A Description of Pitcairn's Island and Its Inhabitants: With an Authentic Account of the Mutiny of the Ship Bounty, and of the Subsequent Fortunes of the Mutineers |
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... Crew , with Obser- vations thereon 63 CHAPTER IV . THE OPEN - BOAT NAVIGATION . Narrative of the unparalleled Voyage of Four Thousand Miles , per- formed by Lieutenant Bligh and seventeen others in an open Boat 92 CHAPTER V. THE PANDORA ...
... Crew , with Obser- vations thereon 63 CHAPTER IV . THE OPEN - BOAT NAVIGATION . Narrative of the unparalleled Voyage of Four Thousand Miles , per- formed by Lieutenant Bligh and seventeen others in an open Boat 92 CHAPTER V. THE PANDORA ...
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... crews of those ships which carried to their shores , in succession , Wallis , Bougainville , and Cook . The first communication which Wallis had with these people was unfortunately of a hostile nature . Having approached with his ship ...
... crews of those ships which carried to their shores , in succession , Wallis , Bougainville , and Cook . The first communication which Wallis had with these people was unfortunately of a hostile nature . Having approached with his ship ...
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... crew , the large double canoes closed round the ship ; and as these advanced , some of the men began singing , some blowing conchs , and others playing on flutes . One of them , with a person sitting under a canopy , approached the ship ...
... crew , the large double canoes closed round the ship ; and as these advanced , some of the men began singing , some blowing conchs , and others playing on flutes . One of them , with a person sitting under a canopy , approached the ship ...
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... crew . Con- tinued rain and a close atmosphere had covered every thing in the ship with mildew . She was therefore aired below with fires , and frequently sprinkled with vinegar , and every interval of dry weather was taken advantage of ...
... crew . Con- tinued rain and a close atmosphere had covered every thing in the ship with mildew . She was therefore aired below with fires , and frequently sprinkled with vinegar , and every interval of dry weather was taken advantage of ...
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... crew , they sailed again on the 1st July , and anchored in Adven- ture Bay , in Van Dieman's Land , on the 20th August . Here they remained taking in wood and water till the 4th September , and on the evening of the 25th October they ...
... crew , they sailed again on the 1st July , and anchored in Adven- ture Bay , in Van Dieman's Land , on the 20th August . Here they remained taking in wood and water till the 4th September , and on the evening of the 25th October they ...
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Page 152 - Louder than the loud ocean, like a crash Of echoing thunder; and then all was hush'd, Save the wild wind and the remorseless dash Of billows; but at intervals there gush'd, Accompanied with a convulsive splash, A solitary shriek, the bubbling cry Of some strong swimmer in his agony.
Page 63 - Horror and doubt distract His troubled thoughts, and from the bottom stir The hell within him ; for within him Hell He brings, and round about him, nor from Hell One step, no more than from himself, can fly By change of place.
Page 214 - Well believe this, No ceremony that to great ones 'longs, Not the king's crown, nor the deputed sword, The marshal's truncheon, nor the judge's robe, Become them with one half so good a grace, As mercy does.
Page 134 - Put the wild waters in this roar, allay them. The sky, it seems, would pour down stinking pitch, But that the sea, mounting to the welkin's cheek, Dashes the fire out.
Page 207 - Yet, if I am found guilty this day, they will not construe it, I trust, as the least disrespect offered to their discernment and opinion, if I solemnly declare that my heart will rely with confidence in its own innocence, until that awful period when my spirit shall be about to be separated from my body to take its everlasting flight, and be ushered into the presence of that unerring Judge, before whom all hearts are open and from whom no secrets are hid.
Page 48 - The bread-tree, which, without the ploughshare, yields The unreap'd harvest of unfurrow'd fields, And bakes its unadulterated loaves Without a furnace in unpurchased groves, And flings off famine from its fertile breast, A priceless market for the gathering guest...
Page 152 - And down she suck'd with her the whirling wave, Like one who grapples with his enemy, And strives to strangle him before he die.
Page 69 - Notwithstanding the roughness with which I was treated the remembrance of past kindnesses produced some signs of remorse in Christian. When they were forcing me out of the ship I asked him if this treatment was a proper return for the many instances he had received of my friendship? he appeared disturbed at my question and answered with much emotion: "That, captain Bligh, that is the thing; I am in hell, I am in hell.
Page 250 - Pacific islands; his only dress was a piece of cloth round his loins, and a straw hat ornamented with the black feathers of the domestic fowl. "With a great share of good humour...
Page 214 - ... the commissioners for executing the office of Lord High Admiral of Great Britain and Ireland...