A Memoir of Richard Williams, Surgeon: Catechist to the Patagonian Missionary Society in Tierra Del FuegoJ. Nisbet and Company, 1854 - 255 pagine |
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Pagina 106
... rocks or washed ashore by the tides , these coasts are the head - quarters of the Lessonia and Macrocystis , the two ... rock by a tough but slen- der cable , which , rising to the surface , breaks into leaves , and then streams along a ...
... rocks or washed ashore by the tides , these coasts are the head - quarters of the Lessonia and Macrocystis , the two ... rock by a tough but slen- der cable , which , rising to the surface , breaks into leaves , and then streams along a ...
Pagina 107
... rock , it is at once the buoy and the breakwater of these dangerous chan- nels . The " moored kelp " warns the mariner of a sunken rock , and if in stormy weather his little vessel can only get to leeward of its floating acres , he may ...
... rock , it is at once the buoy and the breakwater of these dangerous chan- nels . The " moored kelp " warns the mariner of a sunken rock , and if in stormy weather his little vessel can only get to leeward of its floating acres , he may ...
Pagina 113
... rock - salmon , or when he can get a suffi- ciency of a little simpleton fish which allows itself to be spirited out of the water by a baited but hookless line , that this Ichthyophagous Indian de- serves his name . But if he is not a ...
... rock - salmon , or when he can get a suffi- ciency of a little simpleton fish which allows itself to be spirited out of the water by a baited but hookless line , that this Ichthyophagous Indian de- serves his name . But if he is not a ...
Pagina 136
... rock salmon , which they had a minute or two before caught . The absence of fish is the more important to us , as the Captain , having ob- served plenty with the natives when he was here before , had fully reckoned on them , and had 136 ...
... rock salmon , which they had a minute or two before caught . The absence of fish is the more important to us , as the Captain , having ob- served plenty with the natives when he was here before , had fully reckoned on them , and had 136 ...
Pagina 143
... rocks . Destruction now , indeed , threatened us , and poor Erwin was almost beside himself . • The boat , the boat will be lost ! -she's done for , she'll go to pieces ! ' was the poor fellow's repeated ex- clamation . We did our ...
... rocks . Destruction now , indeed , threatened us , and poor Erwin was almost beside himself . • The boat , the boat will be lost ! -she's done for , she'll go to pieces ! ' was the poor fellow's repeated ex- clamation . We did our ...
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Pagina 80 - Lord, who shall abide in Thy tabernacle? Who shall dwell in Thy holy hill? He that walketh uprightly, and worketh righteousness, And speaketh the truth in his heart.
Pagina 210 - But the God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered a while, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you.
Pagina 199 - In God is my salvation and my glory: the rock of my strength, and my refuge, is in God.
Pagina 108 - Lord, how manifold are thy works ! In wisdom hast thou made them all: The earth is full of thy riches. So is this great and wide sea, Wherein are things creeping innumerable, Both small and great beasts.
Pagina 169 - Therefore, behold, I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak comfortably unto her. And I will give her her vineyards from thence, and the valley of Achor for a door of hope : and she shall sing there, as in the days of her youth, and as in the day when she came up out of the land of Egypt.
Pagina 34 - Come and hear, all ye that fear God, and I will declare what he hath done for my soul.
Pagina 214 - Although the fig tree shall not blossom, neither shall fruit be in the vines; The labour of the olive shall fail, and the fields shall yield no meat; The flock shall be cut off from the fold, and there shall be no herd in the stalls: Yet I will rejoice in the Lord, I will joy in the God of my salvation.
Pagina 153 - I have been in the deep; in journeyings often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils by mine own countrymen, in perils by the heathen, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren; in weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.
Pagina 199 - No horses being to be had, I had an unexpected repose. I sat in the orchard and thought with sweet comfort and peace of my God, in solitude my Company, my Friend, and Comforter. Oh ! when shall time give place to eternity ! When shall appear that new heaven and new earth wherein dwelleth righteousness...
Pagina 33 - Blow up the trumpet in the new moon, in the time appointed, on our solemn feast day. 4 For this was a statute for Israel, and a law of the God of Jacob.