Stories of Voyages: Being Authentic Narratives of the Most Celebrated Voyages from Columbus to Parry, with Accounts of Remarkable Shipwrecks and Naval AdventuresJ. A. Noble, 1839 - 288 oldal |
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Adventure Alexander Selkirk America anchored appeared approached arrived Batavia Bligh boat Brazil bullet car Byron canoes Cape Horn Captain Carteret Captain Cook Captain Rogers Captain Wallis Captain Wilson casks Centurion coast cocoa-nuts Columbus command commodore continued crew Dampier danger days afterwards deck directed his course discovered Drake dreadful England English escape expedition fire four gold harbor hope hundred Indians inhabitants Juan Fernandez killed king La Perouse land latitude leagues Lee Boo length lieutenant months morning musket natives navigators nearly night northward obtained officers Otaheite Pacific Ocean Paita passed Perouse Pitcairn's Island pounds weight proceeded provisions reached refitted repair rocks sailed sailors scurvy seamen seen seized Selkirk sent ship's shore sight soon Spain Spaniards Spanish squadron steered storm Straits of Magellan supply tain taken Tinian tion town trees Tupia vessel voyage weather wind wood wreck Zealand
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182. oldal - Kanynah and his brother were both very active in keeping order among them. In a little time, however, the Indians were observed arming themselves with long spears, clubs, and daggers, and putting on thick mats, which they use as armour.
178. oldal - I sent Mr. Bligh, with a boat from each ship to examine it, being at this time three leagues off. Canoes now began to arrive from all parts ; so that before ten o'clock there were not fewer than a thousand about the two ships, most of them crowded with people, and well laden with hogs and other productions of the island.
226. oldal - We now, therefore, witnessed for the first time the curious phenomenon of the directive power of the needle becoming so weak as to be completely overcome by the attraction of the ship ; so that the needle might now be properly said to point to the north pole of the ship.
80. oldal - He built two huts with pimento -trees, covered them with long grass, and lined them with the skins of goats, which he killed with his gun as he wanted, so long as his powder lasted, which was but a pound ; and that being almost spent, he got fire by rubbing two sticks of pimento wood together upon his knee.
185. oldal - Indian was seen following him, but with caution and timidity : for he stopped once or twice, as if undetermined to proceed. At last he advanced upon him unawares, and with a large club, or common stake, gave him a blow on the back of the head, and then precipitately retreated.
185. oldal - As he was rising, and before he could recover his feet, another Indian stabbed him in the back of the neck with an iron dagger. He then fell into...
161. oldal - ... and certainly not by so enlightened and liberal a people as the French nation. The season of the year now rendered it necessary for our commander to return to the south, while he had yet some time to explore any land he might meet with between the New Hebrides and New Zealand; at which last place he intended to touch, that he might refresh his people, and renew his stock of wood and water for another southern course. With this view, he sailed on the...
221. oldal - ... over my head, and on every side of me, with their bright weapons, which fairly whizzed through the air within an inch of my naked body, and on every side of me, now hacking each other's arms apparently to...
184. oldal - Cook, withdrew his boat farther off, at the moment that every thing seems to have depended upon the timely exertions of those in the boats. By his own account, he mistook the signal; but be that as it may, this circumstance appears to...
84. oldal - The Spaniards had landed before he knew what they were, and they came so near him that he had much ado to escape ; for they not only shot at him, but pursued him...