 | William Dampier - 1703 - 774 σελίδες
...after our arrival 184 they anchor at Guam. • .'» ivzl!it Guam, Ah! Dampier, you would bai made toem but a poor Meal ^ for I was as lean as the Captain was lufty and flefhy. The Wind was at ENE: and the Land bore at NNE therefore we flood to the Northward,... | |
 | David Laing Purves - 1874 - 856 σελίδες
...promoting the undertaking this voyage. This made Captain Swan Bay to me after our arrival at Guam, "Ah! Dampier, you would have made them but a poor...I was as lean as the Captain was lusty and fleshy. The wind was at ENE. and the land bore NNE. ; therefore wo stood to the northward till we brought the... | |
 | William Henry Giles Kingston - 1880 - 610 σελίδες
...for three days more. He was a stout, lusty man, and when the danger was past he remarked, laughing, " Ah, Dampier, you would have made them but a poor meal ! " for the latter was as lean as the captain was fat. The bark being ahead, passed over a shoal with only... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1882 - 428 σελίδες
...interminable enterprise. Wherefore said Captain Swan to our chronicler, after their arrival at Guam — "Ah, Dampier, you would have made them but a poor meal ! " for Dampier was as lean and meagre as the captain was lusty and fleshy. Guam, to the wave-worn wanderers,... | |
 | Leslie Stephen - 1888 - 496 σελίδες
...promoting the undertaking this voyage. This made Captain Swan say to me after our arrival at Guam, " Ah ! Dampier, you would have made them but a poor...was as lean as the captain was lusty and fleshy.' After twelve days' stay among the Ladrones, they pushed on to the Philippine Islands, which they reached... | |
 | William Clark Russell - 1889 - 212 σελίδες
...promoting the undertaking of this Voyage. This made Captain Swan say to me after our arrival at Guam, Ah ! Dampier, you would have made them but a poor...was as Lean as the Captain was lusty and fleshy." Dampier's chapters are now wholly made up of description. He is copious in his accounts of tho natives,... | |
 | William Clark Russell - 1889 - 244 σελίδες
...This made Captain Swan say to me after our arrival at Guam, Ah t Dampier, you would have made them hit a poor Meal, for I was as Lean as the Captain was lusty and fleshy." Dampier's chapters are now wholly made t1p of description. He is copious in his accounts of the natives,... | |
 | George Atherton Aitken - 1898 - 446 σελίδες
...promoting the undertaking this voyage. This made Captain Swan say to me, after our arrival at Guam, 'Ah, Dampier, you would have made them but a poor...was as lean as the captain was lusty and fleshy." eat ; and (I speak it with shame) I am afraid, gentlemen, I should poison you." This speech had a good... | |
 | George Atherton Aitken - 1898 - 439 σελίδες
...promoting the undertaking this voyage. This made Captain Swan say to me, after our arrival at Guam, * Ah, Dampier, you would have made them but a poor meal...was as lean as the captain was lusty and fleshy." eat ; and (I speak it with shame) I am afraid, gentlemen, I should poison you." This speech had a good... | |
 | Emma Helen Blair, James Alexander Robertson - 1906 - 308 σελίδες
...arrival at Guam, 118 The latitude of the island of Guam is 13° 27' North and its longitude 145° East. Ah \ Dampier, you would have made them but a poor...I was as lean as the Captain was lusty and fleshy. The Wind was at ENE and the Land bore at NNE therefore we stood to the Northward, till we brought the... | |
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Ah ! Dampier, you would have made them but a poor meal ; " for I was as lean as the captain was lusty and fleshy. 
