Journal of Commodore Goodenough: During His Last Command as Senior Officer on the Australian Station, 1873-1875H.S. King & Company, 1876 - 369 páginas |
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... trees , like a gigantic gateway , to our station . Everything was dead still as we passed through , except the loud hum of the cicadas . Several canoes of Sumatrans were paddling about , and in the afternoon a Chinese junk came past us ...
... trees , like a gigantic gateway , to our station . Everything was dead still as we passed through , except the loud hum of the cicadas . Several canoes of Sumatrans were paddling about , and in the afternoon a Chinese junk came past us ...
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... trees , and in about ten minutes we drove them out , and tried again to get afloat . We could see the Commodore taking and destroying junks as he went up , some in the very suburb of the city of Fatshan , which stands in the same ...
... trees , and in about ten minutes we drove them out , and tried again to get afloat . We could see the Commodore taking and destroying junks as he went up , some in the very suburb of the city of Fatshan , which stands in the same ...
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... following the windings of some creek , till they disappear or lower their sails behind a mass of wide - spreading , dark - leaved trees , which the village people sit under in front of the waterside . CHAP . II . ] 23 SCENERY .
... following the windings of some creek , till they disappear or lower their sails behind a mass of wide - spreading , dark - leaved trees , which the village people sit under in front of the waterside . CHAP . II . ] 23 SCENERY .
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... Lurzon , ' various islands with grassy knolls and ravines , full of dark scrubby trees , and to - day we are in sight of the north end of Formosa . Yesterday a lovely bird was blown off , and perched 30 [ CHAP . II . COMMODORE GOODENOUGH .
... Lurzon , ' various islands with grassy knolls and ravines , full of dark scrubby trees , and to - day we are in sight of the north end of Formosa . Yesterday a lovely bird was blown off , and perched 30 [ CHAP . II . COMMODORE GOODENOUGH .
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... trees in abundance . The people appear to be very poor and dirty , and afraid of us ; ran to assist us if we wanted a rope hauled , or to turn the vessel in the abrupt winds . The river was full of large junks , which had brought and ...
... trees in abundance . The people appear to be very poor and dirty , and afraid of us ; ran to assist us if we wanted a rope hauled , or to turn the vessel in the abrupt winds . The river was full of large junks , which had brought and ...
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