 | Woodes Rogers - 1889 - 216 sider
...He had his last shirt on when we found him. 1709 " At his first coming on board us," says Rogers, " he had so much forgot his language for want of use,...him, for he seemed to speak his words by halves. We offer'd him a dram, but he would not touch it, having drank nothing but water since his being there,... | |
 | Woodes Rogers - 1889 - 196 sider
...of use, that we could scarce understand him, for he seemed to speak his words by halves. We offer'd him a dram, but he would not touch it, having drank nothing but water since his being there, and t'was some time before he could relish our victuals. He could give us an account of no other product... | |
 | James Macaulay - 1891 - 426 sider
...worsted of his old stockings, which he pulled out on purpose. He had his last shirt on when we found him. 'At his first coming on board us he had so much forgot...his words by halves. We offered him a dram, but he could not touch it, having drunk nothing but water since his being there, and it was some time before... | |
 | 1888 - 686 sider
...shirt on when we found him on the island. At his first coming on board us, he had so much forgotten his language for want of use, that we could scarce...drank nothing but water since his being there, and 'twas some time before he could relish our victuals. Besides the two sailors mentioned as living alone... | |
 | Daniel Defoe - 1895 - 362 sider
...stockings, which he pulled out on purpose. He had his last shirt on when we found him on the island. At his first coming on board us, he had so much forgot...drank nothing but water since his being there; and 'twas some time before he could relish our victuals. He could give us an account of no other product... | |
 | Daniel Defoe - 1895 - 364 sider
...stockings, which he pulled out on purpose. He had his last shirt on when we found him on the island. At his first coming on board us, he had so much forgot...drank nothing but water since his being there; and 'twas some time before he could relish our victuals. He could give us an account of no other product... | |
 | 1889 - 898 sider
...stockings, which he pulled out on purpose. He had his last shirt on when we found him on the island. At his first coming on board us, he had so much forgot...drank nothing but water since his being there, and 'twas some time before he could relish our victuals. Such is the simple but interesting account of... | |
 | Daniel Defoe - 1899 - 364 sider
...stockings, which he pulled out on purpose. He had his last shirt on when we found him on the island. At his first coming on board us, he had so much forgot...drank nothing but water since his being there ; and 'twas some time before he could relish our victuals. He could give us an account of no other product... | |
 | Josiah Gilbert Holland, Richard Watson Gilder - 1899 - 1110 sider
...a nail. He had his last shirt on his back when found. Rogers says that when he first came on board he had "so much forgot his language, for want of use,...him, for he seemed to speak his words by halves." Nay, more curious still, " we offered him a dram, but he would not touch it, having drank nothing but... | |
 | Victoria Institute (Great Britain) - 1900 - 448 sider
...of cray-fish with a man cloathed in goat-skins, who looked wilder than the first owners of them. . . At his first coming on board us he had so much forgot...him ; for he seemed to speak his words by halves." This "degeneration" was accomplished in four years and four months. " The introduction of this conception... | |
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At his first coming on board us, he had so much forgot his language, for want of use, that we could scarce understand him, for he seemed to speak his words by halves. 
