Travel and Adventure: Comprising Some of the Most Striking Narratives on RecordDavis Wasgatt Clark Swormstedt & Poe, 1856 - 416 sider |
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... fires and rummaging out the long - neglected stew - pans , while I engaged myself at once and with very considerable vigor in flaying the little animal , and cutting up his body in readiness for the pots . " When the camp was aroused ...
... fires and rummaging out the long - neglected stew - pans , while I engaged myself at once and with very considerable vigor in flaying the little animal , and cutting up his body in readiness for the pots . " When the camp was aroused ...
Side 69
... fire which we built on the shore . " For two or three days they were tossed about on the river , now attempting to make way , now forced to land again , and always drenched to the skin . The missionaries and their party , too , who had ...
... fire which we built on the shore . " For two or three days they were tossed about on the river , now attempting to make way , now forced to land again , and always drenched to the skin . The missionaries and their party , too , who had ...
Side 85
... fires on the summit of Mont Blanc . The extreme rarity of the air , which rendered the breathing so difficult , also made it no easy matter to kindle and keep alive the fire , oxygen being in both cases defective . Without the unceasing ...
... fires on the summit of Mont Blanc . The extreme rarity of the air , which rendered the breathing so difficult , also made it no easy matter to kindle and keep alive the fire , oxygen being in both cases defective . Without the unceasing ...
Side 95
... fire , started on his feet , and looked above and around him , unable to distin- guish the quarter from whence the report came . Almost immediately he heard the sound re- peated , and then distinctly perceived smoke curling from the ...
... fire , started on his feet , and looked above and around him , unable to distin- guish the quarter from whence the report came . Almost immediately he heard the sound re- peated , and then distinctly perceived smoke curling from the ...
Side 100
... fire through the gratings overhead as often as any of the mutineers passed . In this manner several of them received wounds . To prevent a continuance of this , a kettle of hot water was poured from above , and shortly after- ward a ...
... fire through the gratings overhead as often as any of the mutineers passed . In this manner several of them received wounds . To prevent a continuance of this , a kettle of hot water was poured from above , and shortly after- ward a ...
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adventures afterward Alexander Selkirk allowed appeared arrived attempt Auldjo became Blackfeet boat bread brig brought buffalo called Captain Cinque Ports coast commanded companions crew Dampier danger death deck distance door endeavored escape father feet felt fire frigate gave governor grizzly bear hands heard hight hope horses Indians island Italy jailer Juan Fernandez land Lavalette length looked Maroncelli Medusa ment Milan miles mind Mont Blanc morning mountains mutineers natives never night Norfolk Island o'clock officers party passed Pellico person pinnace Pitcairn's Island poor prison provisions raft reached received remained returned river rope sail sailors says scarcely schooner secondini seemed seized Selkirk Senegal sent ship shore side sight Silvio Pellico situation soon Stradling suffered thing thought tion Tofoa took Townsend travelers Tude vessel voyage whole William Funnel wind wine wounded yawl