 | William Fordyce Mavor - 1809 - 400 páginas
...the steersman) answered, that their ships went not out to fish, but only to take in the lading of the fleet, to bring it to an early market. But, said he,...Greenland Company, -sailed unto the north pole and came back again. Whereupon, says Moxon, I entered into discourse with him, and seemed to question the... | |
 | John Barrow - 1818 - 450 páginas
...home, and asked him what accident brought him home so soon; his friend (who was the steer-man aforesaid in a Greenland ship that summer) told him, that their...Greenland Company, sailed unto the north pole and came back again. Whereupon, (his relation being novel to me) I entered into discourse with him, and... | |
 | Sir John Barrow - 1818 - 454 páginas
...and asked him what accident brought him home so soon ; his friend (who was the steer-man aforesaid in a Greenland ship that summer) told him, that their...Greenland Company, sailed unto the north pole and came back again. Whereupon (his relation being novel to me) I entered into discourse with him, and... | |
 | 1824 - 462 páginas
...what accident brought him home so soon : His Frieod (who was the Steer-man aforesaid in a Green/'.W Ship that Summer) told him that their Ship went not...of the whole Fleet, to bring it to an early Market &c. But, said he, before the Fleet had caught Fish enough to lade us, we, by order of the Greenland... | |
 | 1858 - 480 páginas
...asked what accident had brought him home so soon ? His friend (who was the steerman [mate] aforesaid in a Greenland ship that summer) told him that their...Greenland company, sailed unto the north pole, and came back again. Whereupon (his relation being novel to me) I entered into discourse with him, and... | |
 | Frederick Whymper - 1877 - 364 páginas
...home, and asked him what accident brought him home so soon; his friend (who was the steer-man aforesaid in a Greenland ship that summer) told him that their...but only to take in the lading of the whole fleet, and bring it to an early market. But, said he, before the fleet had caught fish enough to lade us,... | |
 | Sir Albert Hastings Markham - 1879 - 456 páginas
...and ask'd him what accident brought him home so soon ? His friend (who was the steer-man, aforesaid, in a Greenland ship that summer) told him that their...of the whole fleet, to bring it to an early market, &c. But, said he, before the fleet had caught fish enough to lade us, we, by order of the Greenland... | |
 | 414 páginas
...home, and asked him what accident brought him home so soon. His friend (who was the steer-man aforesaid in a Greenland ship that summer) told him, that their...us, we, by order of the Greenland Company, sailed into the North Pole, and came back again. Whereupon (his relation being novel to me) I entered into... | |
 | William Clark Russell - 1893 - 352 páginas
..."the ship went not out to fish as usual, but only to take in the lading of the whole fleet," and that "before the fleet had caught fish enough to lade us,...Greenland Company, sailed unto the North Pole and came back again." This greatly amazed Mr. Joseph Moxon, of the Eoyal Society, and he earnestly questioned... | |
 | William John Gordon - 1907 - 464 páginas
...Joseph Moxon, Hydrographer to the King, in 1652 met at Amsterdam a sailor of a Greenland ship which " went not out to fish that summer, but only to take...of the whole fleet to bring it to an early market" — in other words, to act as a carrier — which ship, before the whaling fleet had caught enough... | |
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... in a Greenland ship that summer) told him, that their ship went not out to fish that summer, but only to take in the lading of the whole fleet, to bring it to an early market, But, said he, before the fleet had caught fish enough to lade us, we, by... 