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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... brought into no- tice , or of any other , it may prove somewhat enter- taining , and not quite destitute of instruction ; and that all who are induced to purchase a copy of this little production , may realize in its perusal an ...
... brought into no- tice , or of any other , it may prove somewhat enter- taining , and not quite destitute of instruction ; and that all who are induced to purchase a copy of this little production , may realize in its perusal an ...
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... brought up in any other way . It was likewise generally kept open for purposes of air - draft in the summer time or when the weather was genial . It was wide open as I stood one day in the summer , right by it , stooping over the curb ...
... brought up in any other way . It was likewise generally kept open for purposes of air - draft in the summer time or when the weather was genial . It was wide open as I stood one day in the summer , right by it , stooping over the curb ...
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... brought me hastily away , satisfied that " this was thusly . " It is only from about the end of June till about the middle of September , that this limb of ocean is navigable . All the remainder of the year it is blocked . One huge ...
... brought me hastily away , satisfied that " this was thusly . " It is only from about the end of June till about the middle of September , that this limb of ocean is navigable . All the remainder of the year it is blocked . One huge ...
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... of Turks , if not absent on some fishing or hunting expedition ; they , in having brought in the game and flayed it , having done all required of them , 66 all else in the manufacture , from curing the raw 92 EIGHTEEN MONTHS.
... of Turks , if not absent on some fishing or hunting expedition ; they , in having brought in the game and flayed it , having done all required of them , 66 all else in the manufacture , from curing the raw 92 EIGHTEEN MONTHS.
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... brought by the whale ; and though it can not be denied that he is good authority for the fact , the whale is ahead of him not only in time , but in strength of testimony , inasmuch as he , having to leave his vessel behind him in the ...
... brought by the whale ; and though it can not be denied that he is good authority for the fact , the whale is ahead of him not only in time , but in strength of testimony , inasmuch as he , having to leave his vessel behind him in the ...
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Eighteen Months on a Greenland Whaler (Classic Reprint) Joseph P. Faulkner Sin vista previa disponible - 2017 |
Términos y frases comunes
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!