Historical View of the Progress of Discovery on the More Northern Coasts of America: From the Earliest Period to the Present TimeOliver & Boyd, 1832 - 444 sider |
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... Savage Walsingham B Annes Coquin Soun Hoop Baals E CBluff Broken North B. Savage ndsons Smith Cof Hope's Advance Mosquito ThomsonBay Harb B Committee Look out Maria EAST Alipatole Portland A Gull Richmo Bear ta atory al F L E Gloucester ...
... Savage Walsingham B Annes Coquin Soun Hoop Baals E CBluff Broken North B. Savage ndsons Smith Cof Hope's Advance Mosquito ThomsonBay Harb B Committee Look out Maria EAST Alipatole Portland A Gull Richmo Bear ta atory al F L E Gloucester ...
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... animals ; whilst they conceal the parts which nature forbids us to expose with strong cords made of the sinews or entrails of fishes . On this account their appear- ance is completely savage ; yet they are very sen- CORTEREAL . 335.
... animals ; whilst they conceal the parts which nature forbids us to expose with strong cords made of the sinews or entrails of fishes . On this account their appear- ance is completely savage ; yet they are very sen- CORTEREAL . 335.
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... savage ; yet they are very sen- sible to shame , gentle in their manners , and better made in their arms , legs , and shoulders , than can be expressed . Their faces are punctured in the same manner as the Indians ; -some have six marks ...
... savage ; yet they are very sen- sible to shame , gentle in their manners , and better made in their arms , legs , and shoulders , than can be expressed . Their faces are punctured in the same manner as the Indians ; -some have six marks ...
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... savages fled in great trepidation ; yet they soon after stole back , ex- hibiting signs of much wonder and curiosity . At last , being convinced that they had nothing to fear , they completely recovered their confidence , and not only ...
... savages fled in great trepidation ; yet they soon after stole back , ex- hibiting signs of much wonder and curiosity . At last , being convinced that they had nothing to fear , they completely recovered their confidence , and not only ...
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... savages ran imme- diately to his assistance , and carried him to a little distance from the sea , where it was some time be- fore he recovered his recollection ; and great was his terror when he found himself entirely in their power ...
... savages ran imme- diately to his assistance , and carried him to a little distance from the sea , where it was some time be- fore he recovered his recollection ; and great was his terror when he found himself entirely in their power ...
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Side 266 - The merchandise of gold, and silver, and precious stones, and of pearls, and fine linen, and purple, and silk, and scarlet, and all thyine wood, and all manner vessels of ivory, and all manner vessels of most precious wood, and of brass, and iron, and marble.
Side 195 - I now mixed up some vermilion in melted grease, and inscribed, in large characters, on the South-East face of the rock on which we had slept last night, this brief memorial - 'Alexander Mackenzie, from Canada, by land, the twenty-second of July, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-three.
Side 138 - ... do. They also pitch our tents, make and mend our clothing, keep us warm at night; and, in fact, there is no such thing as travelling any considerable distance, or for any length of time, in this country without...
Side 329 - By his wide curvature of wing and sudden suspension in the air he knows him to be the fish-hawk, settling over some devoted victim of the deep. His eye kindles at the sight, and balancing himself, with half-opened wings on the branch, he watches the result. Down, rapid as an arrow from heaven, descends the distant object of his attention, the roar of its wings reaching the ear as it disappears in the deep, making the surges foam around. At this moment the eager looks of the eagle are all ardour,...
Side 351 - Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views At evening from the top of Fesole Or in Valdarno to descry new lands, .Rivers or mountains in her spotty globe; His spear, to equal which the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills to be the mast Of some great ammiral, were but a wand.
Side 329 - Tringae coursing along the sands ; trains of Ducks streaming over the surface ; silent and watchful Cranes, intent and wading ; clamorous Crows ; and all the winged multitudes that subsist by the bounty of this vast liquid magazine of nature. High over all these hovers one, whose action instantly arrests his whole attention.
Side 138 - Women were made for labour; one of them can carry or haul as much as two men can do. They also pitch our tents, make and mend our clothing, keep us warm at night ; and in fact there is no such thing as travelling any considerable distance...
Side 326 - NARRATIVE OF DISCOVERY AND ADVENTURE IN THE POLAR SEAS AND REGIONS.
Side 25 - ... of great rivers they found, which certainly could not proceed from an island. They report that this land is thickly peopled, and that the houses are built of very long beams of timber, and covered with the skins of fishes. They have brought hither along with them seven of the inhabitants, including men, women, and children ; and in the other caravel, which is looked for every hour, they are bringing fifty more. These people, in color, figure, stature, and expression, greatly resemble gypsies.
Side 329 - ... before us, scorns the humility of such situations, and seeks the most towering trees of the forest; seeming particularly attached to those prodigious cypress swamps, whose crowded giant sons stretch their bare and blasted or moss-hung arms midway to the skies. In these almost inaccessible recesses, amid ruinous piles of impending timber, his trumpet-like note and loud strokes resound through the solitary savage wilds, of which he seems the sole lord and inhabitant.