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
... weather . Even then , however , our Western Isles would be halcyon nests compared with this stormy archipelago . Nothing save a rampart of mountains , a mile or two in height , extending from the Cape Verdes to Campbelton , damming up ...
... weather . Even then , however , our Western Isles would be halcyon nests compared with this stormy archipelago . Nothing save a rampart of mountains , a mile or two in height , extending from the Cape Verdes to Campbelton , damming up ...
Pagina 107
... weather his little vessel can only get to leeward of its floating acres , he may set the wildest sea at defiance . * In this way has Providence not only supplied the means of safety in the very midst of danger , but , by the same ...
... weather his little vessel can only get to leeward of its floating acres , he may set the wildest sea at defiance . * In this way has Providence not only supplied the means of safety in the very midst of danger , but , by the same ...
Pagina 111
... weather ; and there they tarry till they have devoured all the food of the district , and it is time to seek an- other settlement . They are not without a taste for ornament , nor are they entirely devoid of ingenuity . They usually ...
... weather ; and there they tarry till they have devoured all the food of the district , and it is time to seek an- other settlement . They are not without a taste for ornament , nor are they entirely devoid of ingenuity . They usually ...
Pagina 114
... weather . For a great period of every year these poor islanders are entirely dependent on mussels , limpets , and similar shell - fish ; and , every time that the tide retires , the whole population is spread over the shore , rummaging ...
... weather . For a great period of every year these poor islanders are entirely dependent on mussels , limpets , and similar shell - fish ; and , every time that the tide retires , the whole population is spread over the shore , rummaging ...
Pagina 117
... the threshold , and with smoked fish and deer's flesh hanging from the rafters ; and when they wished to cross an arm of the sea , they waited for a day of calm weather which would not endanger their wicker coracle . The FUEGIA . 117.
... the threshold , and with smoked fish and deer's flesh hanging from the rafters ; and when they wished to cross an arm of the sea , they waited for a day of calm weather which would not endanger their wicker coracle . The FUEGIA . 117.
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Parole e frasi comuni
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