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 xiv
... fire - arms - account of his library . - A place stoccadoed off for the live - stock . - Christmas day . - The negroes circumnavigate the second or western island . - Hurricane . - - - Guns heard in the offing . - Seaward puts up a xiv ...
... fire - arms - account of his library . - A place stoccadoed off for the live - stock . - Christmas day . - The negroes circumnavigate the second or western island . - Hurricane . - - - Guns heard in the offing . - Seaward puts up a xiv ...
Side 42
... fire ? " Here I was at a stand . There were fire - arms in the cabin , unloaded , and consequently useless : I had pistols in a trunk , blocked up in the state - room by an accumulation of things against the door , and which , therefore ...
... fire ? " Here I was at a stand . There were fire - arms in the cabin , unloaded , and consequently useless : I had pistols in a trunk , blocked up in the state - room by an accumulation of things against the door , and which , therefore ...
Side 43
... fire closer to the rock , into the shade ; and , by the aid of plenty of dry sticks , made a large blaze there , on the embers of which the fowls were to be dressed . " We have no water , " she said , " and I am indeed very thirsty ...
... fire closer to the rock , into the shade ; and , by the aid of plenty of dry sticks , made a large blaze there , on the embers of which the fowls were to be dressed . " We have no water , " she said , " and I am indeed very thirsty ...
Side 45
... fire - arms ; saying , we would walk under the rocks , to the further side of the isthmus . do so , if you wish it , " she replied ; " but I think it were better to defer it until the morning ; and in the mean time we can do something ...
... fire - arms ; saying , we would walk under the rocks , to the further side of the isthmus . do so , if you wish it , " she replied ; " but I think it were better to defer it until the morning ; and in the mean time we can do something ...
Side 49
... fire on board , without a fire - place , lest we should burn the ship ; and we felt unwilling to trust ourselves on shore to cook our victuals : but the last was the least dangerous alternative , and being armed , we resolved not to ...
... fire on board , without a fire - place , lest we should burn the ship ; and we felt unwilling to trust ourselves on shore to cook our victuals : but the last was the least dangerous alternative , and being armed , we resolved not to ...
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