 | General history - 1814 - 798 páginas
...seemed to be so near. '-> While we were thus employed, day broke upon us, and we saw the land at about eight leagues distance, without any island in the intermediate space, upon which, if tlie ship should have gone to pieces, we might have heen set ashore by the boats, and from which... | |
 | 1815 - 476 páginas
...except by the heaving of the surge, which beat her against the crags of the rock upon which she lay, and caused so violent a concussion, that it was with the...however, died away, till it became a dead calm, by which she escaped instant and inevitable destruction. At eleven in the forenoon it was high water; but so... | |
 | Robert Kerr - 1815 - 534 páginas
...seemed to be so near. While we were thus employed, day broke upon us, and we saw the land at about eight leagues distance, without any island in the intermediate space, upon which, if the ship should have gone to pieces, we might have been set ashore by the boats, and from which... | |
 | Robert Kerr - 1815 - 550 páginas
...seemed to be so near. While we were thus employed, day broke upon us, and we saw the land at about eight leagues distance, without any island in the intermediate space, upon which, if the ship should have gone to pieces, we might have been set ashore by the boats, and from which... | |
 | John Campbell - 1818 - 520 páginas
...which beating her against the craggs of the rock on which she lay, caused so violent a con7 cussion, that it was with the utmost difficulty any one on...dawn of day, land appeared at eight leagues distance, with* out any island in the intermediate space upon which they might be set on shore by the boats,... | |
 | Andrew Kippis - 1824 - 186 páginas
...llth of June presented them with a fuller prospect of their danger. The land was seen by them at about eight leagues distance, without any island in the intermediate space, upon which, if the ship had gone to pieces, they might have been set ashore by the boats, and carried thence by... | |
 | Robert Kerr - 1824 - 528 páginas
...seemed to be so near. \Vhile we were thus employed, day broke upon us, and we saw the land at about eight leagues distance, without any island in the intermediate space, 'upon which, if the ship should have gone to pieces, we might have been set ashore by the boats, and from which... | |
 | Andrew Kippis - 1826 - 464 páginas
...llth of Jane presented them with a fuller prospect of their danger. The land was seen by them at about eight leagues distance, without any island in the intermediate space, upon which, if the ship had gone to pieces, they might have been set ashore by the boats, and carried thence by... | |
 | James Cook - 1842 - 636 páginas
...death seemed to be so near. While we were thus employed day broke upon us, and we saw the land at about eight leagues distance, without any island in the intermediate space, upon which, if the shi|i should have gone to pieces, we might have been set ashore by the boats, and from which... | |
 | James Grant - 1852 - 390 páginas
...seemed to be so near. " While we were thus employed, day broke upon us, and we saw the land at about eight leagues' distance, without any island in the intermediate space, upon which, if the ship should hare gone to pieces, we might have been set ashore by the boats, and from which... | |
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... should have gone to pieces, we might have been set ashore by the boats, and from which they might have taken us by different turns to the main; the wind, however, gradually died away and early in the forenoon it was a dead calm; if it had blown hard... 
