Memoir of Richard WilliamsJames Nisbet, 1857 - 250 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 LETTER TO A SISTER . 137 before , had fully $ 36 ...
... 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 LETTER TO A SISTER . 137 before , had fully $ 36 ...
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 utmost ...
... 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 utmost ...
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