 | Edinburgh cabinet library - 1830 - 456 页
...ice, and could communicate only by beating drums and firing muskets, till they were able to warp round and rejoin each other. They enjoyed now the most favourable...had pleased the Lord God otherwise." The captains determined to return to Waygatz, where they might confer together, and endeavour to find a more open... | |
 | Sir John Leslie, Robert Jameson, Hugh Murray - 1832 - 946 页
...ice, and could communicate only by beating drums and firing muskets, till they were able to warp round and rejoin each other. They enjoyed now the most favourable...had pleased the Lord God otherwise." The captains determined to return to Waygatz, where they might onfer together, and endeavour to find a more open... | |
 | 1843 - 408 页
...ice, and could communicate only by beating drums and firing muskets, till they were able to warp round and rejoin each other. They enjoyed now the most favourable...had pleased the Lord God otherwise." The captains determined to return to Waygatz, where they might confer together, and endeavour to find a more open... | |
 | Sir John Leslie, Hugh Murray, Robert Michael Ballantyne - 1860 - 696 页
...enjoyed now the most favourable Im cOlng breeze ; but all was rendered vain by the state of the ice. ice. " Winds we have had at will, but ice and fogs...large that they could not see beyond them from the Great dan. topmast. They were repeatedly enclosed by these masses, enveloped with dark fogs, and obliged... | |
 | mrs. A L Chisholm - 1874 - 332 页
...breezes, but all was rendered vain by the state of the ice. ' Winds we have had at will/ said they, 'but ice and fogs too much against our wills, if it had pleased the Lord otherwise.' They were often obliged to warp, that is, draw the ship - ound with a rope, from one piece... | |
 | Sir Albert Hastings Markham - 1879 - 456 页
...impossible to make any progress. In their own words, — "Winds we have had at will, but ice and fog too much against our wills, if it had pleased the Lord God otherwise." In some places, "the pieces of ice were so great, that we could not see beyond them out of the top."... | |
 | Royal Historical Society (Great Britain) - 1895 - 378 页
...mainland, coasted the island of Vaigats, and were then stopped. ' Winds we had at will, but ice and fog against our wills, if it had pleased the Lord God otherwise.' The results of the voyage were painfully disappointing. At first, when bearing through the ice into a clear... | |
 | Henry Duff Traill, James Saumarez Mann - 1909 - 432 页
...mainland, coasted the island of Vaigats, and were then stopped : " Winds we had at will, but ice and fog against our wills, if it had pleased the Lord God otherwise." The results of the voyage were painfully disappointing. Both as to the North-East and North-West passages... | |
 | Helen Saunders Wright - 1910 - 622 页
...opportunity offered, they finally got in closer communication. Of the weather, they write at this time, " Winds we have had at will, but ice and fogs too much against our wills, if it had pleased the Lord otherwise." Surrounded by fields of ice, enveloped in fog, they were obliged to make fast to icebergs,... | |
 | George Bruner Parks - 1928 - 368 页
...have at will," ran the restrained account of Pet's voyage to the northeast in 1580, "but ice and fog too much against our wills, if it had pleased the Lord God otherwise." Bravery in the face of the elements needs no further insisting. Or again I take Caesar Frederick of... | |
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At the same time the ships were separated by large fields of ice, and could communicate only by beating drums and firing muskets, till they were able to warp round and rejoin each other. They enjoyed now the most favourable breeze ; but all was rendered... 