The Sea Lions: Or, the Lost SealersGeorge Routledge and Sons, 1854 - 339 páginas |
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... Seal , and Brook , since called Saybrook , near two centuries before , to lay out a town and a fort . This Lyon Gardiner had purchased of the Indians the island in that neighbourhood , which still bears his name . This establish- ment ...
... Seal , and Brook , since called Saybrook , near two centuries before , to lay out a town and a fort . This Lyon Gardiner had purchased of the Indians the island in that neighbourhood , which still bears his name . This establish- ment ...
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... seals , having some such effect on the imagination of a true Suffolk county man , or more properly on that of an East - ender , as those who live beyond Riverhead are termed , as a glowing account of a prairie covered with wheat has on ...
... seals , having some such effect on the imagination of a true Suffolk county man , or more properly on that of an East - ender , as those who live beyond Riverhead are termed , as a glowing account of a prairie covered with wheat has on ...
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... seals and the treasure . This he had done with Daggett's knowledge and acquiescence ; nor did he conceive that his own rights were lessened by the mariner's decease . As for himself , the deacon had never believed that the Martha's ...
... seals and the treasure . This he had done with Daggett's knowledge and acquiescence ; nor did he conceive that his own rights were lessened by the mariner's decease . As for himself , the deacon had never believed that the Martha's ...
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... seals , the man who wishes to find either , in these times , has to look for them , as I tell my owner . According to reports , the time has been when a craft had only to get an offing to fall in with something that was worth putting a ...
... seals , the man who wishes to find either , in these times , has to look for them , as I tell my owner . According to reports , the time has been when a craft had only to get an offing to fall in with something that was worth putting a ...
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... seals lie about on the beach like pigs in a pen , sunning themselves ? Would you not call a chart so noted a treasure ? " 66 " That would alter the case , sure enough , " returned Gardiner , laughing ; though I should not think of ...
... seals lie about on the beach like pigs in a pen , sunning themselves ? Would you not call a chart so noted a treasure ? " 66 " That would alter the case , sure enough , " returned Gardiner , laughing ; though I should not think of ...
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answered antarctic antarctic circle believe bergs berth better boat boat-steerer called camboose Cape Cape Horn Captain Daggett Captain Gar'ner chart chief mate clear coast cold consort course cove craft crew danger Deacon Pratt deck distance doubloons drift eyes feel floe gale Gardiner's hands Harbour Hazard heart hope hour island keep knew latitude leeward light Lion of Oyster look mariner Martha's Vineyard Mary Pratt master mate means miles mind nature nearly never niece night ocean once owner Oyster Pond passage passed reason render rocks Roswell Gardiner Roswell's sail schooner Sea Lion sealers seals seaman seen Shelter Island snow soon sort southward spermaceti spot Stephen Stimson stood Suffolk tell things thought uncle vessel Vineyard voyage weather whale whole wind windward winter wreck young
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Página 75 - And I have loved thee, Ocean ! and my joy Of youthful sports was on thy breast to be Borne, like thy bubbles, onward : from a boy I wantoned with thy breakers — they to me Were a delight : and if the freshening sea Made them a terror — 'twas a pleasing fear, For I was as it were a child of thee, And trusted to thy billows far and near, And laid my hand upon thy mane — as I do here.
Página 212 - em to be, now, almost as useful as almanacs. Read what it says about the seasons, child." " It says, sir, that the changes in the seasons are owing to ' the inclination of the earth's axis to the plane of its orbit.
Página 156 - all work, and no play, makes Jack a dull boy...
Página 72 - And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom ye will serve ; whether the gods which your fathers* served that were on the other side of the flood, t or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell : but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.
Página 87 - Roll on, thou deep and dark blue ocean, roll! Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain ; Man marks the earth with ruin — his control Stops with the shore ; upon the watery plain The wrecks are all thy deed...
Página 212 - 'arth's orbit has an inclination towards changes,' you say." "The changes in the seasons, sir, are owing to 'the inclination of the earth's axis to the plane of its orbit.
Página 64 - WALK in the light ! so shalt thou know That fellowship of love, His Spirit only can bestow, Who reigns in light above. 2 Walk in the light...