A Voyage to Cadiz and Gibraltar, Up the Mediterranean to Sicily and Malta, in 1810 & II, Including a Description of Sicily and the Lipari Islands, and an Excursion in Portugal, Volym 1J. Harding, 1815 |
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A Voyage to Cadiz and Gibraltar, Up the Mediterranean to Sicily and ..., Volym 1 Sir George Cockburn Fragmentarisk förhandsgranskning - 1815 |
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Sida 37 - And falling into a place where two seas met, they ran the ship aground; and the forepart stuck fast, and remained unmoveable, but the hinder part was broken with the violence of the waves. 42 And the soldiers' counsel was to kill the prisoners, lest any of them should swim out, and escape.
Sida 37 - And the barbarous people shewed us no little kindness ; for they kindled a fire, and received us every one, because of the present rain, and because of the cold.
Sida 120 - ... and multiplied sounds. I then perceived with how much truth and resemblance of nature Homer and Virgil, in their personifications of Scylla, had portrayed this scene, by describing the monster they drew, as lurking in the darkness of a vast cavern, surrounded by ravenous barking mastiffs and wolves.
Sida 119 - proceeded in a small boat to Scylla. This is a lofty rock which rises almost perpendicularly from the sea, on the shore of Calabria, and beyond which is the small city of the same name. Though there was scarcely any wind, I began to hear, two miles before I came to the rock, a murmur and a noise, like a confused barking of dogs, and on a nearer approach readily discovered the cause.
Sida 121 - Messina, who, at the report of guns fired as signals of distress from any vessel, hasten to its assistance, and tow it with one of their light boats. The current, where it is strongest, does not extend over the whole strait, but winds through it in intricate meanders, with the course of which these men are perfectly acquainted, and are thus able to guide the ship in such a manner as to avoid it. Should the pilot, however, confiding in his own skill, contemn or neglect this assistance, however great...
Sida 121 - ... full sail, and pass through with such rapidity that they seem to fly over the water. But when the current runs from south to north, and the north wind blows hard at the same time, the ship, which expected easily to pass the Strait with the wind in its stern, on its entering the channel is resisted by the opposite current, and, impelled by two forces in contrary directions, is at length dashed on the rock of Scylla, or driven on the...
Sida 120 - This rock, in its lower parts, contains a number of caverns, one of the largest of which is called by the people there, Dragara. The waves, when in the least agitated, rushing into these caverns, break, dash, and throw up frothy bubbles, and thus occasion these varied and multiplied sounds.
Sida 117 - The current ascends or descends at the rising or setting of the moon, and continues for six hours. In the interval between each ascent or descent there is a calm which lasts at least a quarter of an hour, but not longer than an hour. Afterwards...
Sida 118 - When vessels of a larger size are forced into it, whatever wind they have, they cannot extricate themselves ; then sails are useless, and after having been for some time tossed about by the waves, if they are not assisted by the pilots of the country, who know how to bring them out of the force of the current, they are furiously driven upon the neighbouring shore of the Lanterna, where they are helplessly wrecked.''* This, then, may serve to give some idea of Scylla and Charybdis.
Sida xii - ... us. We feel as he did in all his inconveniences and distresses, and derive, from the whole account of small particulars as well as great, a very valuable share and species of experience. The style of voyages and travels should be plain, simple, perspicuous, and unaffected. I think they seldom appear to great advantage, but when written in the words of the traveller or voyager, at the very time at which the circumstances which he relates occurred. They have then the native hue and complexion of...