A Memoir of Richard Williams : Surgeon: Catechist to the Patagonian Missionary Society in Tierra Del FuegoJames Nisbet, 1854 - 255 pagine |
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Pagina 53
... island to island , the migrations of the restless inhabitants . Early in 1848 a trial was made ; but so imper- fect were the means at the disposal of Captain Gardiner , that he found it impossible to persevere . Accordingly , he again ...
... island to island , the migrations of the restless inhabitants . Early in 1848 a trial was made ; but so imper- fect were the means at the disposal of Captain Gardiner , that he found it impossible to persevere . Accordingly , he again ...
Pagina 83
... Island and Garden Island , close to them both . The vessel , which has been rather leaky , it is intended to over- haul when we get to Picton Island ; and it is pro- bable that she will therefore stay with us a week , if not longer . As ...
... Island and Garden Island , close to them both . The vessel , which has been rather leaky , it is intended to over- haul when we get to Picton Island ; and it is pro- bable that she will therefore stay with us a week , if not longer . As ...
Pagina 84
... Island , and among other places to Woolya , the place where Jemmy Button , a Fuegian taken to England by Captain FitzRoy , was left on his return from Eng- land , after three years ' absence . If we can make him out , doubtless it may ...
... Island , and among other places to Woolya , the place where Jemmy Button , a Fuegian taken to England by Captain FitzRoy , was left on his return from Eng- land , after three years ' absence . If we can make him out , doubtless it may ...
Pagina 87
... Island and the mainland . We had thus abundant opportunity for seeing this remarkable land , particularly Staten Island , and likewise abun- dant experience of the extreme disagreeableness of our proximity to the Strait of Le Maire ...
... Island and the mainland . We had thus abundant opportunity for seeing this remarkable land , particularly Staten Island , and likewise abun- dant experience of the extreme disagreeableness of our proximity to the Strait of Le Maire ...
Pagina 88
... Island must certainly be un- equalled in this respect . It is a place of dreariness and of forlorn solitude , par excellence . Its bare , broken , jagged , turret - like hills , present the idea of an immense fortress , erected by ...
... Island must certainly be un- equalled in this respect . It is a place of dreariness and of forlorn solitude , par excellence . Its bare , broken , jagged , turret - like hills , present the idea of an immense fortress , erected by ...
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Parole e frasi comuni
66 Tuesday able anchor arrived Badcock Banner Cove beach Beagle Channel betwixt bless blowing boat Burslem canoes Cape Captain Gardiner cheerful Christ Christian cold comfort Cook's River danger dark delightful Erwin eternal faith favor fear feel felt friends Fuegian Garden Island glorious glory God's grace greatly guanaco hand heart heaven heavenly holy hope Jemmy Jemmy Button Jesus land Lennox Harbour light Lord Maidment meerschaum mercy mind mission missionary Montevideo morning natives Navarin Island ness never night o'clock Ocean Queen party Patagonian PATAGONIAN MISSIONARY SOCIETY peace Picton Island Pioneer poor praise prayer present rejoice rocks salvation Saturday Saviour scarcely seemed shewed ship shore sight soon soul Spaniard Harbour Speedwell Spirit Staten Island Straits of Magellan thee things thought tide Tierra del Fuego tion To-day truth unto vessel voyage weather whilst wigwam Williams wind