Incidents of a Whaling Voyage: To which are Added Observations on the Scenery Manners and Customs, and Missionary Stations of the Sandwich and Society Islands : Accompanied by Numerous Lithographic PlatesD. Appleton and Company, 1841 - 360 páginas |
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... , to represent life in a somewhat novel aspect , but not by a sacrifice of truth or by an exaggerated picture . The common incidents of life , in their or- PREFACE . dinary course , rarely exhibit much of the iv PREFACE .
... , to represent life in a somewhat novel aspect , but not by a sacrifice of truth or by an exaggerated picture . The common incidents of life , in their or- PREFACE . dinary course , rarely exhibit much of the iv PREFACE .
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... exhibit much of the marvellous , and it is from the reality of their occurrence , in a great measure , that they excite permanent pleasure . A Marryatt , by weaving together the events of sev- eral voyages , and coloring the tissue with ...
... exhibit much of the marvellous , and it is from the reality of their occurrence , in a great measure , that they excite permanent pleasure . A Marryatt , by weaving together the events of sev- eral voyages , and coloring the tissue with ...
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... exhibit the liberality with which whalers recruit wherever they stop for this purpose . Late in the afternoon we left Fayal , and endeavored to beat out to sea , but failing in this attempt , as there was a strong current setting in ...
... exhibit the liberality with which whalers recruit wherever they stop for this purpose . Late in the afternoon we left Fayal , and endeavored to beat out to sea , but failing in this attempt , as there was a strong current setting in ...
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... exhibition of 1833 , has excited so much attention among astronomers . Last Wednesday was the anniver- sary of this interesting event , and I had been looking forward to its recurrence with no ordinary feelings of interest ...
... exhibition of 1833 , has excited so much attention among astronomers . Last Wednesday was the anniver- sary of this interesting event , and I had been looking forward to its recurrence with no ordinary feelings of interest ...
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... exhibition of this wonderful phenomenon has been denied me , I have often pictured to myself the scientific excitement that has undoubtedly occurred at New Haven ; and it has been to me a pleasing thought that though far away from home ...
... exhibition of this wonderful phenomenon has been denied me , I have often pictured to myself the scientific excitement that has undoubtedly occurred at New Haven ; and it has been to me a pleasing thought that though far away from home ...
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Página 117 - Africa, others run the longitude and pursue their gigantic game along the coasts of Brazil. No sea but what is vexed by their fisheries. No climate that is not witness to their toils. Neither the perseverance of Holland, nor the...
Página 177 - And amidst the flashing and feathery foam, The stormy petrel finds a home; A home, if such a place may be For her who lives on the wide, wide sea, On the craggy ice, in the frozen air, And only seeketh her rocky lair To warm her young, and to teach them to spring At once o'er the waves on their stormy wing!
Página 117 - Neither the perseverance of Holland, nor the activity of France, nor the dexterous and firm sagacity of English enterprise, ever carried this most perilous mode of...
Página 117 - Straits, whilst we are looking for them beneath the arctic circle, we hear that they have pierced into the opposite region of polar cold, that they are at the antipodes, and engaged under the frozen serpent of the South. Falkland Island, which seemed too remote and romantic an object for the grasp of national ambition, is but a stage and resting-place in the progress of their victorious industry.
Página 177 - O'er the Deep ! O'er the Deep ! Where the whale, and the shark, and the sword-fish sleep, Outflying the blast and the driving rain, The Petrel telleth her tale — in vain ; For the mariner curseth the warning bird Who bringeth him news of the...
Página 117 - Whilst we follow them among the tumbling mountains of ice, and behold them penetrating into the deepest frozen recesses of Hudson's Bay and Davis' Straits, whilst we are looking for them beneath the Arctic Circle, we hear that they have pierced into the opposite region of polar cold; that they are at the antipodes,- and engaged under the frozen serpent of the South. Falkland...
Página 134 - The ship was then going with about the same velocity. His appearance and attitude gave us at first no alarm, but while I stood watching his movements and observing him, but a ship's length off, coming down for us with great...
Página 117 - We know that while some of them draw the line and strike the harpoon on the coast of Africa, others run the longitude, and pursue their gigantic game along the coast of Brazil. No sea but what is vexed by their fisheries. No climate that is not witness to their toils.
Página 134 - After a few moments' reflection, and recovering in some measure from the sudden consternation that had seized us, I, of course, concluded that he had stove a hole in the ship, and that it would be necessary to set the pumps going. Accordingly they were rigged, but had not been in operation more than one minute, before...
Página 134 - ... he gave us such an appalling and tremendous jar, as nearly threw us all on our faces. The ship brought up as suddenly and violently as if she had struck a rock, and trembled for a few seconds like a leaf. We looked at each other with perfect amazement, deprived almost of the power of speech. Many minutes elapsed before we were able to realize the dreadful accident; during which time he passed under the ship, grazing her keel as he went along, came up alongside of her to leeward, and lay on the...