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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... soon as sufficiently whole I volun- teered , passed the surgical examination necessary and became enrolled as " food for powder , " and one of my country's " stays in day and hour of danger " in the 107th Regiment N. Y. S. V. This was ...
... soon as sufficiently whole I volun- teered , passed the surgical examination necessary and became enrolled as " food for powder , " and one of my country's " stays in day and hour of danger " in the 107th Regiment N. Y. S. V. This was ...
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... soon showed.im- provement , so that when one of the men to break the monotony tried to palm off a rock on the horizon upon me for a whale , I detected the im- posture and indignantly resented the unwarranted liberty by telling him " he ...
... soon showed.im- provement , so that when one of the men to break the monotony tried to palm off a rock on the horizon upon me for a whale , I detected the im- posture and indignantly resented the unwarranted liberty by telling him " he ...
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... soon found to be what it was - no easy task - similar , I thought , to praiseworthy exertions made by some votary of Terpsichore , waltzing through a crowded ball - room . Soon the icebergs became less numer- ous , yielding precedence ...
... soon found to be what it was - no easy task - similar , I thought , to praiseworthy exertions made by some votary of Terpsichore , waltzing through a crowded ball - room . Soon the icebergs became less numer- ous , yielding precedence ...
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... Soon all around the white - fretted and irregular surface of the floes , spread out till we found our- selves completely environed by them , and they were so closely conjoined that breaks extending along or through large masses could ...
... Soon all around the white - fretted and irregular surface of the floes , spread out till we found our- selves completely environed by them , and they were so closely conjoined that breaks extending along or through large masses could ...
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... Soon all of us were Reefing some sails , on deck or scrambling aloft . setting others , and making hurriedly all the re- quired changes to catch the wind from an altered course , was the business that now engaged us . Then , after a ...
... Soon all of us were Reefing some sails , on deck or scrambling aloft . setting others , and making hurriedly all the re- quired changes to catch the wind from an altered course , was the business that now engaged us . Then , after a ...
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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 close cold crew danger deck distance dogs Esquimaux fantastic light feet felt floes flukes followed forecastle gale gave give Greenland 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 mind 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 sperm whale stood supply suppose surface taking thing thought tion turn vessel voyage walrus watch waves whale wind winter
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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!