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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... whilst there is certain evidence that , almost a year before , an Eng- lish vessel had reached the shores of North America . As much obscurity hangs over the circumstances of this early voyage , and as I have arrived at a conclu- sion ...
... whilst there is certain evidence that , almost a year before , an Eng- lish vessel had reached the shores of North America . As much obscurity hangs over the circumstances of this early voyage , and as I have arrived at a conclu- sion ...
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... whilst we sat on the top of a hill commanding a view of the whole of the Lago di Garda . * * * Being then , as I said , at Caphi , where we had gone to visit our excellent friend Hieronymo , we found him on our arrival sitting in ...
... whilst we sat on the top of a hill commanding a view of the whole of the Lago di Garda . * * * Being then , as I said , at Caphi , where we had gone to visit our excellent friend Hieronymo , we found him on our arrival sitting in ...
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... 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.
... 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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... Whilst the Portuguese , the Spaniards , and the English , had early entered upon the career of dis- covery , the French , a people undoubtedly of the highest genius and enterprise , evinced an unaccount- able inactivity upon this great ...
... Whilst the Portuguese , the Spaniards , and the English , had early entered upon the career of dis- covery , the French , a people undoubtedly of the highest genius and enterprise , evinced an unaccount- able inactivity upon this great ...
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... whilst the girl was similarly loaded . On being approached both the females shrieked loudly ; but , having succeeded in pacifying them , the sailors understood , by their signs , that all the men had escaped to the woods on the ...
... whilst the girl was similarly loaded . On being approached both the females shrieked loudly ; but , having succeeded in pacifying them , the sailors understood , by their signs , that all the men had escaped to the woods on the ...
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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.