A Narrative of Four Voyages to the South Sea, North and South Pacific Ocean, Chinese Sea, Ethiopic and Southern Atlantic Ocean, Indian and Antarctic Ocean, from the Year 1822 to 1831 ...J. & J. Harper, 1832 - 492 σελίδες |
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Συχνά εμφανιζόμενοι όροι και φράσεις
abundance anchor anchorage Angra Pequena animals Antarctic appearance arrived beach beautiful birds boats Bonavista bottom breeze Callao called canoes Cape Cape Frio Cape Horn Cape Negro Cape Pillar Captain coast continued coral course crew dangers deck distance east eastern eight elevated entrance fair weather fathoms of water feet fifteen fifty fish five formed four fathoms fresh fruit fur-seal half a mile harbour Helen's Bay hundred inhabitants kinds land latitude leagues length lying Manilla mountains natives navigator nearly never New-York north-east north-west o'clock Pacific Ocean passage passed picul port Port Famine reader reef river rocks running sail sandy schooner seal season seen ship shore situation small islands soon south-east south-south-west south-west steered strait Strait of Magellan Table Bay thousand tion took town twenty valley vegetables vessel volcanic voyage westward wind wood
Δημοφιλή αποσπάσματα
Σελίδα 129 - I AM monarch of all I survey; My right there is none to dispute; From the centre all round to the sea, I am lord of the fowl and the brute. 0 Solitude ! where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face? Better dwell in the midst of alarms Than reign in this horrible place.
Σελίδα 482 - Resolved, That by two royal charters, granted by King James the First, the colonists, aforesaid, are declared entitled to all the privileges, liberties and immunities of denizens and natural born subjects, to all intents and purposes, as if they had been abiding and born within the realm of England.
Σελίδα 420 - If I have told you of earthly things, and ye believe not, how shall ye believe, if I tell you of heavenly things ?
Σελίδα 125 - But what seems the most extraordinary in this animal, is the length of time that it can exist without food ; for I have been well assured that they have been piled away among the casks in the hold of a ship, where they have been kept eighteen months, and when killed at the expiration of that time, were found to have suffered no diminution in fatness or excellence.
Σελίδα 421 - I should tell how hurtful customs, and superstitions strange and sullen, would often scatter and dismay the credulous minds of these deluded innocents ; and then would I point out to him where now, in clustered villages, they live like brethren, social and confiding, while through the burning day, content sits basking on the cheek of toil, till laughing pastime leads them to the hour of rest — this too is mine!
Σελίδα 140 - The Lord gave and the Lord hath taken away, and blessed be the name of the Lord.
Σελίδα 150 - Catherine's and the continent; there is every variety to give beauty to the scene; handsome villages and houses built around; shores which gradually ascend in mountains, covered to their summits with trees which remain in constant verdure; a climate always temperate and healthy; small islands scattered here and there, equally covered with verdure; the soil extremely productive ; all combine to render it in appearance the most delightful country in the world/' We had at length reached the yawning...
Σελίδα 68 - ... accidental holes or crevices, it renders the whole structure compact and uniform. Meanwhile the principle of destruction has already begun its operations. The ceaseless agitation of the sea gradually wears and undermines the base of the icy mountain, till at length, by the action of its own accumulated weight, when it has perhaps attained an altitude of a thousand or even two thousand feet, it is torn from its frozen chains, and precipitated, with a tremendous plunge, into the abyss below.
Σελίδα 293 - In working into this harbour the shore on the main may be approached within two cables' length. This is a fine place for making captive the great leviathan of the ocean, the right whale, great numbers of which strike on this part of the coast about the middle of June. They are in the habit of playing about the reefs of the island, and that which runs from the continental point before mentioned ; and as the south wind generally prevails, there is no'difficulty in getting the dead whale alongside the...
Σελίδα 34 - ... saint; and the town, which is the capital of the Portuguese dominions in America, derives its name from the river, which indeed is rather an arm of the sea, for it did not appear to receive any considerable stream of fresh water: It stands on a plain, close to the shore, on the west side of the bay, at the foot of several high mountains which rise behind it. It is neither ill designed nor ill built; the houses, in general, are of stone, and two stories high; every house having, after the manner...