Maritime Discovery: A History of Nautical Exploration from the Earliest Times, Volume 2Newman and Company, 1881 - Discoveries in geography |
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Maritime Discovery: A History of Nautical Exploration from the ..., Volume 1 Charles Rathbone Low No preview available - 2016 |
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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 Falkland Islands February filibusters fleet following day Franklin French gave the name Guayaquil 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 Repulse Bay river Ross Santa Schouten seamen 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
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Page 135 - 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 could not see, the kindly human face, Nor ever hear a kindly voice, but heard The myriad shriek of wheeling ocean-fowl, The league-long roller thundering on the reef, The moving whisper of huge trees that branch'd And blossom'd in the zenith, or the sweep Of some precipitous rivulet to the wave...
Page 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...
Page 135 - Sat often in the seaward-gazing gorge, A shipwreck'd sailor, waiting for a sail : No sail from day to day, but every day The sunrise broken into scarlet shafts Among the palms and ferns and precipices...
Page 133 - ... flesh, by which many of them became so tame, that they would lie about him in hundreds, and soon delivered Him from the rats. He likewise tamed some kids, and to divert himself would, now and then, sing and dance with them and his cats ; so that, by the care of Providence, and vigour of his youth, being now...
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 146 - 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 moonshine.
Page 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!
Page 132 - He told us that he was born at Largo in the county of Fife in Scotland, and was bred a sailor from his youth. The reason of his being left here was a difference betwixt him and his Captain...
Page 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...