Celebrated travels and travellers, tr. from [Histoire des grands voyages et des grands voyageurs].1880 |
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Celebrated Travels and Travellers, Tr. from [Histoire Des Grands Voyages Et ... Jules Verne Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 2015 |
Celebrated Travels and Travellers, Tr. from [Histoire Des Grands Voyages Et ... Jules Verne Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 2015 |
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
Admiralty anchorage appeared archipelago armed astronomical Billardière boats Boudeuse Bougainville Byron Caledonia Cape Cape Horn Captain Cook Carteret cast anchor chief coast cocoa-nuts command Cook's crew D'Entrecastreux danger days later discovered discovery early engraving Easter Island Endeavour English expedition explored Fac-simile of early fire fish France French friendly frigate Furneaux gave guns harbour hundred impossible Indians inhabitants Kerguelen king La Perouse land Langle latitude leagues leaving Lieutenant longitude Mauritius mountains named natives naturalists navigators observations obtained officers Pacific Ocean Paris meridian passed perceived Perouse pigs pirogues Port provisions reached received reconnoitred rocks Roggewein sailors says the narrative scarcely scurvy seen sent set sail ship shore sight sloop soon southern spite stay steered Straits of Magellan Surville Swallow Tahitan Tahiti Tonga took trees Van Diemen's Land vessels visited voyage Wallis whilst wind wood Zealand
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Seite 353 - There is one larger than the rest still standing, but there are two still larger than this, fallen. They are all of one piece of granite, and on the top of that which is standing, there is a patera exceedingly well carved in the Greek taste.
Seite 333 - ... I saw with infinite pleasure the great object of my mission; the long sought for, majestic Niger, glittering to the morning sun, as broad as the Thames at Westminster, and flowing slowly to the eastward. I hastened to the brink, and, having drank of the water, lifted up my fervent thanks in prayer, to the Great Ruler of all things, for having thus far crowned my endeavours with success.
Seite 335 - Moors, and they are said to be more severe and intolerant in their principles than any other of the Moorish tribes in this part of Africa.
Seite 333 - The circumstance of the Niger's flowing towards the east, and its collateral points, did not, however, excite my surprise ; for although I had left Europe in great hesitation on this subject, and rather believed that it ran in the contrary direction, I had made such frequent inquiries during my progress, concerning this river, and received from Negroes, of different nations, such clear and decisive assurances that its general course was towards the rising sun...
Seite 388 - Their peritoneum is extremely loaded with fat, and a layer of fat reaches from the abdomen to the anus, forming a kind of cushion between the legs of the bird. This quantity of fat in frugivorous animals, not exposed to the light, and exerting very little muscular motion, reminds us of what has been...
Seite 334 - ... in water, has somewhat the appearance of a Spanish olive. The kernel is enveloped in a sweet pulp, under a thin green rind ; and the butter produced from it, besides the advantage, of its keeping the whole year without salt, is whiter, firmer, and, to my palate, of a richer flavour than the best butter I ever tasted made from cow's milk.
Seite 342 - ... unevenness of the ground, they have not been able to keep pace with it, it has flown back to meet them, and with redoubled cries, denoting still greater impatience, has upbraided them for being so tardy.
Seite 336 - I thought could be applied to nobody but myself; and as the pit had very much the appearance of a grave, I thought it prudent to mount my horse, and was about to decamp, when the slave, who had before gone into the village, to my surprise, returned with the corpse of a boy about nine or ten years of age, quite naked.
Seite 328 - They rallied me with a good deal of gaiety on different subjects; particularly upon the whiteness of my skin, and the prominency of my nose. They insisted that both were artificial. The first, they said, was produced when I was an infant, by dipping me in milk; and they insisted that my nose had been pinched every day, till it had acquired its present unsightly and unnatural conformation.
Seite 393 - Around the World in Eighty Days .... A Floating City .... The Blockade Runners Dr. Ox's Experiment . . Master Zacharius . . . A Drama in the Air . . A Winter amid the Ice . The Survivors of the "Chancellor".