Thomas Dover (of Dover's Powder): Physician and BuccaneerFriedenwald Company, 1896 - 18 páginas |
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Página 3 - Herostratus lives that burnt the temple of Diana, he is almost lost that built it ; Time hath spared the epitaph of Adrian's horse, confounded that of himself. In vain we compute our felicities by the advantage of our good names, since bad have...
Página 8 - He told us that his agility in pursuing a goat had once like to have cost him his life: he pursued it with so much eagerness...
Página 15 - I had no fire allowed in my room, my windows were constantly open, my bedclothes were ordered to be laid no higher than my waist. He made me take twelve bottles of small beer, acidulated with spirit of vitriol, every twenty-four hours.
Página 7 - He diverted himself and provided for his sustenance as well as he could ; but had much ado to bear up against melancholy for the first eight months, and was sore distressed at being left alone in such a desolate place. He built himself two huts...
Página 9 - He came at last to relish his meat well enough without salt or bread ; and in the season had plenty of good turnips, which had been sowed there by Captain Dampier's men, and have now overspread some acres of ground. He had enough of good cabbage from the...
Página 8 - These he sometimes boiled, and at other times broiled ; as he did his goat's flesh, of which he made very good broth, for they are not so rank as ours. He kept an account of 500 that he killed while there, and caught as many more, which he marked on the ear, and let go. When his powder failed, he took them by speed of...
Página 8 - When his powder failed, he took them by speed of foot; for his way of living and continual exercise of walking and running cleared him of all gross humours, so that he ran with wonderful swiftness through the woods and up the rocks and hills, as we perceived when we employed him to catch goats for us. We had a...
Página 7 - Spaniards had landed, before he knew what they were, and they came so near him that he had much ado to escape: for they not only shot at him but pursued him into the woods...
Página 8 - At first he never ate anything till hunger constrained him, partly for grief, and partly for want of bread and salt : nor did he go to bed, till he could watch no longer ; the pimento wood, which burnt very clear, served him both for fire and candle, and refreshed him with its fragrant smell.
Página 9 - He soon wore out all his shoes and clothes by running through the woods; and at last, being forced to shift without them, his feet became so hard that he ran everywhere without difficulty, and it was some time before he could wear shoes after we found him; for, not being used to any so long, his feet swelled when he came first to wear them again. After he had conquered his melancholy, he diverted himself sometimes...