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 MutineersJ. & J. Harper, 1832 - 303 sidor |
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... sufferings of this young lady did not , how- ever , deter the late president of the Royal Society from undergoing the operation on his own person . The skill and labour which the Otaheitans bestow on their large double boats is not less ...
... sufferings of this young lady did not , how- ever , deter the late president of the Royal Society from undergoing the operation on his own person . The skill and labour which the Otaheitans bestow on their large double boats is not less ...
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... sufferings must ensue . " " In the morning of the 28th April , the north- westernmost of the Friendly Islands , called Tofoa , bearing north - east , 1 was steering to the westward , with a ship in most perfect order , all my plants in ...
... sufferings must ensue . " " In the morning of the 28th April , the north- westernmost of the Friendly Islands , called Tofoa , bearing north - east , 1 was steering to the westward , with a ship in most perfect order , all my plants in ...
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... sufferings . I served an allowance of two tea - spoonfuls of rum ; after drinking which , and having wrung our clothes and taken our breakfast of bread and water , we be- came a little refreshed . " On the evening of the 24th , the wind ...
... sufferings . I served an allowance of two tea - spoonfuls of rum ; after drinking which , and having wrung our clothes and taken our breakfast of bread and water , we be- came a little refreshed . " On the evening of the 24th , the wind ...
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... sufferings from cold and hunger , all of them retained marks of strength . Mr. Bligh had cautioned them not to touch any kind of berry or fruit that they might find ; yet it appears they were no sooner out of sight than they began to ...
... sufferings from cold and hunger , all of them retained marks of strength . Mr. Bligh had cautioned them not to touch any kind of berry or fruit that they might find ; yet it appears they were no sooner out of sight than they began to ...
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... sufferings made it not less than miraculous that this voyage , itself a miracle , should have been com- pleted , not only without the loss of a man from sickness , but with so little loss of health . respect to the preservation of our ...
... sufferings made it not less than miraculous that this voyage , itself a miracle , should have been com- pleted , not only without the loss of a man from sickness , but with so little loss of health . respect to the preservation of our ...
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Adams affectionate appeared arms arrival assistance beloved boat boatswain Bounty bread bread-fruit brother brought called canoes Captain Beechey Captain Bligh Captain Cook Captain Edwards Captain Pipon carpenter Charles Churchill Churchill circumstances clothes cocoanut commander conduct Cook court court-martial crew cutlass dear dearest death deck distress doubt endeavour feeling feet Fletcher Christian Fryer Hallet hands happy Hayward heard honour hope innocence James Morrison John John Adams kind land launch letter Lieutenant Bligh M'Intosh majesty's majesty's ship manner master-at-arms mate Matthew Quintal midshipman mind morning Morrison mutiny narrative natives NESSY HEYWOOD never night Novel observes occasion officers ordered Otaheitans Otaheite Pandora person Peter Heywood Pitcairn's Island prisoners Quintal received remained sail seamen ship ship's company shore sister situation soon Stewart sufferings tain taken thing Thomas Ellison tion told vessel vols voyage whole women young
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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...