 | Frederick Harcourt Kitchin - 1926 - 350 sider
...complaint and without reserves. They agreed to submit to the severest rationing, and to live, or starve, on one ounce of bread and a quarter of a pint of water a day. Spread to this transparent thinness, Bligh reckoned that his supplies would last eight weeks.... | |
 | William Bligh, Edward Christian - 2001 - 290 sider
...but what I might find at New Holland, until I came to Timor, a distance of full 1200 leagues, where was a Dutch settlement, but in what part of the island...examining our stock of provisions, and recommending this as a sacred promise for ever to their memory, we bore away across a sea, where the navigation... | |
 | Richard Garnett - 1899 - 432 sider
...an allowance, which, on calculation of their resources, the commander informed them would not exceed one ounce of bread, and a quarter of a pint of water, per day. Recommending them, therefore, in the most solemn manner, not to depart from their promise in this respect,... | |
 | 1853 - 854 sider
...their voyage on the 2d of May ; all Mr. Bligh's company having solemnly promised him to be content with one ounce of bread and a quarter of a pint of water per day «piece. One half of them were to be on the look-out, whilo the others lay down in the boat's bottom... | |
 | Thomas Fleming Day - 1913 - 754 sider
...there was a Dutch settlement, they all agreed to live upon one ounce of bread and a quarterof-a-pint of water per day. "Therefore after examining our stock of provisions and recommending this as a sacred promise forever to their memory, we bore away across a sea where the navigation is... | |
 | 1820 - 714 sider
...and his companions, after a voyage bf 1200 leagues (during which the only subsistence rh y had was one ounce of bread and a quarter of a pint of water each day), had Ihe good fortune to arrive •safe at th» Dutch settlement of Cupan, in the {slamlol... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1820 - 746 sider
...and his companions, after a voyage of 1200 leagues, (during which the only subsistence they had was one ounce of bread and a quarter of a pint of water each per day,) had the good fortune to arrive safe at the Dutch settlement of Cupan, in the island... | |
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Therefore, after examining our stock of provisions, and recommending to them, in the most solemu manner, not to depart from their promise, we bore away across a sea, where the navigation is but little known, in a small boat, twenty-three feet long from... 
