The Letter of Marque, and Tales of the Sea and Land, Etc. [With Plates.] |
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The Letter of Marque and Tales of the Sea and Land Charles Rathbone Low Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 2016 |
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
aloft anchor Arab arms arrived barque blood blow boats boatswain Bombay brave breeze British buglahs Bushire called captain capture carried carronades Cathar Catharpine cayman command commenced coolies course craft crew death deck dhows enemy English escape eyes face Fanu fearful fell Fernley fight fire French frigate gallant gave Gotzloff guns Gwalior hand head heard heart hour India Indian navy island Jowassamee Kishm knew lash length Letter of Marque lieutenant looked man-of-war mast Megara morning murder Muscat native naval navy never night officer passed Persian Gulf pirates port prison quarters Red Hawk rigging round round shot sail sailors scene seamen seemed seized ship ship's shipmates shore shot side sight sloop-of-war soon spar starboard stern stood story thought took tribe troops turned vessels village voice watch white wolf wind wolf wounded wretched yards young
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 295 - Roll on, thou deep and dark blue ocean, roll! Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain ; Man marks the earth with ruin — his control Stops with the shore ; upon the watery plain The wrecks are all thy deed...
Seite 101 - The broken sheds look'd sad and strange: Unlifted was the clinking latch; Weeded and worn the ancient thatch Upon the lonely moated grange. She only said, ' My life is dreary, He cometh not...
Seite 27 - For those that fly may fight again, Which he can never do that's slain. Hence timely running's no mean part Of conduct, in the martial art...
Seite 97 - He whistled shrill, And he was answered from the hill: Wild, as the scream of the curlew, From crag to crag the signal flew. Instant, through copse and heath, arose Bonnets, and spears, and bended bows . On right, on left, above, below, Sprung up at once the lurking foe. From shingles grey their lances start, The bracken-bush sends forth' the dart ; The rushes, and the willow-wand, Are bristling into axe and brand ; And every tuft of broom gives life To plaided warrior armed for strife.
Seite 272 - ... his shoulders in absolute despair. The sun was just peeping over the high forests on the eastern hills, as if coming to look on, and bid us act with becoming fortitude. I placed all the people at the end of the rope, and ordered them to pull till the cayman appeared on the surface of the water; and then, should he plunge, to slacken the rope and let him go again into the deep. I now took the mast of the canoe in my hand (the sail being tied round the end of the mast) and...
Seite 272 - This was an interesting moment. I kept my position firmly, with my eye fixed steadfast on him. By the time the cayman was within two yards of me, I saw he was in a state of fear and perturbation: I instantly dropped the mast, sprang up, and jumped on his back, turning half round as I vaulted, so that I gained my seat with my face in a right position. I immediately seized his fore-legs, and by main force twisted them on his back; thus they served me for a bridle.
Seite 271 - ... the place where we were. The mast was eight feet long, and not much thicker than my wrist. I took it out of the canoe, and wrapped the sail round the end of it. Now it appeared clear to me that if I went down upon one knee, and held the mast in the same position as the soldier holds his bayonet when rushing to the charge, I could force it down the cayman's throat, should he come open-mouthed at me. When this was told to the Indians, they brightened up, and said they would help me to pull him...
Seite 271 - They wanted to kill him, and I wanted to take him alive. I now walked up and down the sand, revolving a dozen projects in my head. The canoe was at a considerable distance, and I ordered the people to bring it round to the place where we were. The mast was eight feet long, and not much thicker than my wrist. I took it out of the canoe, and wrapped the sail round the end of it. Now it appeared clear to me that if I went down upon one knee, and held the mast in the same position as the soldier holds...
Seite 272 - The people pulled the cayman to the surface; he plunged furiously as soon as he arrived in these upper regions, and immediately went below again on their slackening the rope. I saw enough not to fall in love at first sight. I now told them we would run all risks, and have him on land immediately. They pulled again, and out he came, — "monstrum horrendum, informe.
Seite 180 - Clyde, on her last voyage, she was one day going through the water at the rate of about three knots an hour, with a light wind, when a shark was observed following the vessel.