The Cradle of the Deep: An Account of a Voyage to the West IndiesJ. Murray, 1920 - 378 sider |
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admiral anchor arms Barbados Bartholomew Sharp beach blue boats Boca Bridgetown British buccaneers cabin called captain Carlisle Bay Cartagena Castries CHARLOTTE BRONTË church cliff coast colony colour Columbus crater curious cutlass dead deck Dominica Drake dust England English eyes face famous feet fighting fire fleet French garden green grey Gulf of Paria guns hand harbour hill houses island jungle Kitts land London look Lucia Martinique miles Morne Fortuné mountain mule negro night Nombre de Dios palms picturesque Pierre pirate Pitch Lake Port of Spain Port Royal Porto Bello Puerto Rico reached river rock roof ruins sailed San Domingo San Juan seen shadows ship shore side sight Spain Spaniards spot stands steamer Stede Bonnet stone strange streets summit tower trees Trinidad tropics voyage walls West Indian West Indies wind wood yellow
Populære avsnitt
Side 75 - ... until they be all shining from the foot to the head; and in this sort they sit drinking by twenties and hundreds, and continue in drunkenness sometimes six or seven days together.
Side 177 - All the servants were there in the hall — all the dear friends — all the young ladies — the dancing-master who had just arrived ; and there was such a scuffling, and hugging, and kissing, and crying, with the hysterical yoops of Miss Swartz, the parlour-boarder, from her room, as no pen can depict, and as the tender heart would fain pass over.
Side 18 - HERE LYETH YE BODY OF FERDINANDO PALEOLOGUS DESCENDED FROM YE IMPERIAL LYNE OF YE LAST CHRISTIAN EMPERORS OF GREECE CHURCHWARDEN OF THIS PARISH 1655-1656, VESTRYMAN, TWENTYE YEARS.
Side 77 - Inga, he would yield her majesty by composition so many hundred thousand pounds yearly, as should both defend all enemies abroad, and defray all expenses at home...
Side 300 - On one wall bounding the courtyard is a marble tablet with this inscription : IN THIS PLACE DWELT HORATIO NELSON YOU WHO TREAD HIS FOOTPRINTS REMEMBER HIS GLORY.
Side 75 - When they are anointed all over, certain servants of the emperor, having prepared gold made into fine powder, blow it thorough hollow canes upon their naked bodies, until they be all shining from the foot to the head...
Side 256 - Spanish commissioners held the other half, and there were constant negotiations for ransom; "but upon disagreement,'' says the English narrator, " we still spent the early mornings in firing the outmost houses ; but they being built very magnificently of stone, with high lofts, gave us no small travail to ruin them.
Side 76 - ... hard sand, easy to march on, either for horse or foot ; the deer crossing in every path ; the birds towards the evening singing on every tree with a thousand several tunes; cranes and herons of white, crimson, and carnation, perching in the river's side; the air fresh with a gentle easterly wind ; and every stone that we stooped to take up promised either gold or silver by his complexion.
Side 304 - Here, a sheer hulk, lies poor Tom Bowling, The darling of our crew; No more he'll hear the tempest howling, For death has broach'd him to. His form was of the manliest beauty, His heart was kind and soft; Faithful below he did his duty, And now he's gone aloft.
Side 126 - Negro espies his fellow at the end of the street, and rather than join him in a tete-a-tete, he will carry on a conversation with him for several hours at the top of his voice, to the unspeakable annoyance, perhaps the scandal , of all those who may occupy the intermediate houses. Should the wind blow off his hat and warn him to depart, he will continue the conversation and let some one else pick it up for him ; or if he condescend to notice the occurrence, he turns round with an air of offended...