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 102
... forcing them to rush through a few funnels on the Sound of Jura , could give our Northern Hemisphere a fac - simile of a Fuegian williwaw . This ferocious wind is capable of overturning almost any obstacle ; and , like grass 102 FUEGIA .
... forcing them to rush through a few funnels on the Sound of Jura , could give our Northern Hemisphere a fac - simile of a Fuegian williwaw . This ferocious wind is capable of overturning almost any obstacle ; and , like grass 102 FUEGIA .
Pagina 109
... Fuegian Archipelago have sometimes been called Pesherais , from a word which some of them are constantly using . In the classification of the Human Families they have been named " the Ichthyophagi , " or Fish - eaters of Tierra del Fuego ...
... Fuegian Archipelago have sometimes been called Pesherais , from a word which some of them are constantly using . In the classification of the Human Families they have been named " the Ichthyophagi , " or Fish - eaters of Tierra del Fuego ...
Pagina 110
... Fuegian is fortified * For a minute description see a paper by Mr Wilson in the appendix to the 2d vol . of the " Voyages of the Adventure and Beagle . " Portraits of Fuegians may be seen there , and in the folio atlas of plates to ...
... Fuegian is fortified * For a minute description see a paper by Mr Wilson in the appendix to the 2d vol . of the " Voyages of the Adventure and Beagle . " Portraits of Fuegians may be seen there , and in the folio atlas of plates to ...
Pagina 113
... Fuegian secures . The sea around him is teeming with food , but he has neither net nor angle ; and it is only when he is lucky enough to spear a rock - salmon , or when he can get a suffi- ciency of a little simpleton fish which allows ...
... Fuegian secures . The sea around him is teeming with food , but he has neither net nor angle ; and it is only when he is lucky enough to spear a rock - salmon , or when he can get a suffi- ciency of a little simpleton fish which allows ...
Pagina 115
... Fuegian is an alternation of occasional feasts with long intervals of famine . In the des- peration of hunger it is fearful to think of the expedients to which he is occasionally driven . There can be no doubt , however , that these In ...
... Fuegian is an alternation of occasional feasts with long intervals of famine . In the des- peration of hunger it is fearful to think of the expedients to which he is occasionally driven . There can be no doubt , however , that these In ...
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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