 | Friedrich Gerstäcker - 1853 - Страниц: 630
...little, and you may wash in salt-water the grease as easily off with this as with soap in fresh-water. These three fish, though of no great size, yielded...means rare in these latitudes, and principally on Christmas Island, a little flat coral-bank, over-grown with bushes and some cocoa-palms, about 4°... | |
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...is true, but only, as it turned out afterward, for a finback, or perhaps the deceiving light 314 315 of the sun that glittered on the waves, and made the look-out fancy it the spout of a sperm- fish." Air. Gcrstaecher arrives home safely, after a voyage of one hundred and twenty-three... | |
 | Henry Clay Watson - 1855 - Страниц: 536
...several times, it is true, but only, as it turned out afterward, for a finback, or perhaps the deceving light of the sun that glittered on the waves, and...the look-out fancy it the spout of a sperm-fish." 246 WILD SPORTS IN THE HIGHLANDS. of ST. JOHN'S "Wild Sports of the Highlands," is a work peculiarly... | |
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These three fish, though of no great size, yielded about one hundred and four barrels of oil ; and our captain had strong hopes of falling in with some more of this kind, but day after day passed without our seeing a single spout. The deck was hailed... 