Maritime Discovery: A History of Nautical Exploration from the Earliest Times, Volume 2Newman and Company, 1881 |
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Veelvoorkomende woorden en zinsdelen
Acapulco Admiral anchored April Arctic arrived August Barentz Batavia boats Bougainville buccaneers called canoes Cape Horn Captain Carteret Captain Cook Captain Wallis captured Centurion circumnavigated coast command Commodore Anson Commodore Byron continued crew cruise Dampier Davis December despatched discovered discoveries Dutch East India English expedition explored February filibusters fleet following day Franklin French gave the name Guayaquil Guinea guns harbour honour Indies island Isle January Juan Fernandez July June land later latitude leagues Lieutenant Maire March miles natives navigator North-west Passage northward Nova Zembla November October officers party passed Peru pieces-of-eight pirates Pitcairn Island plunder Port prisoners prize proceeded provisions Quiros river Ross Santa Schouten seamen Sebald de Weert sent September Shelvocke ships sailed shore sighted South Sea Spain Spaniards Spanish Spitzbergen squadron steered Straits of Magellan Tahiti Tasman tons vessels visited voyage whence William Dampier
Populaire passages
Pagina 146 - 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' hollo! In mist or cloud, on mast or shroud, It perched for vespers nine; Whiles all the night, through fog-smoke white, Glimmered the white moon-shine.
Pagina 135 - The mountain wooded to the peak, the lawns And winding glades high up like ways to Heaven, The slender coco's drooping crown of plumes, The lightning flash of insect and of bird, The lustre of the long convolvuluses That coil'd around the stately stems, and ran Ev'n to the limit of the land, the glows And glories of the broad belt of the world, All these he saw ; but what he fain had seen He...
Pagina 302 - Beyond this flood a frozen continent Lies dark and wild, beat with perpetual storms Of whirlwind and dire hail, which on firm land Thaws not; but gathers heap, and ruin seems Of ancient pile: all else deep snow and ice...
Pagina 135 - The blaze upon the waters to the east ; The blaze upon his island overhead...
Pagina 291 - Miserable they! Who, here entangled in the gathering ice, Take their last look of the descending sun; While, full of death, and fierce with tenfold frost, The long long night, incumbent o'er their heads, Falls horrible.
Pagina 279 - And down she suck'd with her the whirling wave, Like one who grapples with his enemy, And strives to strangle him before he die.
Pagina 313 - Thy trees, fair Windsor ! now shall leave their woods, And half thy forests rush into my floods, Bear Britain's thunder, and her cross display, To the bright regions of the rising day...
Pagina 287 - Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world, Like a Colossus ; and we petty men Walk under his huge legs, and peep about To find ourselves dishonourable graves.
Pagina 325 - Her rattling shrouds, all sheathed in ice, With the masts went by the board ; Like a vessel of glass, she stove and sank, Ho ! ho ! the breakers roared.
Pagina 257 - To this disappointment we owed our having it in our power to revisit the Sandwich Islands, and to enrich our voyage with a discovery which, though the last, seemed, in many respects, to be the most important that had hitherto been made by Europeans throughout the extent of the Pacific Ocean.