 | 1879 - 322 oldal
...point, it yielded to the current of the Chiquito, and was swept into the whirlpool. White felt now that all further exertion was useless, and dropping...must be plunged into the boiling vortex. He waited, he thinks, for some minutes, when, feeling a strange swinging sensation, he looked up to find that... | |
 | Frederick Samuel Dellenbaugh - 1902 - 470 oldal
...White now felt that further exertion was useless, and amidst the "gurgling " waters closed his eyes for some minutes, when, feeling a strange swinging...circling round the whirlpool, sometimes close to the terrible vortex, etc. He thought he fainted. He was nothing if not dramatic. When he recovered it was... | |
 | Thomas Edwin Farish - 1918 - 400 oldal
...point, it yielded to the current of the Chiquito and was swept into the whirlpool. "White felt now that all further exertion was useless, and dropping...sensation, he opened them and found that he was circling around the whirlpool, sometimes close to the vortex, and at others thrown back by some invisible cause... | |
 | Lewis Ransome Freeman - 1923 - 550 oldal
..."The Maiden's Prayer" on the strings and wood-winds! "White now felt that all further exertions were useless, and, dropping his paddle, he clasped his...must be plunged into the boiling vortex. He waited, he thinks, for some minutes, when, feeling a strange, swimming sensation, he looked up to find that... | |
 | 1917 - 924 oldal
...current of the Chiquito and was swept into the whirlpool. White felt now that all further exertions was useless, and, dropping his paddle, he clasped...must be plunged into the boiling vortex. He waited, he thinks, for some minutes, when, feeling a strange, swimming sensation, he looked up to find that... | |
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... angles across his course from the Chiquito. When he reached the mouth of the latter stream the raft suddenly stopped, and swinging round for an instant as if balanced on a point, it yielded to the current of the Chiquito, and was swept into the whirlpool.... 