A Voyage in the 'Sunbeam': Our Home on the Ocean for Eleven MonthsLongmans Green and Company, 1879 - Всего страниц: 572 |
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afternoon afterwards anchor appeared arrived ashore beautiful bêche-de-mer beneath birds blue boat BOW ISLAND breakfast breeze bright brought Captain carriage Cauquenes Chinese cocoa-nut colour coral crew crowded dark deck dinner dressed drove eleven English feet fire fish flowers found ourselves four fresh Friday friends garden half-past harbour Harry Parkes Hilo Honolulu horses hour island Japan Japanese jinrikishas Kamehameha IV Kilauea ladies land lava light looked Mabelle Mikado miles morning mountains natives night nine o'clock o'clock once party passed PEACOCK MOUNTAIN pleasant Quillota rain reached reef returned river road rocks round sail sampans Saturday scene schooner seemed seen shade ship shore side soon sort steam steamer Sunbeam Sunday surrounded Tahiti temple to-day town trees tropical Valparaiso vegetation verandah vessel VOSTOK ISLANDS voyage walked weather wind yacht Yokohama
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Стр. 383 - I remember the black wharves and the slips, And the sea-tides tossing free; And Spanish sailors with bearded lips, And the beauty and mystery of the ships, And the magic of the sea. And the voice of that wayward song Is singing and saying still: "A boy's will is the wind's will, And the thoughts of youth are long, long thoughts.
Стр. 479 - I travelled among unknown men In lands beyond the sea; Nor, England ! did I know till then What love I bore to thee. 'Tis past, that melancholy dream ! Nor will I quit thy shore A second time; for still I seem To love thee more and more. Among thy mountains did I feel The joy of my desire; And she I...
Стр. 7 - I rushed on deck, and found that, the weather having moderated a little, some kind sailor, knowing my love of fresh air, had opened the skylight rather too soon ; and one of the angry waves had popped on board, deluging the cabin. I got a light, and proceeded to mop up, as best I could, and then endeavoured to find a dry place to sleep in. This, however, was no easy task, for my own bed was drenched, and every other berth occupied. The deck, too, was ankle-deep in water, as I found when I tried to...
Стр. 252 - Whenever I stopped to look at a view, one of the girls would come behind me and throw a lei of flowers over my head, fasten it round my neck, and then run away laughing, to a distance, to judge of effect. The consequence was that, before the end of our walk, I had about a dozen wreaths, of various colours and lengths, hanging round me, till I felt almost as if I had a fur tippet on, they made me so hot; and yet I did not like to take them off for fear of hurting the poor girls
Стр. 257 - When we emerged from the wood, we found ourselves at the very edge of the old crater, the bed of which, three or four hundred feet beneath us, was surrounded by steep and in many places overhanging sides. It looked like an enormous caldron, four or five miles in width, full of a mass of cooled pitch. In the center was the still glowing stream of dark-red lava, flowing slowly toward us, and in every direction were red-hot patches, and flames and smoke issuing from the ground. A bit of the "black country...
Стр. iii - SUNBEAM ' ; OUR HOME ON THE OCEAN FOR ELEVEN MONTHS.
Стр. 259 - First of all we descended the precipice, 300 feet in depth, forming the wall of the old crater, but now thickly covered with vegetation. It is so steep in many places that flights of zig-zag wooden steps have been inserted in the face of the cliff in some places, in order to render the descent practicable. At the bottom we stepped straight on to the surface of cold boiled lava, which we had seen from above last night. Even here, in every crevice where a few grains of soil had collected, delicate...
Стр. 187 - Throughout the night a flat calm prevailed. The morning was wet and foggy, or we might still have seen Valparaiso, and perhaps have had a peep at Aconcagua. There was a light contrary wind from the NW throughout the day. In the afternoon we saw two whales blowing in the distance. Wednesday, November is/.- ' i dmcst calm day, with a few light showers, and fitful ., t unfavourable breezes.
Стр. 79 - I heard a fair one cry ; But give to me the snoring breeze And white waves heaving high ; And white waves heaving high, my lads, The good ship tight and free — The world of waters is our home, And merry men are we.
Стр. 259 - We succeeded, however, in finding a few good specimens, and, by wrapping them at once in paper and cotton-wool and putting them into a bottle, hope to bring them home uninjured. On our return we found a gentleman who had just arrived from Kau, and who proposed to join us in our expedition to the crater, and at three o'clock in the afternoon we set out, a party of eight, with two guides, and three porters to carry our wraps and provisions, and to bring back specimens. Before leaving the inn the landlord...