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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... I would inform all and sundry , that with the leisure I enjoy , and greater facilities as well as improved opportuni- ties I possess for getting up the present volume , while the scene is the identical one occupied by my PREFACE . ix.
... I would inform all and sundry , that with the leisure I enjoy , and greater facilities as well as improved opportuni- ties I possess for getting up the present volume , while the scene is the identical one occupied by my PREFACE . ix.
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... present gigantic stature of five feet four inches in my boots . I was fast settling down into a manhood of steady habits , of industry and of temperance . Every promise of good citizenship budded and bade fair to blossom in my career ...
... present gigantic stature of five feet four inches in my boots . I was fast settling down into a manhood of steady habits , of industry and of temperance . Every promise of good citizenship budded and bade fair to blossom in my career ...
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... a good deal of service before quitting it , being present and having an hand in many hard battles and tough minor engage- ments , besides doing some tall marching through old Virginia clay , as elsewhere . In May , 14 INTRODUCTION .
... a good deal of service before quitting it , being present and having an hand in many hard battles and tough minor engage- ments , besides doing some tall marching through old Virginia clay , as elsewhere . In May , 14 INTRODUCTION .
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... presents , a new front of obstruction is often ] shown where only destruction gapes . Re- treat is then too generally cut off . The mass in constant motion closes , like a pair of pinchers upon the vessel , and in so doing jams and ...
... presents , a new front of obstruction is often ] shown where only destruction gapes . Re- treat is then too generally cut off . The mass in constant motion closes , like a pair of pinchers upon the vessel , and in so doing jams and ...
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... present to the mind which the actual occurrence must at once bring out , as man and his works are about to shrink into utter ruin , like a pasteboard box and its contents before the stupendous presence of Nature's agents - their energy ...
... present to the mind which the actual occurrence must at once bring out , as man and his works are about to shrink into utter ruin , like a pasteboard box and its contents before the stupendous presence of Nature's agents - their energy ...
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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!