| 1854 - 576 pagina’s
...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 ,ri,*antic game, along the coast of Brazil. No sea but what is vexed by their fisheries. No climate... | |
| William Sherwood - 1856 - 466 pagina’s
...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...pursue their gigantic game, along the coast of Brazil. No sea but that is vexed by their fisheries. No climate that is not witness to their toils. Neither... | |
| Joseph Gales - 1824 - 872 pagina’s
...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...pursue their gigantic game along the coast of Brazil. No sea but what is vexed by their fisheries. No climate that is not witness to their toilS. • Neither... | |
| 1857 - 614 pagina’s
...serpent of the South. Nor is the equinoctial heat more discouraging to them, than the acccumulated winter of both the poles. We learn that while some...pursue their gigantic game along the coast of Brazil." Ol WHALING IMPLEMENTS. Cl) Boat Hatchet; (2) Boat Knife; (3) Boat Spade; (4) Whale-lance ; (S)Harpoon.... | |
| David Addison Harsha - 1857 - 544 pagina’s
...them than the accumulated winter of both the poles. We know that while some of them draw the line and strike the harpoon on the coast of Africa, others...pursue their gigantic game along the coast of Brazil. No sea but what is vexed by their fisheries, No climate that is not witness to their toils. Neither... | |
| Anna Ella Carroll - 1857 - 628 pagina’s
...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...pursue their gigantic game along the coast of Brazil. No sea but what is vexed by their fisheries. No climate that is not witness to their toils. Neither... | |
| George Bancroft - 1858 - 454 pagina’s
...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...pursue their gigantic game along the coast of Brazil. No sea but what is vexed by their fisheries. No climate that is not witness to their toils. CHAP. XXIV.... | |
| Antoinette Knowles - 1916 - 376 pagina’s
...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...pursue their gigantic game along the coast of Brazil. No sea but what is vexed by their fisheries; no climate that is not witness to their toil. Neither... | |
| William Brown Meloney - 1916 - 202 pagina’s
...them than the accumulated winter of both the poles. We know that while some of them draw the line and strike the harpoon on the coast of Africa, others...pursue their gigantic game along the coast of Brazil. No sea but what is vexed by their fisheries, no climate that is not a witness to their toil. Neither... | |
| Charles Lyon Chandler - 1917 - 208 pagina’s
...and resting place in the progress of their victorious industry. Whilst some of them draw the line and strike the harpoon on the coast of Africa, others...pursue their gigantic game along the coast of Brazil." It is almost more than a coincidence that Capt. Uriah Bunker returned to Nantucket on April I gth,... | |
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