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 |
Fra bogen
Resultater 1-5 af 45
Side 27
... deck ; and during the night we made little or no way through the water . About three o'clock in the morning ( Monday 24th ) , the wind off the land reached us , which carried the brig a few leagues farther to the southward . Early in ...
... deck ; and during the night we made little or no way through the water . About three o'clock in the morning ( Monday 24th ) , the wind off the land reached us , which carried the brig a few leagues farther to the southward . Early in ...
Side 28
... deck , and every thing in the cabin and state rooms , as safely as possible . Towards evening the weather became still more unsettled ; sometimes perfectly calm , yet the sea much agitated ; sometimes blowing a fine steady breeze from ...
... deck , and every thing in the cabin and state rooms , as safely as possible . Towards evening the weather became still more unsettled ; sometimes perfectly calm , yet the sea much agitated ; sometimes blowing a fine steady breeze from ...
Side 29
... deck and run down the ladder . I had scarcely entered the cabin , when the wind arose suddenly , and with such violence , that the brig in an instant seemed on her beam ends . At this moment I thought I heard some one fall down the ...
... deck and run down the ladder . I had scarcely entered the cabin , when the wind arose suddenly , and with such violence , that the brig in an instant seemed on her beam ends . At this moment I thought I heard some one fall down the ...
Side 30
... deck , but was not able to effect it ; the companion door would not move , and the sea was dashing over the quarter deck . I , however , got the people there to open one of the side doors a little , and I peeped out . The wind howled ...
... deck , but was not able to effect it ; the companion door would not move , and the sea was dashing over the quarter deck . I , however , got the people there to open one of the side doors a little , and I peeped out . The wind howled ...
Side 31
... deck ; but it was perfect darkness where we were , and I could not find any thing to add to my own ineffectual strength , nor could I make any one on deck attend to me ; they could not hear me for the noise made by the howling of the ...
... deck ; but it was perfect darkness where we were , and I could not find any thing to add to my own ineffectual strength , nor could I make any one on deck attend to me ; they could not hear me for the noise made by the howling of the ...
Andre udgaver - Se alle
Almindelige termer og sætninger
appeared armadillo basket beach biscuit blessed boat breakfast brig brought cabin canoe capsicums captain cave close coccos cocoa-nut grove cool couple crayfish creature dear Edward dear Eliza dear wife deck delighted Diego dinner ducks feeling feet felt Fidele finished fish fish-pot fowls gave goats ground hand happy hastened helpmate hour iguana Indian corn instantly island isthmus Jamaica labour land little dog looked melon Mira morning mullet musket nearly o'clock oakum ourselves palace peccary pieces pike pine-apple plank house plant plantation pleased poor poultry proceeded promontory pumpkin punt refreshment repast replied rest retired returned rock rocky rope Sabbath sand schooner seeds seemed shade shore side silk cotton tree smiled soon spade spot spring stood sunset thankfulness thee thicket things thought took uncle vessel walked William Goldsmith wind woodland region Xavier yams