| 1821 - 438 pages
...arrived. They 1 1. id the mortification, however, to find that the boats, through fear of heing dashed to pieces, were obliged to keep aloof. At length it was...throw coils of rope upon the rock, which the men tied rpund, them, and were dragged on board through the sea, The case of one of these poor ; L-Iloivs, who... | |
| Old Sailor - Naval biography - 1826 - 534 pages
...arrived. They had the mortification, however, to find that the boats, through fear of being dashed in pieces, were obliged to keep aloof. At length it...round them, and were dragged on board' through the sea. The case of one of these poor fellows, who was above ninety years of age, was singular. As he... | |
| 1832 - 618 pages
...arrived. They had the mortification, however, to find that the boats, through fear of being dashed to pieces, were obliged to keep aloof. At length, it...round them, and were dragged on board through the sea. The case of one of these poor fellows, who was above ninety years of age, was singular. As he... | |
| Chronicles of the sea - 1838 - 488 pages
...arrived. They had the mortification, however, to find that the boats, through fear of being dashed in pieces, were obliged to keep aloof. At length it...round them, and were dragged on board through the sea. The case of one of hese poor fellows, who was above ninety years of age, vas singular. As he had... | |
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