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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... whole life- for the improvement of my mind in the knowledge of useful literature and those sciences that are immediately connected with the pursuits to which I have been professionally devo- ted . My efforts have not been without ...
... whole life- for the improvement of my mind in the knowledge of useful literature and those sciences that are immediately connected with the pursuits to which I have been professionally devo- ted . My efforts have not been without ...
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... whole work before it was offered to any one for cor- rection . It has undergone no alteration in respect to the facts , the general arrangement , the matter intro- duced , or the spirit and tenor of the sentiments and reflections ...
... whole work before it was offered to any one for cor- rection . It has undergone no alteration in respect to the facts , the general arrangement , the matter intro- duced , or the spirit and tenor of the sentiments and reflections ...
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... whole is written with a spirit of independence , without wound- ing the feelings , as I trust , of any good man . Per- haps my remarks may sometimes appear to pay too little deference to popular prejudice . I hope howev- er , that what ...
... whole is written with a spirit of independence , without wound- ing the feelings , as I trust , of any good man . Per- haps my remarks may sometimes appear to pay too little deference to popular prejudice . I hope howev- er , that what ...
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... whole war , and who often 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 ...
... whole war , and who often 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 ...
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... whole , tied a string round the neck leaving the top of the shirt like a hood on the head , the face looking through the opening in the bosom of the shirt , and gave the whole the appearance of a woman , because this was the kind of ...
... whole , tied a string round the neck leaving the top of the shirt like a hood on the head , the face looking through the opening in the bosom of the shirt , and gave the whole the appearance of a woman , because this was the kind of ...
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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.