Sir Edward Seward's Narrative of His Shipwreck: And Consequent Discovery of Certain Islands in the Caribbean Sea: with a Detail of Many Extraordinary and Highly Interesting Events in His Life, from the Year 1733 to 1749, as Written in His Own Diary, Bind 1Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1831 |
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Side xiii
... boat . Catches mullet . He and his wife on the verge of a quarrel . Young goats . A contrivance to get at the cocoa - nuts without cutting down the trees . Eliza tries to make a basket . A project sine die . -An apologue , illustrative ...
... boat . Catches mullet . He and his wife on the verge of a quarrel . Young goats . A contrivance to get at the cocoa - nuts without cutting down the trees . Eliza tries to make a basket . A project sine die . -An apologue , illustrative ...
Side xv
... boat from the guarda costa.- Two Bermudian blacks taken . Seaward secures his treasure talks with the Virginian captain concerning a passage to Ja- maica . A slight survey of the island's channel . The schooner repaired . Seaward ...
... boat from the guarda costa.- Two Bermudian blacks taken . Seaward secures his treasure talks with the Virginian captain concerning a passage to Ja- maica . A slight survey of the island's channel . The schooner repaired . Seaward ...
Side 22
... boat , to join the brig at Kingroad , Eliza was charmed by the scenery on each side of the banks . St. Vincent's rocks pre- sented a sublime object on the right side ; and those on the left , covered with wood from the water's edge to ...
... boat , to join the brig at Kingroad , Eliza was charmed by the scenery on each side of the banks . St. Vincent's rocks pre- sented a sublime object on the right side ; and those on the left , covered with wood from the water's edge to ...
Side 31
... boat over the gunwale , to escape , if pos- sible , from the perishing vessel . I now became frantic ; I knocked with my hands , and hallooed with all my power , but to no purpose . By accident I stumbled over an empty stone bottle at ...
... boat over the gunwale , to escape , if pos- sible , from the perishing vessel . I now became frantic ; I knocked with my hands , and hallooed with all my power , but to no purpose . By accident I stumbled over an empty stone bottle at ...
Side 32
... boat might live under her lee ; and I expected the captain would wait for us there a little . The mo- ment I rejoined my dear wife , I urged her instantly to accompany me to the deck , telling her our situa- tion . " No ! " said she ...
... boat might live under her lee ; and I expected the captain would wait for us there a little . The mo- ment I rejoined my dear wife , I urged her instantly to accompany me to the deck , telling her our situa- tion . " No ! " said she ...
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