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 52
... natives , and the daily increasing risk of violence , rendered a longer sojourn on shore impossible ; and after a month of anxiety and dan- ger , 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 dan- ger , 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 afterwards , about noon , the Ocean Queen was warped through the gates , and ...
... 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 afterwards , about noon , the Ocean Queen was warped through the gates , and ...
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 de- cussata , it becomes a tree with a trunk half a foot in diameter . 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 de- cussata , it becomes a tree with a trunk half a foot in diameter . The potato is indigenous on the adjacent mainland , although we do not know that it ...
Pagina 115
... watch of a man - of - war , and succeeded in abstracting valu- able boats belonging to the surveying expedition of the British Admiralty ; and when a native gentle- man had been paying a visit on board , before FUEGIA . 115.
... watch of a man - of - war , and succeeded in abstracting valu- able boats belonging to the surveying expedition of the British Admiralty ; and when a native gentle- man had been paying a visit on board , before FUEGIA . 115.
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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