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מהדורות אחרות - הצג הכל
The History of Australian Discovery and Colonisation (Classic Reprint) <span dir=ltr>Samuel Bennett</span> אין תצוגה מקדימה זמינה - 2018 |
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עמוד 27 - as the Hodmadods have : and setting aside their human shape, they differ but little from brutes. They are tall, strait-bodied and thin, with small long limbs. They have great heads, round foreheads, and great brows. Their eyelids are always half closed, to keep the flies out of their eyes : they being so troublesome
עמוד 26 - It is not yet determined whether it is an island or a main continent; but I am certain that it joins neither to Asia, Africa, nor America. This part of it that we saw is all low even land, with sandy banks against the sea, only
עמוד 97 - They were of the common stature, but rather slender. Their skin was black, and also their hair, which was as woolly as that of any native of Guinea ; but they were not distinguished by remarkably thick lips, nor flat noses. On the contrary, their features were far from being disagreeable.
עמוד 203 - well will play his part, The scene to vary, we shall try in time To treat you with a little pantomime. Here light and easy Columbines are found, And well-tried Harlequins with us abound ; From durance vile our precious selves to keep, We often had recourse to th
עמוד 315 - upon an unknown coast near the antipodes of Europe; nor can any thing be more consonant to the feelings, if pelicans have any, than quietly to resign their breath, whilst surrounded by their progeny, and in the same spot where they first drew it . Alas, for the pelicans
עמוד 77 - it down in handfuls upon the sail as lightly as possible, and over this he spread the dung of our sheep and other filth. When the sail was thus prepared, it was hauled under the ship's bottom by ropes, which kept it extended, and when it came under the leak the suction which
עמוד 32 - The land animals that we saw here were only a sort of racoons, different from those of the West Indies, chiefly as to their legs, for these have very short fore legs, but go jumping upon them as the others do, and like them are very good meat.
עמוד 78 - One of the holes, which was big enough to have sunk us if we had had eight pumps instead of four, and been able to keep them incessantly going, was in a great measure plugged up by a fragment of the rock, which, after having made the
עמוד 30 - to carry burthens, and I believe that one of our shipboys of ten years old would carry as much as one of them. So we were forced to carry our water ourselves, and they very fairly put the clothes off again, and laid them down,
עמוד 78 - made their way through four planks and even into the timbers, three more planks were much damaged, and the appearance of these breaches was very extraordinary ; there was not a splinter to be seen, but all was as smooth as if the whole had been cut away by an instrument