Four Years in the Government Exploring Expedition: Commanded by Captain Charles Wilkes, to the Island of Madeira, Cape Verd Island, Brazil ...J. M. Fairchild, 1855 - 371 頁 |
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afternoon American anchor appeared arrived Australia beach beautiful boats Callao canoe Captain Hudson Captain Wilkes chiefs coast cocoa-nut color commenced consisted covered crew dress early hour east Emmons encampment expedition feet Fejee fire Flying Fish ground harbor height hills houses Hudson's Bay Company hundred huts Indians inhabitants interior island January killed king land large number latitude Levuka Lieutenant longitude mats miles missionaries morning mountains muskets natives night noon Northwest Company o'clock observed officers party passed Peacock piece Pomare II Porpoise present principal Raraka reached received reef residing Rewa river rocks sail sailors schooner seen sent ship shore side sight soil soon South Wales southward squadron stood stream sunset survey Tahiti tion Tonga town trees tribes Tutuilla under-way Underwood valleys Valparaiso vegetation vessels Vincennes weather westward Wilkes Henry wind women yards
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第 308 頁 - made a finer end, and went away an it had been any christom child; a' parted even just between twelve and one, even at the turning o' the tide : for after I saw him fumble with the sheets and play with flowers and smile upon his fingers...
第 207 頁 - As when the moon, refulgent lamp of night, O'er Heaven's clear azure spreads her sacred light, When not a breath disturbs the deep serene, And not a cloud o'ercasts the solemn scene ; Around her throne the vivid planets roll, And stars unnumber'd gild the glowing pole, O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed, And tip with silver every mountain's head...
第 190 頁 - No, never shall I lose the trace Of what I've felt in this bright place. And, should my spirit's hope grow weak, Should I, oh God, e'er doubt thy power, This mighty scene again I'll seek, At the same calm and glowing hour, And here, at the sublimest shrine That Nature ever rear'd to Thee, Rekindle all that hope divine, And feel my immortality ! EXTRACT II.
第 342 頁 - ... thence northward along the western line of New Mexico until it intersects the first branch of the river Gila (or if it should not intersect any branch of that river, then to the point on the said line nearest to such branch, and thence in a direct line to the same) ; thence down the middle of the said branch and of the said river until it empties into the Rio Colorado ; thence across the Rio Colorado, following the division line between Upper and Lower California, to the Pacific Ocean.
第 342 頁 - Paso) to its western termination; thence northward along the western line of New Mexico until it intersects the first branch of the river Gila...
第 263 頁 - Or lose thyself in the continuous woods Where rolls the Oregon, and hears no sound Save his own dashings; yet the dead are there...
第 217 頁 - And lose them in each other, as appears In every bud that blows ? If fancy then Unequal, fail beneath the pleasing task, Ah ! what shall language do...
第 330 頁 - I am making myself as strong as possible, in the intention that if we are unjustly attacked we will fight to extremity and refuse quarter (!), trusting to our country to avenge our death.
第 167 頁 - Resolved, That the officers and members of the House of Representatives will wear the usual badge of mourning for thirty days, as a testimony of the profound respect this House entertains for the memory of the deceased.
第 112 頁 - Frost sports wonderfully with these icebergs, and gives them majestic as well as other most singular forms. Masses have been seen assuming the shape of a Gothic church, with arched windows and doors, and all the rich drapery of that style, composed of what an Arabian tale •would scarcely dare to relate, of crystal of the richest sapphirine blue; tables with one or more feet; and often immense flat-roofed temples, like those of Luxor on the Nile, supported by round transparent columns of cwrulean...