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 87
... tide which set at that hour . Consequently , we had to lie off , and beat between the two coasts of Staten Island and the mainland . We had thus abundant opportunity for seeing this remarkable land , particularly Staten Island , and ...
... tide which set at that hour . Consequently , we had to lie off , and beat between the two coasts of Staten Island and the mainland . We had thus abundant opportunity for seeing this remarkable land , particularly Staten Island , and ...
Pagina 88
... tide - race and swell combined , far more than we should have done in an ordinary gale . At three o'clock we hoped to have an opportunity again , it being ebb - tide , to pass through ; but though we tried , it was impossible , the wind ...
... tide - race and swell combined , far more than we should have done in an ordinary gale . At three o'clock we hoped to have an opportunity again , it being ebb - tide , to pass through ; but though we tried , it was impossible , the wind ...
Pagina 90
... tide against us had beaten us back from all attempts hitherto made to enter the Strait ; but now , taking advantage of an ebb - tide and a strong wind , the Captain carried on a heavy canvas , and finally about mid - day we got through ...
... tide against us had beaten us back from all attempts hitherto made to enter the Strait ; but now , taking advantage of an ebb - tide and a strong wind , the Captain carried on a heavy canvas , and finally about mid - day we got through ...
Pagina 102
... tide constantly flow- ing at their base ; and if , moreover , we could bring the north polar ice into as low a latitude as the An- tarctic ice descends - our own Western Isles would be the counterpart of Fuegia . The warm vapor of the ...
... tide constantly flow- ing at their base ; and if , moreover , we could bring the north polar ice into as low a latitude as the An- tarctic ice descends - our own Western Isles would be the counterpart of Fuegia . The warm vapor of the ...
Pagina 106
... tides , these coasts are the head - quarters of the Lessonia and Macrocystis , the two giants of the ocean Flora . The former is an arborescent sea- weed , with a trunk of concentric layers so timber- like , that Dr Hooker mentions a ...
... tides , these coasts are the head - quarters of the Lessonia and Macrocystis , the two giants of the ocean Flora . The former is an arborescent sea- weed , with a trunk of concentric layers so timber- like , that Dr Hooker mentions a ...
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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