The Nautical Magazine: A Journal of Papers on Subjects Connected with Maritime Affairs, 15. kötetBrown, Son and Ferguson, 1846 |
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... gale since noon yesterday ; our noon position placed us on the spot where a rock called the " Alceste " is placed in the Index Chart supplied by the Admiralty ; we could see no appearance of broken water , although there was a heavy sea ...
... gale since noon yesterday ; our noon position placed us on the spot where a rock called the " Alceste " is placed in the Index Chart supplied by the Admiralty ; we could see no appearance of broken water , although there was a heavy sea ...
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... gale of wind was blowing , which would have prevented our getting off to the ship for a further supply . On landing I kept a course S.S.E. by compass , passing through a valley deep with soft and yielding sand , into which sinking at ...
... gale of wind was blowing , which would have prevented our getting off to the ship for a further supply . On landing I kept a course S.S.E. by compass , passing through a valley deep with soft and yielding sand , into which sinking at ...
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... gale , vessels can easily get to sea . The rocks on the north and south ends of the bay rise abruptly and to a great height from the waters ' edge , and between them is a lower range of sand- hills , through which the points of quartz ...
... gale , vessels can easily get to sea . The rocks on the north and south ends of the bay rise abruptly and to a great height from the waters ' edge , and between them is a lower range of sand- hills , through which the points of quartz ...
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... gale from the S.W. Enderby Land . we bore away for In the afternoon of the same day we fell in with a most singular rock , or rock on an iceberg ; it appeared to be a mass of rock about 1600 tons , and the top was covered with ice and ...
... gale from the S.W. Enderby Land . we bore away for In the afternoon of the same day we fell in with a most singular rock , or rock on an iceberg ; it appeared to be a mass of rock about 1600 tons , and the top was covered with ice and ...
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... gale from the S.E. , with a heavy sea and snow ; and on the 6th March we passed a chain of numerous icebergs and loose ice . The next morning it cleared up a little , we found the ship surrounded by bergs , also a pack - ice extending ...
... gale from the S.E. , with a heavy sea and snow ; and on the 6th March we passed a chain of numerous icebergs and loose ice . The next morning it cleared up a little , we found the ship surrounded by bergs , also a pack - ice extending ...
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131. oldal - For honour travels in a strait so narrow, Where one but goes abreast: keep then the path; For emulation hath a thousand sons, That one by one pursue: If you give way, Or hedge aside from the direct forthright, Like to an enter'd tide, they all rush by, And leave you hindmost...
124. oldal - Then they cry unto the LORD in their trouble, And he bringeth them out of their distresses.
64. oldal - Though thy clime Be fickle, and thy year most part deformed, With dripping rains, or withered by a frost, I would not yet exchange thy sullen skies, And fields without a flower, for warmer France With all her vines ; nor for Ausonia's groves Of golden fruitage, and her myrtle bowers.
378. oldal - Pleas, calling upon the plaintiff to show cause why the verdict should not be set aside...
365. oldal - Thus I spoke; and speaking sigh'd; — Scarce repress'd the starting tear; — When the smiling sage reply'd — — Come, my lad, and drink some beer.
124. oldal - They mount up to the heaven, they go down again to the depths : their soul is melted because of trouble. They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wit's end.
600. oldal - Sir, — I have the honour to acquaint you, for the information of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, that...
240. oldal - ... passage across the Atlantic; who so pathetically relate the privations and hardships of the sea, where, after a day of breakfasting, lunching, dining off five courses, chatting, playing whist, and drinking...
241. oldal - The Marquesas! What strange visions of outlandish things does the very name spirit up! Naked houris — cannibal banquets — groves of cocoa-nut — coral reefs — tatooed chiefs— and bamboo temples; sunny valleys planted with bread-fruit- trees — carved canoes dancing on the flashing blue waters — savage woodlands guarded by horrible idols — heathenish rites and human sacrifices.
240. oldal - SIX MONTHS AT SEA ! Yes, reader, as I live, six months out of sight of land; cruising after the sperm-whale beneath the scorching sun of the Line, and tossed on the billows of the wide-rolling Pacific — the sky above, the sea around, and nothing else!