The young buccaneer, Τόμος 172John and Robert Maxwell[,] Milton House, Shoe Lane, Fleet Street, 1873 - 315 σελίδες |
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Admiral ain't Alice Anthony Trollope appeared bandit began Ben Smith big Griddle Blackhawk boat boatswain brigantine cabin camp Captain Gantling Carcassin Cephas Doyle CHAPTER Charles Lever Chinchea Comanche companion crew cried dark deck Dirtrick Drake Duke of Kent Eagle's Nest Edward Blake enemy exclaimed eyes face father fear fire friends hand Harry Harry Coulter head heard heart Henry Kingsley hour huge Indiaman Indian island Jabez Grunn Jones knew laughed Leaping Panther light Long Arm longboat look Margaretta Mexican midshipman minutes murder Ned Drake never night Norah Ocean Girl officers once pale passed pedlar Philip Stevens pirate pistol raft replied Edward rifle rock rope rose round ruffian sail scarcely seen ship Sir Stephen Rawdon skipper smile soon spoke stood thought trees turned vessel voice watch whispered whole party wind word yards young sailor
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Σελίδα 110 - ... rock, though no swimmer, he managed so as to scramble to it, and with great difficulty ascended it : there he remained two days with very little hopes of any relief, for he was too far off to be seen from shore ; but fortunately a boat having put off and gone in quest of wildfowl that way, discovered him making such signals as he was able, and brought him back to the island.
Σελίδα 110 - But this accident did not so discourage him but that soon after, having procured an ox's hide, used on board for sifting powder, and called a gunner's hide, by the assistance of some hoops he formed something like a canoe, in which he made several successful voyages. When the weather would permit us, we seldom failed of getting some wild-fowl, though never in any plenty, by putting off with our boats ; but this most inhospitable climate is not only deprived of the sun for the most part, by a thick,...
Σελίδα 181 - ... with his tender charge, some wag among the crowd cried out, " I expect you have found your bay filly now!" Reader, if you were ever in love, you can imagine the feelings of David at this specimen of backwoods humour; if not, I can give you no better idea of them than by using his own language : " I wish I may be shot if I know how I felt; but I tell you what, it made me feel quite all-overish.
Σελίδα 101 - ... blocks breaking, the fore-yard came down; and the greatest part of the men being disabled through fatigue and sickness, it was some time before it could be got up again. The few hands who were employed in this business now plainly saw the land on the larboard beam, bearing NW upon which the ship was driving bodily. Orders were then given immediately by the captain to sway the foreyard up, and set the foresail; which done, we wore ship with her head to the southward...
Σελίδα 103 - The scene was now greatly changed ; for many who but a few minutes before had shewn the strongest signs of despair, and were on their knees praying for mercy, imagining they were now not in that immediate danger grew very riotous, broke open every chest and box that was at hand, stove in the heads of casks of brandy and wine, as they were borne up to the hatch-ways, and got so drunk, that some of them were drowned on board, and lay floating about the decks for some days after.