A voyage in the 'Sunbeam'.Longmans, Green, and Company, 1878 - 511 páginas |
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A Voyage in the 'Sunbeam': Our Home on the Ocean for Eleven Months Annie Brassey Vista previa restringida - 2010 |
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afternoon afterwards anchor appeared arrived ashore beautiful bêche-de-mer birds blue boat Bow Island breakfast breeze bright brought calm canoe Cape CAPE FROWARD Cape Pillar Captain carriage Cauquenes Chinese cocoa-nut colour coral crew crowded dark deck dinner dressed English feet fire fish flowers four fresh friends Fuegians garden half-past harbour Harry Parkes Honolulu horses hour island Japanese Kilauea land light looked looking-glasses Mabelle Mikado miles Monkshaven morning mountains natives night nine o'clock o'clock once party passed Penang pleasant port reached reef returned river road rocks round sails sampans Saturday schooner seemed seen sent shade ship shore side soon sort steam steamer Straits Straits of Magellan Suez Sunbeam Sunday surrounded Tahiti temple to-day town trees Valparaiso vegetation verandah vessel voyage walk weather wind yacht yellow Yokohama
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Página 426 - Death closes all: but something ere the end, Some work of noble note, may yet be done, Not unbecoming men that strove with Gods. The lights begin to twinkle from the rocks: The long day wanes: the...
Página 408 - I travelled among unknown men In lands beyond the sea; Nor, England ! did I know till then What love I bore to thee. 'Tis past, that melancholy dream ! Nor will I quit thy shore A second time; for still I seem To love thee more and more. Among thy mountains did I feel The joy of my desire; And she I...
Página 216 - O! the one life within us and abroad, Which meets all motion and becomes its soul, A light in sound, a sound-like power in light Rhythm in all thought, and joyance...
Página 232 - Not two inches beneath the surface, the grey lava on which we were standing and sitting was red-hot. A stick thrust through it caught fire, a piece of paper was immediately destroyed, and the gentlemen found the heat from the crevices so great that they could not approach near enough to light their pipes. One more long last look, and then we turned our faces away from the scene that had enthralled us for so many hours. The whole of the lava we had crossed, in the extinct crater, was now aglow in...
Página 7 - I was awakened by a tremendous weight of water suddenly descending upon me and flooding the bed. I immediately sprang out, only to find myself in another pool on the floor. It was pitch dark, and I could not think what had happened ; so I rushed on deck, and found that, the weather having moderated a little, some kind sailor, knowing my love of fresh air, had opened the skylight rather too soon ; and one of the angry waves had popped on board, deluging the cabin. I got a light, and proceeded to mop...
Página 34 - The breath of the moist earth is light, Around its unexpanded buds ; Like many a voice of one delight, The winds, the birds, the ocean floods, The City's voice itself is soft like Solitude's.
Página iii - SUNBEAM ' ; OUR HOME ON THE OCEAN FOR ELEVEN MONTHS.
Página 221 - Tahiti — a coloured long-sleeved loose gown reaching to the feet. The natives here appear to affect duller colours than those we have lately been accustomed to, lilac, drab, brown, and other dark prints being the favourite tints. Whenever I stopped to look at a view, one of the girls would come behind me and throw a lei of flowers over my head, fasten it round my neck, and then run away laughing, to a distance, to judge the effect.
Página 226 - We succeeded, however, in finding a few good specimens, and, by wrapping them at once in paper and cotton-wool and putting them into a bottle, hope to bring them home uninjured. On our return we found a gentleman who had just arrived from Kau, and who proposed to join us in our expedition to the crater, and at three o'clock in the afternoon we set out, a party of eight, with two guides, and three .porters to carry our wraps and provisions, and to bring back specimens. Before leaving the inn the landlord...
Página 229 - ... at last, when we had to pass to leeward of the molten stream flowing from the lake, the vapours almost choked us, and it was with difficulty we continued to advance. The lava was more glassy and transparent-looking, as if it had been fused at a higher temperature than usual ; and the crystals of sulphur, alum, and other minerals, with which it abounded, reflected the light in bright prismatic colours. In places it was quite transparent, and we could see beneath it the long streaks of a stringy...