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Abyssinia accordingly adventures afterwards animals Antonio de Faria appeared arrived Astor Astoria Astrolabe attack Batavia became began boat brought Bruce canoes Cape Cape Horn Captain Captain Cook cargo carried Centurion chief Chinese coast Coja Acem commander Commodore Anson companions Cook Cook's crew danger death deck despatched discovery Endeavour enemy enterprise especially expedition exploring Fernand Mendez fire fortune French furs galleon Gloucester guns hand honour Humboldt hundred Indians inhabitants island journey junk Khan King Kublai Khan La Pérouse labour land lantea length Macdougal Malacca Marco mariners Martaban Mendez Pinto natives navigator observations Otaheite Pacific Pahang Paita Pérouse Pinto pirate plunder port Portuguese provisions Ras Michael river round running a muck sail sailors savage says Pinto seemed sent settlement ship shipwrecked shore Society Islands soon Spaniards Spanish squadron strange thousand Tinian Tonquin town travellers vessel visitors voyage
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Page 233 - In all my wanderings round this world of care, In all my griefs - and God has given my share I still had hopes my latest hours to crown, Amidst these humble bowers to lay me down; To husband out life's taper at the close, And keep the flame from wasting by repose.
Page 216 - HIGH on a throne of royal state, which far Outshone the wealth of Ormus and of Ind, Or where the gorgeous East with richest hand Showers on her kings barbaric pearl and gold...
Page 170 - ... a country doomed by Nature never once to feel the warmth of the sun's rays, but to lie buried in everlasting snow and ice.
Page 21 - The drivers suddenly tripped up the cow, and gave the poor animal a very rude fall upon the ground, which was but the beginning of her sufferings. One of them sat across her neck, holding down her head by the horns, the other twisted the halter about her...
Page 345 - At the dead hour of night, in the wildest and most inhospitable wastes of Australia, with the fierce wind raging in unison with the scene of violence before me, I was left, with a single native, whose fidelity I could not rely upon, and who for aught I knew might be in league with the other two, who perhaps were even now, lurking about with the view of taking away my life as they had done that of the overseer.
Page 124 - ... windward, to the end of which is fastened a log, fashioned into the shape of a small boat, and made hollow. The weight of the frame is intended to balance the proa, and the small boat is by its buoyancy (as it is always in the water) to prevent her oversetting to windward ; and this frame is usually called an outrigger. The body of the...
Page 185 - ... under; but struggling very strongly with them he got his head up, and casting his look towards the pinnace seemed to solicit assistance. Though the boat was not above five or six yards distant from him, yet from the crowded and confused state of the crew it seems it was not in their power to save him. The Indians got him under again but in deeper water; he was, however, able to get his head up once more, and being almost spent in the...
Page 184 - Captain Cook was then the only one remaining on the rock: he was observed making for the pinnace, holding his left hand against the back of his head, to guard it from the stones, and carrying his musket under the other arm. An Indian was seen following him, but with caution and timidity; for he stopped once or twice, as if undetermined to proceed. At last he advanced upon him unawares, and with a large club, or common stake, gave him a blow on the back of the head, and then precipitately retreated.
Page 345 - With an aching heart, and in most painful reflections, I passed this dreadful night. Every moment appeared to be protracted to an hour, and it seemed as if the daylight would never appear. About midnight the wind ceased, and the weather became bitterly cold and frosty. I had...
Page 110 - And those, who came latest into the fashion, not finding men's clothes sufficient to equip themselves, they were obliged to take up with women's gowns and petticoats, which (provided there was finery enough) they made no scruple of putting on, and blending with their own greasy dress. So that when a party of them thus ridiculously metamorphosed first appeared before Mr. Brett, he was extremely surprised at their appearance, and could not immediately be satisfied they were his own people.