Old Cape Cod: The Land, the Men, the SeaHoughton Mifflin, 1920 - 298 páginas |
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... TOWNS 1 19 56 IV . THE FRENCH WARS 97 V. THE ENGLISH WARS 118 VI . THEOLOGY AND WHALING 158 VII . STORMS AND PIRATES 176 VIII . OLD SEA WAYS 203 IX : THE CAPTAINS 221 X. THE COUNTY 259 XI . GENIUS LOCI 291 THE TH AE TH TH TH TH THE ...
... TOWNS 1 19 56 IV . THE FRENCH WARS 97 V. THE ENGLISH WARS 118 VI . THEOLOGY AND WHALING 158 VII . STORMS AND PIRATES 176 VIII . OLD SEA WAYS 203 IX : THE CAPTAINS 221 X. THE COUNTY 259 XI . GENIUS LOCI 291 THE TH AE TH TH TH TH THE ...
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... town and take the next road eastward - there is always a difference in the scene . Perhaps at no point is it more lovely than at Wellfleet , where the bluffs curve gently to a promontory and the surf , touched by a stray shaft of ...
... town and take the next road eastward - there is always a difference in the scene . Perhaps at no point is it more lovely than at Wellfleet , where the bluffs curve gently to a promontory and the surf , touched by a stray shaft of ...
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... town is comfortably full of its own people busy about their affairs , which more often than not means preparing for the har- vest that summer is to bring them . The harbor is a picture at high tide or low , with the boats anchored in ...
... town is comfortably full of its own people busy about their affairs , which more often than not means preparing for the har- vest that summer is to bring them . The harbor is a picture at high tide or low , with the boats anchored in ...
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... town were imported by returning shipmasters who , in more fertile regions , steved their holds with loam for ballast and dumped it in their own front yards . However that may be , the little gardens are as pretty as in any English ...
... town were imported by returning shipmasters who , in more fertile regions , steved their holds with loam for ballast and dumped it in their own front yards . However that may be , the little gardens are as pretty as in any English ...
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... towns nearer the mainland are creeks and brooks and tiny runlets , flooded cranberry swamps , a ditch choked with the lush growth it nour- ishes ; or near the beach a peat bog may wink un- expectedly from its bosky rim where a colony of ...
... towns nearer the mainland are creeks and brooks and tiny runlets , flooded cranberry swamps , a ditch choked with the lush growth it nour- ishes ; or near the beach a peat bog may wink un- expectedly from its bosky rim where a colony of ...
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Términos y frases comunes
adventure American Amos Otis ashore Barnstable beach boat Boston Brewster British cabin called Cape Cod Cape Cod Bay captain cargo church coast Cobb colonies command Court crew dollars early Eastham embargo England English Falmouth farm father fish fortune Freeman French Governor harbor Harwich hills hundred Indians Island James Otis John King Philip's War land later liberty lived loved Mashpee Massachusetts master Mayo ment miles morning mother Nathaniel Freeman natives Nauset neighbors never night ocean OLD CAPE COD Otis Pilgrims pilot pirate Plymouth port pounds Provincetown Provincetown Harbor Quakers returned Rich sailed sailors salt sand Sandwich schooner sent settlement ship shoals shore South spirit Standish storm story tion took Tory town trade Truro turned vessel village voyage Wellfleet whale Whig William wind winter wood wrecked writes wrote Yankee Yarmouth
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Página 175 - Straits, whilst we are looking for them beneath the arctic circle, we hear that they have pierced into the opposite region of polar cold ; that they are at the antipodes, and engaged under the frozen serpent of the south. Falkland Island, which seemed too remote and romantic an object for the grasp of national ambition, is but a stage and restingplace in the progress of their victorious industry.
Página 175 - Nor is the equinoctial heat more discouraging to them than the accumulated winter of both the poles. We know that whilst some of them draw the line and strike the harpoon on the coast of Africa, others run the longitude and pursue their gigantic game along the coast of Brazil.
Página 45 - ... they four in one day killed as much fowl, as with a little help beside, served the company almost a week, at which time amongst other recreations, we exercised our arms, many of the Indians coming amongst us, and...
Página 45 - Massasoyt, with some ninety men, whom for three days we entertained and feasted; and they went out and killed five deer, which they brought to the plantation, and bestowed on our governor, and upon the captain and others.
Página 26 - In ye name of God, Amen. We whose names are underwriten, the loyall subjects of our dread soveraigne Lord, King James, by ye grace of God, of Great Britaine, Franc, & Ireland king, defender of ye faith, &c., haveing undertaken, for ye glorie of God, and advancemente of ye Christian faith, and honour of our king & countrie, a voyage to plant ye first colonie in ye Northerne parts of Virginia...
Página 32 - ... the Lord had more truth and light yet to break forth out of his Holy Word.
Página 39 - Lastly, (and which was not least,) a great hope and inward zeal they had of laying some good foundation, or at least to make some way thereunto, for the propagating and advancing the gospel of the kingdom of Christ in those remote parts of the world; yea, though they should be but even as stepping-stones unto others for the performing of so great a work.
Página 26 - ... ends aforesaid ; and by vertue hearof to enacte, constitute, and frame such just & equall lawes, ordinances, acts, constitutions, & offices, from time to time, as shall be thought most meete & convenient for ye generall good of ye Colonie, unto which we promise all due submission and obedience.
Página 78 - Much spoyle can be made by selling ye whole lot to Barbadoes where slaves fetch good prices in rumme and sugar, and we shall not only do ye Lord greate service by punishing ye wicked, but we shall make great gayne for his ministers and people.
Página 280 - For unto us was the Gospel preached, as well as unto them : but the word preached did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in them that heard it.