Crusoe's Island: A Ramble in the Footsteps of Alexander Selkirk. With Sketches of Adventure in California and WashoeHarper & brothers, 1871 - 436 páginas |
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... shores , whether they abounded in bays or not , and if so where any safe place of landing could be found , which made us doubtful how to steer . Clouds were gathering all over the horizon ; a few stars shone out dimly overhead , and the ...
... shores , whether they abounded in bays or not , and if so where any safe place of landing could be found , which made us doubtful how to steer . Clouds were gathering all over the horizon ; a few stars shone out dimly overhead , and the ...
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... shore at all hazards . The more prudent of us protested against the folly of this course , well knowing that we would be capsized in the surf and dashed to pieces on the rocks . Here we found the evils of having too many masters in an ...
... shore at all hazards . The more prudent of us protested against the folly of this course , well knowing that we would be capsized in the surf and dashed to pieces on the rocks . Here we found the evils of having too many masters in an ...
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... shore , but it was only the moaning of the tempest upon the cliffs , and the frightful beating of the surf below . We seemed almost to be able to touch the black and rug- ged wall of rocks that stood up out of the sea , and the shock of ...
... shore , but it was only the moaning of the tempest upon the cliffs , and the frightful beating of the surf below . We seemed almost to be able to touch the black and rug- ged wall of rocks that stood up out of the sea , and the shock of ...
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... shore ; a death - moan that forever rises out of the deep for the souls that are lost , and the hearts that can never be united with those that love them upon earth again . I thought how well it was writ by the poet- " Oh , Solitude ...
... shore ; a death - moan that forever rises out of the deep for the souls that are lost , and the hearts that can never be united with those that love them upon earth again . I thought how well it was writ by the poet- " Oh , Solitude ...
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... shores of the bay , and its measured swell floated upon the air like the voice of a distant cat- aract . Fields of verdure covered the ravines ; ruined and moss - covered walls were scattered over each emi- nence ; and the straw huts of ...
... shores of the bay , and its measured swell floated upon the air like the voice of a distant cat- aract . Fields of verdure covered the ravines ; ruined and moss - covered walls were scattered over each emi- nence ; and the straw huts of ...
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