The Polar Regions: Or a Search After Sir John Franklin's ExpeditionBarnes, 1854 - Всего страниц: 216 |
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Стр. 36 - And now the storm-blast came, and he Was tyrannous and strong : He struck with his o'ertaking wings, And chased us south along. With sloping masts and dipping prow, As who pursued with yell and blow Still treads the shadow of his foe, And forward bends his head, The ship drove fast, loud roar'd the blast, And southward aye we fled.
Стр. 36 - And now there came both mist and snow, And it grew wondrous cold: And ice, mast-high, came floating by, As green as emerald.
Стр. 119 - Thy way is in the sea, and thy paths in the great waters, and thy footsteps are not known.
Стр. 26 - I HEARD the trailing garments of the Night Sweep through her marble halls ! I saw her sable skirts all fringed with light From the celestial walls. I felt her presence, by its spell of might, Stoop o'er me from above ; The calm majestic presence of the Night, As of the one I love.
Стр. 88 - ... oval outline — the border carefully formed of moss lichen, poppies, and anemones, transplanted from some more genial part of this dreary region — contrived still to show symptoms of vitality ; but the seeds which doubtless they had sowed in the garden had decayed away. Nearer to the beach, a heap of cinders and scraps of iron showed the armorers...
Стр. 84 - A long point of land slopes gradually from the southern bluffs of this now deeply interesting island, until it almost connects itself with the land of North Devon, forming on either side of it two good and commodious bays. On this slope, a multitude of...
Стр. 85 - ... tins, filled with gravel, and placed to form a firm and solid foundation. Beyond this, and along the northern shore of Beechey Island, the following traces were then quickly discovered : the embankment of a house, with carpenters...
Стр. 89 - Nearer to the beach, a heap of cinders and scraps of iron showed the armorers' working-place ; and, along an old water-course, now chained up by frost, several tubs, constructed of the ends of salt-meat casks, left no doubt as to the washing-places of the men of Franklin's squadron. Happening to cross a level piece of ground, which as yet no one had lighted upon, I...
Стр. 90 - From a number of minute facts, it was not difficult to assign the place where the ships must have lain through the winter : they were so stationed, Osborn says, as to be effectually removed from all risk of being swept out of the bay — which, by the by, from the fact of the enclosed area being many times broader than the entrance of Erebus and Terror Bay, was about as probable as any stout gentleman being blown out of a house through the keyhole.
Стр. 91 - Sacred to the memory of J. HartwelK AB, of HMS Erebus, died January 4th, 1846, aged 25 years. Thus suith the Lord of Hosts, consider your ways.-^- Haggai i. 7." ' I thought I traced in the epitaphs over the graves of the men from the Erebus the manly and Christian spirit of Franklin. In the true spirit of chivalry, he, their captain and leader, led them amidst dangers and unknown difficulties with iron will stamped upon his brow, but the words of meekness, gentleness, and truth were his device.