The Three Voyages of Captain James Cook Around the World, Volumen4Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1821 |
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Página 209 - I had now made the circuit of the Southern Ocean in a high Latitude and traversed it in such a manner as to leave not the least room for the Possibility of there being a continent, unless near the Pole and out of the reach of Navigation...
Página 256 - It doth not become me to say how far the principal objects of our voyage have been obtained. Though it hath not abounded with remarkable events, nor been diversified by sudden transitions of fortune; though my relation of it has been more employed in tracing our course by sea, than in recording our...
Página 90 - They were curious in examining every part of the ship, which they viewed with uncommon attention. They had not the least knowledge of goats, hogs, dogs, or cats, and had not even a name for one of them. They seemed fond of large spike-nails, and pieces of red cloth, or indeed of any other colour, but red was their favourite.
Página 163 - Madeira wine left, which was the only article of our provision that was mended by keeping. So that our friends in England did not, perhaps, celebrate Christmas more cheerfully than we did.
Página 97 - Forsters and myself did but taste. About three o'clock in the morning, we found ourselves seized with an extraordinary weakness and numbness all over our limbs. I had almost lost the sense of feeling, nor could I distinguish between light and heavy bodies, of such as I had strength to move; a quart pot full of water and a feather being the same in my hand.
Página 181 - ... beating off every other male who attempted to come into his flock. Others again had a less number; some no more than one or two; and here and there we have seen one lying growling in a retired, place, alone, and suffering neither males nor females to approach him: We judged these were old and superannuated.
Página 189 - The wild rocks raised their lofty summits till they were lost in the clouds, and the valleys lay covered with everlasting snow. Not a tree was to be seen, not a shrub even big enough to make a tooth-pick.
Página 70 - I mean when confined within the '«' streight stays of Aristotle. Nay, even so great ." an advocate for him as Mr. Pope acknowledges *« them to be surprising. But since I have seen *« what these people can do with their wooden spears, «'' and them badly pointed, and not of a very hard •*' nature, I have not the least exception to any *« one passage in that great poet on this account. •" But, if I see fewer exceptions, I can find infinitely •" more beauties in him; as he has, I think...
Página 187 - At four in the morning of the 16th we wore and stood to the east, with the wind at SSE, a moderate breeze, and fair; at eight o'clock saw the land extending from E. by N. to NE by N.; loosed a reef out of each top-sail, got top-gallant yards across, and set the sails. At noon observed in latitude 54° 25' 1/2, longitude 38° 18
Página 23 - SE point of the harbour, where we again landed and walked along the beach till we could see the islands to the SE already mentioned. The names of these we now obtained, as well as the name of that on which we were. This they called Mallicollo ;* the island that first appeared over the south end of Ambrym is called Apee ; and the other with the hill upon it Paoom.