Memoir of Richard WilliamsJames Nisbet, 1857 - 250 pagine |
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Pagina 52
... natives , and the daily increasing risk of violence , rendered a longer sojourn on shore impossible ; and after a month of anxiety and danger , the Captain and his companion were glad to take refuge on ship- board , and return to ...
... natives , and the daily increasing risk of violence , rendered a longer sojourn on shore impossible ; and after a month of anxiety and danger , the Captain and his companion were glad to take refuge on ship- board , and return to ...
Pagina 62
... natives - which , no doubt , were perfectly satisfactory to himself , and must also have been so to me , for I thought little further on the subject . Shortly after- wards , about noon , the Ocean Queen was warped through the gates ...
... natives - which , no doubt , were perfectly satisfactory to himself , and must also have been so to me , for I thought little further on the subject . Shortly after- wards , about noon , the Ocean Queen was warped through the gates ...
Pagina 96
... and generosity , though , as it were , buried deep in deplorable ignorance and abject want . One woman had a remarkably prepossess- ing countenance , very open and cheerful ; so also THE FIRST OF THE NATIVES . 97 had one of 96 THE VOYAGE .
... and generosity , though , as it were , buried deep in deplorable ignorance and abject want . One woman had a remarkably prepossess- ing countenance , very open and cheerful ; so also THE FIRST OF THE NATIVES . 97 had one of 96 THE VOYAGE .
Pagina 97
... natives wore their best faces . They wanted food and trinkets from the strangers ; and as long as their visitors remained on ship - board they were safe from tricks and violence . - But , before proceeding with the narrative , it may be ...
... natives wore their best faces . They wanted food and trinkets from the strangers ; and as long as their visitors remained on ship - board they were safe from tricks and violence . - But , before proceeding with the narrative , it may be ...
Pagina 103
... native lands , and there , along with its equally delicate companion , Veronica decussata , it becomes a tree with a trunk half a foot in dia- meter . The potato is indigenous on the adjacent mainland , although we do not know that it ...
... native lands , and there , along with its equally delicate companion , Veronica decussata , it becomes a tree with a trunk half a foot in dia- meter . The potato is indigenous on the adjacent mainland , although we do not know that it ...
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