A Description of Pitcairn's Island and Its Inhabitants: With an Authentic Account of the Mutiny of the Ship Bounty, and of the Subsequent Fortunes of the MutineersHarper, 1832 - 303 sidor |
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... them , Wallis suspected the islanders had a design to attack them , and , on this mere suspicion , ordered the boats by signal to come on board , " and at the same time , " he says , " to intimidate the Indians , I fired 16 OTAHEITE .
... them , Wallis suspected the islanders had a design to attack them , and , on this mere suspicion , ordered the boats by signal to come on board , " and at the same time , " he says , " to intimidate the Indians , I fired 16 OTAHEITE .
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... says , " to intimidate the Indians , I fired a nine- pounder over their heads . " This , as might have been imagined , startled the islanders , but did not prevent them from attempting immediately to cut off the cutter , as she was ...
... says , " to intimidate the Indians , I fired a nine- pounder over their heads . " This , as might have been imagined , startled the islanders , but did not prevent them from attempting immediately to cut off the cutter , as she was ...
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... says Captain Wallis , " till night , and it was then with the greatest difficulty that she could be prevailed upon to go on shore . When she was told that the boat was ready , she threw herself down upon the arm - chest , 24 OTAHEITE .
... says Captain Wallis , " till night , and it was then with the greatest difficulty that she could be prevailed upon to go on shore . When she was told that the boat was ready , she threw herself down upon the arm - chest , 24 OTAHEITE .
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... says Captain Wallis , " in the most affection- ate manner , and with many tears ; all her attendants also expressed great sorrow at our departure . In a few minutes she came into the bow of her canoe , where she sat weeping with ...
... says Captain Wallis , " in the most affection- ate manner , and with many tears ; all her attendants also expressed great sorrow at our departure . In a few minutes she came into the bow of her canoe , where she sat weeping with ...
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... says Lieut . Cook , thought himself fortu- nate in being offered a place by Oberea in her own canoe , and , wishing his friends a good night , took his leave . He went to rest early , according to the custom of the country ; and taking ...
... says Lieut . Cook , thought himself fortu- nate in being offered a place by Oberea in her own canoe , and , wishing his friends a good night , took his leave . He went to rest early , according to the custom of the country ; and taking ...
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Sida 152 - Louder than the loud ocean, like a crash Of echoing thunder; and then all was hush'd, Save the wild wind and the remorseless dash Of billows; but at intervals there gush'd, Accompanied with a convulsive splash, A solitary shriek, the bubbling cry Of some strong swimmer in his agony.
Sida 63 - Horror and doubt distract His troubled thoughts, and from the bottom stir The hell within him ; for within him Hell He brings, and round about him, nor from Hell One step, no more than from himself, can fly By change of place.
Sida 214 - Well believe this, No ceremony that to great ones 'longs, Not the king's crown, nor the deputed sword, The marshal's truncheon, nor the judge's robe, Become them with one half so good a grace, As mercy does.
Sida 134 - Put the wild waters in this roar, allay them. The sky, it seems, would pour down stinking pitch, But that the sea, mounting to the welkin's cheek, Dashes the fire out.
Sida 207 - Yet, if I am found guilty this day, they will not construe it, I trust, as the least disrespect offered to their discernment and opinion, if I solemnly declare that my heart will rely with confidence in its own innocence, until that awful period when my spirit shall be about to be separated from my body to take its everlasting flight, and be ushered into the presence of that unerring Judge, before whom all hearts are open and from whom no secrets are hid.
Sida 48 - The bread-tree, which, without the ploughshare, yields The unreap'd harvest of unfurrow'd fields, And bakes its unadulterated loaves Without a furnace in unpurchased groves, And flings off famine from its fertile breast, A priceless market for the gathering guest...
Sida 152 - And down she suck'd with her the whirling wave, Like one who grapples with his enemy, And strives to strangle him before he die.
Sida 69 - Notwithstanding the roughness with which I was treated the remembrance of past kindnesses produced some signs of remorse in Christian. When they were forcing me out of the ship I asked him if this treatment was a proper return for the many instances he had received of my friendship? he appeared disturbed at my question and answered with much emotion: "That, captain Bligh, that is the thing; I am in hell, I am in hell.
Sida 250 - Pacific islands; his only dress was a piece of cloth round his loins, and a straw hat ornamented with the black feathers of the domestic fowl. "With a great share of good humour...
Sida 214 - ... the commissioners for executing the office of Lord High Admiral of Great Britain and Ireland...