Arctic Rovings: Or, The Adventures of a New Bedford Boy on Sea and LandA. Tompkins, 1861 - 171 頁 The journal of a teenage boy aboard a whaling vessel, relating his winter in Siberia and numerous other adventures. |
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第 5 頁
... hope , by an honest confession of my inability to do my subject jus- tice , at least in a literary point of view , to disarm criti- cism , and enlist the sympathies of the public in my behalf . If the kind reader will but remember that ...
... hope , by an honest confession of my inability to do my subject jus- tice , at least in a literary point of view , to disarm criti- cism , and enlist the sympathies of the public in my behalf . If the kind reader will but remember that ...
第 6 頁
... hope that the plain statement of facts in regard to the severe discipline sometimes exer- cised on shipboard , contained in these pages , may have the effect to open the eyes of the public to the condi- tion of seamen in the whaling ...
... hope that the plain statement of facts in regard to the severe discipline sometimes exer- cised on shipboard , contained in these pages , may have the effect to open the eyes of the public to the condi- tion of seamen in the whaling ...
第 11 頁
... into a fiercer flame ; and , long cre my school days were over , I had firmly re- solved that I would become a sailor ! My fondest hope for the future , was that I might one day command a ship ; and it seemed to BY SEA AND LAND . 11.
... into a fiercer flame ; and , long cre my school days were over , I had firmly re- solved that I would become a sailor ! My fondest hope for the future , was that I might one day command a ship ; and it seemed to BY SEA AND LAND . 11.
第 33 頁
... the top - gallant sails , courses and main royal were set , and the helm being put up , we stood out toward the open sea , in the hope of finding some channel through which to escape the floes and bergs BY SEA AND LAND . 33.
... the top - gallant sails , courses and main royal were set , and the helm being put up , we stood out toward the open sea , in the hope of finding some channel through which to escape the floes and bergs BY SEA AND LAND . 33.
第 65 頁
... idea had taken possession of my mind ; an idea which , at first , I scarcely dared to entertain , lest my new born hope should result in bitter disappointment ; but which , as the evening hours passed on , BY SEA AND LAND . 65.
... idea had taken possession of my mind ; an idea which , at first , I scarcely dared to entertain , lest my new born hope should result in bitter disappointment ; but which , as the evening hours passed on , BY SEA AND LAND . 65.
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第 40 頁 - As cold waters to a thirsty soul, so is good news from a far country.
第 76 頁 - Oft in the stilly night Ere slumber's chain has bound me, Fond Memory brings the light Of other days around me : The smiles, the tears Of boyhood's years, The words of love then spoken ; The eyes that shone, Now dimm'd and gone, The cheerful hearts now broken ! Thus in the stilly night Ere slumber's chain has bound me, Sad Memory brings the light Of other days around me.
第 116 頁 - ... despotic rule, however, of the king was so irritating and oppressive that many of them sought homes of greater freedom in the inhospitable islands of the northern seas. Among the rest, Iceland, having been discovered a short time before, was colonized by them. This event occurred about the year 874. Notwithstanding the severity of the climate and the sterility of * the soil, the colony rapidly increased in numbers and wealth, and an active commerce sprung up with the mother country, and was successfully...
第 11 頁 - ... put your trust in Him he will never leave you nor forsake you. May lie who " holds the waters in the hollow of his hand...