Narrative of the Voyage of H.M.S. Rattlesnake: Commanded by the Late Captain Owen Stanley During the Years 1846-1850, Including Discoveries and Surveys in New Guinea, the Louisiade Archipelago, Etc., to which is Added the Account of Mr. E. B. Kennedy's Expedition for the Exploration of the Cape York Peninsula, כרך 2Libraries Board of South Australia, 1852 |
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Narrative of the Voyage of H. M. S. Rattlesnake, Commanded by the Late ... <span dir=ltr>John MacGillivray</span> אין תצוגה מקדימה זמינה - 1999 |
מונחים וביטויים נפוצים
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עמוד 233 - They went away then a little way, and came back again, throwing spears all around more than they did before: very large spears. I pulled out the spear at once from Mr. Kennedy's back, and cut out the jag with Mr. Kennedy's knife: then Mr. Kennedy got his gun and snapped, but the gun would not go off. The blacks sneaked all along by the trees, and speared Mr. Kennedy again in the right leg above the knee a little, and I got speared over the eye, and the blacks were now throwing their spears all ways,...
עמוד 233 - ... ran back as hard as he could run and fetched up plenty more — like a flock of sheep almost. I told Mr. Kennedy to put the saddles on the two horses...
עמוד 108 - The only danger was in going between them and the sea; for if they took fright at anything, they would come down in such numbers, that, if you could not get out of their way, you would be run over. Sometimes, when we came suddenly upon them, or waked them out of their sleep (for they are a sluggish sleepy animal), they would raise up their heads, snort and snarl, and look as fierce as if they meant to devour us ; but as we advanced upon them, they always ran away; so that they are downright bullies.
עמוד 236 - I went on a little way, and saw the ship and boat ; I met close up here two black gins and a good many piccaninnies ; one said to me "powad, powad ;" then I asked her for eggs, she gave me turtles...
עמוד 233 - Now we went into a little bit of a scrub, and I told Mr. Kennedy to look behind always. Sometimes he would do so, and sometimes he would not look behind to look out for the blacks. Then a good many black fellows came behind in the scrub, and threw plenty of spears, and hit Mr. Kennedy in the back first. Mr. Kennedy said to me, ' Oh, Jacky, Jacky, shoot 'em ! shoot 'em !' Then I pulled out my gun, and hit one fellow over the face with buck-shot.
עמוד 21 - Remora), having previously been secured by a line passed round the tail, is thrown into the water in certain places known to be suitable for the purpose ; the fish while swimming about makes fast by its sucker to any turtle of this small kind which it may chance to encounter, and both are hauled in together...
עמוד 236 - I came to a very large river, and a large lagoon ; plenty of alligators in the lagoon, about tenj miles from Port Albany. I now got into the ridges by sundown, and went up a tree and saw Albany Island ; then next morning at four o'clock, I went on as hard as I could go, all the way down, over fine clear ground, fine iron bark timber, and plenty of good grass. I went on round the point...
עמוד 139 - ... shells. After I had carefully examined all these things I left them where I found them. In the centre of the camp were four large ovens, for cooking their food. These ovens were constructed by digging a hole in the ground, about three feet in diameter, and two feet deep. The hole is then filled to within six inches of the top with smooth, hard, loose, stones, on which a fire is kindled, and kept burning till the stones are well heated. Their food, consisting principally of shell and other fish,...
עמוד 84 - The eye is fixed on the fore-finger of the right hand, and the other end is hitched round the dart, where it is nearly on an equipoise. They hold the dart between the thumb and remaining fingers, which serve only to give it direction, the velocity being communicated by the becket and fore-finger. The...
עמוד 228 - I went on a good way next day; a horse fell down a creek; the flour we took with us lasted three days; we had much trouble in getting the horse out of the creek; we went on, and came out, and camped on the ridges; we had no water.