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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... walked out , and left us together . My heart sunk within me . In imagination I had al- ready beheld my dear Eliza living with me in ease and affluence , enjoying the bright sunshine of my prosperity , under the patronage of my uncle . A ...
... walked out , and left us together . My heart sunk within me . In imagination I had al- ready beheld my dear Eliza living with me in ease and affluence , enjoying the bright sunshine of my prosperity , under the patronage of my uncle . A ...
Side 60
... walked with a good pace , and soon arrived at the point beyond which the gushing fountain pours out its refreshing water ; and , it being now nearly dark , we could not stop to drink , but hastened across the isthmus , and got on board ...
... walked with a good pace , and soon arrived at the point beyond which the gushing fountain pours out its refreshing water ; and , it being now nearly dark , we could not stop to drink , but hastened across the isthmus , and got on board ...
Side 64
... walked under this umbrageous foliage , towards the lake for the space of a hundred yards ; which brought us out on the south side of the rock's point , that separated this wooded region from the sandy isthmus : we observed that this ...
... walked under this umbrageous foliage , towards the lake for the space of a hundred yards ; which brought us out on the south side of the rock's point , that separated this wooded region from the sandy isthmus : we observed that this ...
Side 84
... walked down , and perceived a large fish , about the size of a cod , close in , pursuing some small fry . I instantly caught the boarding pike from my wife's hand , ( which she always carried when on our rambles , ) and in the same ...
... walked down , and perceived a large fish , about the size of a cod , close in , pursuing some small fry . I instantly caught the boarding pike from my wife's hand , ( which she always carried when on our rambles , ) and in the same ...
Side 102
... walked pleasantly without our boots . We looked at the stock , and passed over to the other side of the isthmus . The foun- tain was gushing impetuously into the brook it formed , whence it now ran like a small river into the lake . The ...
... walked pleasantly without our boots . We looked at the stock , and passed over to the other side of the isthmus . The foun- tain was gushing impetuously into the brook it formed , whence it now ran like a small river into the lake . The ...
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