Episodes of Foreign Life & Manners, and Pictures of Foreign Lands: A Book for YouthBlackie, 1880 - Всего страниц: 256 |
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... rock to rock . Not to be surprised by the wily Apachians , we pitched our camp at some distance off on a gentle acclivity . The waggons were disposed in a square , and their chains linked with one another to prevent our mules from ...
... rock to rock . Not to be surprised by the wily Apachians , we pitched our camp at some distance off on a gentle acclivity . The waggons were disposed in a square , and their chains linked with one another to prevent our mules from ...
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... rocks covered with Indian hieroglyphics . At several points one meets with colossal sculptures carved out of the rock . These are generally vases . The work- manship is sufficiently rude , but suggests the anterior occupation of the ...
... rocks covered with Indian hieroglyphics . At several points one meets with colossal sculptures carved out of the rock . These are generally vases . The work- manship is sufficiently rude , but suggests the anterior occupation of the ...
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... had terrified me ceased - and I thought I could perceive in the distance the rocks of Kurunagalla . I redescended and resumed my flight ; but within an I took care , hour was obliged to mount another LOST IN THE FORESTS OF CEYLON . 61.
... had terrified me ceased - and I thought I could perceive in the distance the rocks of Kurunagalla . I redescended and resumed my flight ; but within an I took care , hour was obliged to mount another LOST IN THE FORESTS OF CEYLON . 61.
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... rocks of Kurunagalla , which I had descried from the summit of my observatory , and which , according to my calculations , I would easily reach in a few hours . Unfortunately , the height of the brushwood soon hid them from my view ...
... rocks of Kurunagalla , which I had descried from the summit of my observatory , and which , according to my calculations , I would easily reach in a few hours . Unfortunately , the height of the brushwood soon hid them from my view ...
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... Rocks , brooks , the trunks of trees , he crossed them all with the rapidity of a grey- hound . He exhausted himself without any success , and completely lost all trace of the two horsemen . It was night , and he had eaten nothing since ...
... Rocks , brooks , the trunks of trees , he crossed them all with the rapidity of a grey- hound . He exhausted himself without any success , and completely lost all trace of the two horsemen . It was night , and he had eaten nothing since ...
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Achmet adventures afterwards alarm Algiers animals Apachians appeared Arab arms arrived attack Baffa Bajazet banks beasts beautiful Bedouins began Berbers black eunuchs boat cafess camp captain caravan Carli Cheik-ul-Islam chief Chihuahua close companions Constantinople Corralitos crew cries danger death desert elephants Emperor escape eunuchs eyes fatigue favour favourite fear feet fell fire flung forest François fresh frightful Grand Vizier hand harem harpoon Hassaki hastened head hour hundred hunger Ibrahim immediately Imperial Indians inhabitants janissaries Kiosim Kislar-Aga Kummer length live Mademoiselle Burke Malacca Messaoud Mexican Moors mountains Mourad Mustapha negroes night odalisques old Seraglio Ottoman Pacha Padishah Palembang passed perceived peril Pompey's Pillar Portuguese prahus prince replied river rock Roxalana savage seized Seraglio shallop ship shouts slaves Soliman soon strangled suddenly Sultan tartane terrible tiger tion took traveller traversed tree trembled troop unfortunate Valideh voyage whale wild women wounded young zambos
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Стр. 124 - It ate the food it ne'er had eat, And round and round it flew. The ice did split with a thunder-fit; The helmsman steered us through! And a good south wind sprung up behind; The Albatross did follow, And every day, for food or play, Came to the mariners...
Стр. 135 - ... boat, after it had been drawn out by the fish. A painful stroke of his lance induced the whale to dart suddenly downward; his line began to run out from beneath his feet, and in an instant caught him by a turn round his body. He had but just time to cry out, " Clear away the line," —
Стр. 77 - To the West ! to the West ! where the rivers that flow Run thousands of miles, spreading out as they go ; Where the green waving forests that echo our call Are wide as old England, and free to us all ; Where the prairies, like seas where the billows have rolled, Are broad as the kingdoms and empires of old ; And the lakes are like oceans in storm or in rest, — Away, far away, to the land of the West...
Стр. 130 - He cast himself into the sea, and by swimming endeavored to regain the boats, which continued the pursuit of the whale. When his shipmates perceived him struggling with the waves, they redoubled their exertions. They reached him just as his strength was exhausted, and had the happiness of rescuing this adventurous harpooner from his perilous situation. "Captain Lyons, of the 'Raith...
Стр. 173 - KNOW ye the land where the cypress and myrtle Are emblems of deeds that are done in their clime? Where the rage of the vulture, the love of the turtle, Now melt into sorrow, now madden to crime...
Стр. 130 - ... fell upon the back of the animal. This intrepid seaman, who still retained his weapon in his grasp, harpooned the whale on which he stood; and, by means of the harpoon and the line, which he never abandoned, he steadied himself firmly upon the fish, notwithstanding his hazardous situation, and regardless of a considerable wound that he received in his leg, in his fall along with the fragments of the boat. All the efforts of the other boats to approach the whale, and deliver the harpooner, were...
Стр. 139 - Wide waving fins round floating islands urge His bulk gigantic through the troubled surge; With hideous yawn the flying shoals he seeks, Or clasps with fringe of horn his massy cheeks, Lifts o'er the tossing wave his nostrils bare, And spouts pellucid columns into air; The silvery arches catch the setting beams, And transient rainbows tremble o'er the streams.
Стр. 130 - His knife was in the pocket of his drawers; and, being unable to support himself with one hand, he could not get it out. The whale, meanwhile, continued advancing along the surface of the water with great rapidity, . but fortunately never attempted to dive. While his comrades despaired of his life, the harpoon by which he held, at length disengaged itself from the body of the whale. Vienkes being...
Стр. 130 - Vienkes flew along with the pieces of the boat, and fell upon the back of the animal. This intrepid seaman, who still retained his weapon in his grasp, harpooned the whale on which he stood; and, by means of the harpoon and the line, which he never abandoned, he steadied himself firmly upon the fish, notwithstanding his hazardous situation, and regardless of a considerable wound that he received in his leg, in his fall along with the fragments of the boat.
Стр. 133 - The ships and boats being at a considerable distance, and the fast-boat being rapidly drawn away from him, the harpooner cut the line, with the view of rescuing him from his dangerous situation. But no sooner was this act performed than, to their extreme mortification, they discovered...