The Island World of the Pacific: Being ... Travel Through the Sandwich Or Hawiian Islands and Other Parts of PolynesiaHarper & Brothers, 1851 - 406 pagina's |
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Pagina 38
... morning about three o'clock , near the time of summer sun - rising in this high south- ern latitude . As the wind headed us off from our course to Cape Horn , and was fair either to enter or leave this Sound , the captain was persuaded ...
... morning about three o'clock , near the time of summer sun - rising in this high south- ern latitude . As the wind headed us off from our course to Cape Horn , and was fair either to enter or leave this Sound , the captain was persuaded ...
Pagina 57
... again and saluted in the morning . Again , I have seen them gathered by hundreds when the cut- ting - in of a whale alongside allured them from a cir- cuit of five hundred miles . In some whale ships they make a practice of catch- C 2.
... again and saluted in the morning . Again , I have seen them gathered by hundreds when the cut- ting - in of a whale alongside allured them from a cir- cuit of five hundred miles . In some whale ships they make a practice of catch- C 2.
Pagina 64
... Mornings and evenings from Callao , and our anchor is scratching the outer reef round the island heart of the Pacific . This is a sailing distance of more than five thousand miles . Including the time in which we were becalmed in the ...
... Mornings and evenings from Callao , and our anchor is scratching the outer reef round the island heart of the Pacific . This is a sailing distance of more than five thousand miles . Including the time in which we were becalmed in the ...
Pagina 80
... morning , or noon and night , being seldom more than 10 degrees . The highest range ob- served is in June , the lowest in January . The great- est heat noted at Honolulu for twelve years was 90 degrees ; greatest cold , 53 degrees ...
... morning , or noon and night , being seldom more than 10 degrees . The highest range ob- served is in June , the lowest in January . The great- est heat noted at Honolulu for twelve years was 90 degrees ; greatest cold , 53 degrees ...
Pagina 112
... morning and evening ; and when there is a cluster of houses to- gether , he will hear a conch - shell blown at the matin hour to summon the dwellers to the rude school - house for social worship and thanksgiving to the Giver of all Good ...
... morning and evening ; and when there is a cluster of houses to- gether , he will hear a conch - shell blown at the matin hour to summon the dwellers to the rude school - house for social worship and thanksgiving to the Giver of all Good ...
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The Island World of the Pacific: Being ... Travel Through the Sandwich Or ... Henry Theodore Cheever Volledige weergave - 1851 |
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Populaire passages
Pagina 205 - Wisdom and spirit of the universe ! Thou soul that art the eternity of thought, That givest to forms and images a breath And everlasting motion, not in vain By day or star-light thus from my first dawn Of childhood didst thou intertwine for me The passions that build up our human soul...
Pagina 204 - TO him who in the love of nature holds Communion with her visible forms, she speaks A various language; for his gayer hours She has a voice of gladness, and a smile And eloquence of beauty, and she glides Into his darker musings, with a mild And healing sympathy, that steals away Their sharpness, ere he is aware.
Pagina 345 - Eternal HOPE ! when yonder spheres sublime Pealed their first notes to sound the march of Time, Thy joyous youth began — but not to fade. — When all the sister planets have decayed ; When...
Pagina 228 - The tear forgot as soon as shed, The sunshine of the breast: Theirs buxom health, of rosy hue, Wild wit, invention ever new, And lively cheer, of vigor born ; The thoughtless day, the easy night, The spirits pure, the slumbers light That fly the approach of morn.
Pagina 260 - Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness, looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat ? Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.
Pagina 224 - Numbers of all diseased ; all maladies Of ghastly spasm, or racking torture, qualms Of heart-sick agony, all feverous kinds, Convulsions, epilepsies, fierce catarrhs, Intestine stone and ulcer, colic pangs, Demoniac frenzy, moping melancholy, And moon-struck madness, pining atrophy, Marasmus, and wide-wasting pestilence, Dropsies, and asthmas, and joint-racking rheums.
Pagina 160 - Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man's device.
Pagina 109 - There with its waving blade of green. The sea-flag streams through the silent water, And the crimson leaf of the dulse is seen To blush, like a banner bathed in slaughter...
Pagina 37 - At length did cross an Albatross: Thorough the fog it came : As if it had been a Christian soul, We hailed it in God's name. It ate the food it ne'er had eat, And round and round it flew. The ice did split with a thunder-fit; The helmsman steered us through! And a good south wind sprung up behind; The Albatross did follow, And every day, for food or play, Came to the mariners