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 13 頁
... weather be- ing pleasant , and the wind fair , a pilot was sent on board the Condor , which was then lying in the stream , and the necessary preparations were soon made for getting under weigh . In The an- obedience to the pilot's first ...
... weather be- ing pleasant , and the wind fair , a pilot was sent on board the Condor , which was then lying in the stream , and the necessary preparations were soon made for getting under weigh . In The an- obedience to the pilot's first ...
第 24 頁
... weather followed , during which nothing transpired of particular interest to the reader . On the 20th of September we arrived off the Flores , having seen nothing of the whale species as yet , but a few black fish , none of which ...
... weather followed , during which nothing transpired of particular interest to the reader . On the 20th of September we arrived off the Flores , having seen nothing of the whale species as yet , but a few black fish , none of which ...
第 26 頁
... weather common to that tempestuous locality . The Condor was kept for several days under close reefed fore and main top - sails , reefed spanker , and fore - top - mast stay - sail ; and on more than one occasion , was hove to under ...
... weather common to that tempestuous locality . The Condor was kept for several days under close reefed fore and main top - sails , reefed spanker , and fore - top - mast stay - sail ; and on more than one occasion , was hove to under ...
第 27 頁
... weather favoring us to a remarkable degree , un- til we had sighted the Chilian coast , when we shortened sail and stood in shore for a supply of water . This being obtained , we stood off and on the cost for a fortnight under easy sail ...
... weather favoring us to a remarkable degree , un- til we had sighted the Chilian coast , when we shortened sail and stood in shore for a supply of water . This being obtained , we stood off and on the cost for a fortnight under easy sail ...
第 40 頁
... weather , we made sail for Fecklistoff , having captured , dur- ing the season , forty - nine whales , which had yielded seventeen hundred barrels of oil , and twenty - seven thousand pounds of bone . We arrived at Fecklistoff on the ...
... weather , we made sail for Fecklistoff , having captured , dur- ing the season , forty - nine whales , which had yielded seventeen hundred barrels of oil , and twenty - seven thousand pounds of bone . We arrived at Fecklistoff on the ...
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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...