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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... hour there was not a single canoe to be seen ; and all the people who had crowded the shore fled over the hills with the ut- most precipitation . What was to happen on the following day was matter of conjecture , but this point was soon ...
... hour there was not a single canoe to be seen ; and all the people who had crowded the shore fled over the hills with the ut- most precipitation . What was to happen on the following day was matter of conjecture , but this point was soon ...
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... hour , they dressed us again , but in this they were , as may easily be imagined , very awkward ; I found great benefit , however , from the chafing , and so did the lieutenant and the purser . “ After a little time our generous ...
... hour , they dressed us again , but in this they were , as may easily be imagined , very awkward ; I found great benefit , however , from the chafing , and so did the lieutenant and the purser . “ After a little time our generous ...
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... them , and set out with Oberea in search of the thief . Mr. Banks was not in a condition to go with them , as of his apparel scarcely any thing was left him but his breeches . In about half an hour his two noble 26 OTAHEITE .
... them , and set out with Oberea in search of the thief . Mr. Banks was not in a condition to go with them , as of his apparel scarcely any thing was left him but his breeches . In about half an hour his two noble 26 OTAHEITE .
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... hour his two noble friends returned , but without having obtained any intelligence of his clothes or of the thief . Where Cook and Solander had disposed of themselves he did not know ; but hearing music , which was sure to bring a crowd ...
... hour his two noble friends returned , but without having obtained any intelligence of his clothes or of the thief . Where Cook and Solander had disposed of themselves he did not know ; but hearing music , which was sure to bring a crowd ...
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... hour , and reflect the colour of the time , however fre quently it may vary . They grieve for the death of a relation , and place the body on a stage erected on piles and covered with a roof of thatch ; for they never bury the dead ...
... hour , and reflect the colour of the time , however fre quently it may vary . They grieve for the death of a relation , and place the body on a stage erected on piles and covered with a roof of thatch ; for they never bury the dead ...
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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...