Eighteen Months on a Greenland WhalerThe author, 1878 - 307 páginas An account of the author's whaling voyage aboard the schooner Franklin of New London, in 1867 or 1869, and an expansion of his account of the same voyage recounted in his Three Years on a Whaler (Bath, N.Y., 1875). The Franklin wintered over in Cumberland Inlet, and there is a good account of the Eskimos, as well as a good description of whaling. |
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... bear a hand himself too , at whatever demanded a united pull , and preferred settling his differences on the spot to having them lugged before an higher tribunal Apropos of this , I recollect of a sound whipping he gave to one of the ...
... bear a hand himself too , at whatever demanded a united pull , and preferred settling his differences on the spot to having them lugged before an higher tribunal Apropos of this , I recollect of a sound whipping he gave to one of the ...
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... bears are on their rambles wide 60 And sea - birds no more fly . Green bowers " there are , where sailors say Fond lovers meet at e'en ; I cannot say what these can be , Nor do I mind one pin . But on the leeside of yon ' berg , Moored ...
... bears are on their rambles wide 60 And sea - birds no more fly . Green bowers " there are , where sailors say Fond lovers meet at e'en ; I cannot say what these can be , Nor do I mind one pin . But on the leeside of yon ' berg , Moored ...
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... bears and walruses would be made happy in the disappearance of troublesome neighbors . Indeed what people , wherever placed , is without the idiosyncrasy thus designated ? No matter what may be the natural disadvantages belonging to his ...
... bears and walruses would be made happy in the disappearance of troublesome neighbors . Indeed what people , wherever placed , is without the idiosyncrasy thus designated ? No matter what may be the natural disadvantages belonging to his ...
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... bear and a little vulpine fox chiefly disputing his dominion by aggressive measures . Seals and walruses are amphibia holding part possession ; and deer and mountain hare , with a few other species of granivora , seek quiet tenure of ...
... bear and a little vulpine fox chiefly disputing his dominion by aggressive measures . Seals and walruses are amphibia holding part possession ; and deer and mountain hare , with a few other species of granivora , seek quiet tenure of ...
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... bear are all in this way fit prey of commerce , but chief of them all is the whale , " that greatest of the works of God , " for which we were in these parts . This animal , as all of the cetacean kind , ON A GREENLAND WHALER . 111.
... bear are all in this way fit prey of commerce , but chief of them all is the whale , " that greatest of the works of God , " for which we were in these parts . This animal , as all of the cetacean kind , ON A GREENLAND WHALER . 111.
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Eighteen Months on a Greenland Whaler (Classic Reprint) Joseph P. Faulkner Sin vista previa disponible - 2017 |
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ahead aloft amid anchor watch appeared Arctic Aurora Borealis barque beauty became beneath blow blubber boats breath breeze brief called captain clear close cold crew danger deck distance dogs Esquimaux fantastic light feet felt floes flukes followed forecastle gale gave give Greenland grog gulf gunwale habits hand hard harpoon hauling heard heaving icebergs Johnny Penny Johnny Taylor kind knew land length light little savage look matter ment miles molasses mouth natives natural never night o'er oars observed once ourselves passed Peterhead picaninnies poor port Quickstep reach ready round sail sailors schooner Scotch seal SEAL HUNT seemed ship shore side sight sledges sleep snow soon stood supply suppose surface taking thing thought tion turn vessel voyage walrus watch waves whale wind winter word
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Página 306 - Wilt thou upon the high and giddy mast Seal up the ship-boy's eyes, and rock his brains In cradle of the rude imperious surge, And in the visitation of the winds, Who take the ruffian billows by the top, Curling their monstrous heads, and hanging them With deafening clamour in the slippery clouds, That, with the hurly, death itself awakes?
Página 102 - There is a spot of earth supremely blest, A dearer, sweeter spot than all the rest...
Página 311 - They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters ; These see the works of the Lord, and his wonders in the deep.
Página 197 - IF thou would'st view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale moon-light; For the gay beams of lightsome day Gild, but to flout, the ruins gray.
Página 247 - From harmony, from heavenly harmony, This universal frame began : From harmony to harmony Through all the compass of the notes it ran, The diapason closing full in Man.
Página 312 - When the devil was sick, the devil a monk would be, When the devil was well, the devil a monk was he.
Página 153 - He maketh the deep to boil like a pot: he maketh the sea like a pot of ointment. He maketh a path to shine after him ; one would think the deep to be hoary.
Página 176 - But our flower was in flushing, When blighting was nearest. Fleet foot on the correi, Sage counsel in cumber, Red hand in the foray, How sound is thy slumber ! Like the dew on the mountain, Like the foam on the river, Like the bubble on the fountain, Thou art gone, and for ever ! XVII.
Página 133 - The wood was sere, the moon i' the wane, The reek o' the cot hung over the plain, Like a little wee cloud in the world its lane ; When the ingle lowed with an eiry leme, Late, late in the gloamin...
Página 305 - There's a sweet little cherub that sits up aloft, To keep watch for the life of poor Jack!