| 1861 - 850 sider
...her body as big as one of us j her skin very white ; and long haire downe behinde, of colour blacke ; in her going downe they saw her tayle, which was like...tayle of a porposse and speckled like a macrell." Hudson's sailors must have been thrifty men if only two could spare the time for seeing a seal, thus... | |
| Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1868 - 310 sider
...us ; her skin very white, and long haire hanging downe behind, of colour blacke ; in her going down they saw her tayle, which was like the tayle of a porposse, and speckled like a macrell." Hudson evidently was not so credulous as Raleigh ; for while the latter, with his customary vehemence... | |
| Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1868 - 360 sider
...us ; her skin very white, and long haire hanging downe behind, of colour blacke; in her going down they saw her tayle, which was like the tayle of a porposse, and speckled like a macrell." Hudson evidently was not so credulous as Raleigh ; for while the latter, with his customary vehemence... | |
| 1909 - 1106 sider
...upper part of her body was like a woman. " A sea came and overturned her," and " in her going down they saw her tayle, which was like the tayle of a porposse, and speckled like a macrell." It is one of the misfortunes of a less imaginative age that this vision which appeared to Thomas Hilles... | |
| Frederick Whymper - 1877 - 364 sider
...body as big as one of us ; her skin very white, and long haire hanging down behind, of colour blacke; in her going downe they saw her tayle, which was like the tayle of a porposse, and speeckled like a macrell. Their names that saw her were Thomas Hilles and Robert Rayner." All this... | |
| Samuel Purchas - 1906 - 618 sider
...as big as one of us ; her skin very white ; and long haire hanging downe behind, of colour blacke : in her going downe they saw her tayle, which was like...tayle of a Porposse, and speckled like a Macrell. Their names that saw her, were Thomas Hilles and Robert Rayner. The sixteenth, cleere weather, the... | |
| Herbert G. Smith - 1906 - 334 sider
...body as big as one of us; her skin very white; and long haire hanging downe behind of colour blacke; in her going downe they saw her tayle, which was like...the tayle of a Porposse and speckled like a macrell. Their names that saw her, were Thomas Hilles, and Robert Raynor." So the sturdy, truth-loving captain... | |
| Samuel Purchas - 1906 - 612 sider
...as big as one of us ; her skin very white ; and long haire hanging downe behind, of colour blacke : in her going downe they saw her tayle, which was like...tayle of a Porposse, and speckled like a Macrell. Their names that saw her, were Thomas Hilles and Robert Rayner. The sixteenth, cleere weather, the... | |
| Thomas Allibone Janvier - 1909 - 194 sider
...as big as one of us. Her skin very white, and long haire hanging downe behinde of 21 colour blacke. In her going downe they saw her tayle, which was like...tayle of a porposse, and speckled like a macrell. Their names that saw her were Thomas Hilles and Robert Rayner." I am sorry to say that the too-conscientious... | |
| Thomas Allibone Janvier - 1909 - 204 sider
...as big as one of us. Her skin very white, and long haire hanging downe behinde of 21 colour blacke. In her going downe they saw her tayle, which was like...the tayle of a porposse, and speckled like a macrelL Their names that saw her were Thomas Hilles and Robert Rayner." I am sorry to say that the too-conscientious... | |
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