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 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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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