The RecreationJohn Menzies, 1843 |
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aloft animals appeared arrived ascended bank boat brought buffaloes called Cape Horn Caria Chinhae Cingalese clewlines clothes companions dark deck descend distance door Dragomanic Ear of Dionysius eight escape eyes feet fire forecastle furled gallery gave Halet haliards Hallein hands head heard Herculaneum horses Indian interro island janissaries John Ledyard journey kalpak Klephts Knox leaving Ledyard length lion looked mate miles monk morning Mount Olympus mountain never night Ningpo o'clock Olympus ourselves party passed Pompeii prairie prisoners reached rigging river Robert Knox rock roof rope round sail sailors scene seemed seen sent ship shore side sight snow soon spontoon spot stood struck studding-sail Sultan Thessaly thing tion Tobolsk told took top-gallant top-mast top-sail travelling turned vessel village walked watch wild wind window Yakutsk yard
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第 281 頁 - Aka-tombo. in the time between the setting of the sun and the rising of the moon — red dragon-flies.
第 42 頁 - A white man, gazing on the scene, Would say a lovely spot was here, And praise the lawns so fresh and green Between the hills so sheer. I like it not — I would the plain Lay in its tall old groves again.
第 154 頁 - ... one is taken suddenly from among them, and they miss him at every turn. It is like losing a limb. There are no new faces or new scenes to fill up the gap. There is always an empty berth in the forecastle, and one man wanting when the small night watch is mustered. There is one less to take the wheel, and one less to lay out with you upon the yard.
第 183 頁 - Another reef out of that fore topsail, and give it to her!" Two hands sprang aloft; the frozen reef-points and earings were cast adrift, the halyards manned, and the sail gave out her increased canvas to the gale. All hands were kept on deck to watch the effect of the change. It was as much as she could well carry, and with a heavy sea astern it took two men at the wheel to steer her. She flung the foam from her bows, the spray breaking aft as far as the gangway. She was going at a prodigious rate....
第 43 頁 - But I behold a fearful sign, To which the white men's eyes are blind ; Their race may vanish hence, like mine, And leave no trace behind, Save ruins o'er the region spread, And the white stones above the dead. Before these fields were shorn and tilled, Full to the brim our rivers flowed ; The melody of waters filled The fresh and boundless wood ; And torrents dashed and rivulets played, And fountains spouted in the shade. Those grateful sounds are heard no more The springs are silent in the sun ;...
第 153 頁 - He was going aloft to fit a strap round the main topmast-head, for ringtail halyards, and had the strap and block, a coil of halyards, and a marline-spike about his neck. He fell from the starboard futtock shrouds, and, not knowing how to swim, and being heavily dressed, with all those things round his neck, he probably sank immediately. We pulled astern, in the direction in which he fell, and though we knew that there was no hope of saving him, yet no one wished to speak of returning, and we rowed...
第 183 頁 - ... our dead reckoning being anywhere near the mark. If it would clear off enough to give a chance for an observation, or if we could make land, we should know where we were; and upon these, and the chances of falling in with a sail from the eastward, we depended almost entirely. Friday, July 22nd.
第 152 頁 - This was a black day in our calendar. At seven o'clock in the morning, it being our watch below, we were aroused from a sound sleep by the cry of " All hands ahoy ! a man overboard...
第 183 頁 - After some time— which seemed for ever— we got the weather side stowed after a fashion, and went over to leeward for another trial. This was still worse, for the body of the sail had been blown over to leeward, and, as the yard was a-cock-bill by the lying over of the vessel, we had to light it all up to windward. When the yard-arms were furled, the bunt was all adrift again, which made more work for us. We got all secure at last, but we had been nearly an hour and a half upon the yard, and it...
第 185 頁 - For more than an hour she was driven on at such a rate that she seemed actually to crowd the sea into a heap before her; and the water poured over the spritsail yard as it would over a dam. Toward daybreak the gale abated a little, and she was just beginning to go more easily along, relieved of the pressure, when Mr. Brown, determined to give her no respite, and depending upon the wind's subsiding as the sun rose, told us to get along the lower studding-sail. This was an immense sail, and held wind...