocean and Oriental Islands. By Amasa Delano, Bind 1E. G. House, 1817 - 598 sider |
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... told , customs are described , and principles and traits of character among the natives are brought to light , which , I trust , my readers will find worthy of their attention . Having kept journals of my voyages and travels , which ...
... told , customs are described , and principles and traits of character among the natives are brought to light , which , I trust , my readers will find worthy of their attention . Having kept journals of my voyages and travels , which ...
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... told me that Shaw enjoyed the full approbation and con- fidence of all his superior officers . He was a man of fine talents and considerable cultivation ; he placed so high a value upon the sentiments of honour that some of his friends ...
... told me that Shaw enjoyed the full approbation and con- fidence of all his superior officers . He was a man of fine talents and considerable cultivation ; he placed so high a value upon the sentiments of honour that some of his friends ...
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... told them that I had always disbelieved their stories on this subject , and did still ; that it was weakness and folly for them to be agitated at the sight which they pretended to have seen ; and that they would one day be ashamed of it ...
... told them that I had always disbelieved their stories on this subject , and did still ; that it was weakness and folly for them to be agitated at the sight which they pretended to have seen ; and that they would one day be ashamed of it ...
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... told him to hand the jolly boat's oars that were then in the long boat on deck . He did so , and by that mean we had four oars . As soon as I was in the jolly boat , four men with me , the lashing cast off , and the boat ready to lower ...
... told him to hand the jolly boat's oars that were then in the long boat on deck . He did so , and by that mean we had four oars . As soon as I was in the jolly boat , four men with me , the lashing cast off , and the boat ready to lower ...
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... told him that I wanted a party of vol- unteers to go with me , who should find good stores provided , and plenty of grog . The party was soon made up . Drummond col . lected his crew in his own way , We put two muskets and ammy- nition ...
... told him that I wanted a party of vol- unteers to go with me , who should find good stores provided , and plenty of grog . The party was soon made up . Drummond col . lected his crew in his own way , We put two muskets and ammy- nition ...
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Side 334 - That all the negroes slept upon deck, as is customary in this navigation, and none wore fetters, because the owner, his friend Aranda, told him that they were all tractable; * * * that on the seventh day after leaving port, at three o'clock in the morning, all the Spaniards being asleep except the two officers on the watch, who were the boatswain, Juan Robles, and the carpenter, Juan Bautista...
Side 118 - Otaheite are handsome, mild, and cheerful in manners and conversation, possessed of great sensibility, and have sufficient delicacy to make them be admired and beloved. The chiefs were so much attached to our people, that they rather encouraged their stay among them than otherwise, and even made them promises of large possessions. Under these and many other...
Side 116 - Come, Captain Bligh, your officers and men are now in the boat, and you must go with them ; if you attempt to make the least resistance, you will instantly be put to death...
Side 115 - I'll be damned if he does not find his way home if he gets any thing with him," meaning me ; and when the carpenter's chest was carrying away, " Damn my eyes, he will have a vessel built in a month...
Side 336 - Alexandro's; that, awakening at his cries, surprised by them, and at the sight of the negroes with their bloody hatchets in their hands, he threw himself into the sea through a window which was near him. and was drowned, without it being in the power of the deponent to assist or take him up; * * * that, a short time after killing Aranda, they brought upon deck his german-cousin, of middle-age, Don Francisco Masa, of Mendoza.
Side 114 - The mutineers having forced those of the seamen whom they meant to get rid of into the boat, Christian directed a dram to be served to each of his own crew. I then unhappily saw that nothing could be done to...
Side 130 - ... their teeth, like ivory, were regular and beautiful, without a single exception, and all of them, both male and female, had the most marked English features.
Side 115 - Isaac Martin, one of the guard over me, I saw had an inclination to assist me, and as he fed me with shaddock (my lips being quite parched), we explained our wishes to each other by our looks; but this being observed, Martin was removed from me. He then attempted to leave the ship, for which purpose he got into the boat; but with many threats they obliged him to return. The...
Side 335 - ... to kill all the whites if they were not, at all events, carried to Senegal, he told them that what was most wanting for the voyage was water; that they would go near the coast to take it, and...
Side 115 - The officers were next called upon deck and forced over the side into the boat, while I was kept apart from every one abaft the mizen-mast, Christian, armed with a bayonet, holding me by the bandage that secured my hands. The guard round me had their pieces cocked, but on my daring the ungrateful wretches to fire, they uncocked them.