| Charles Darwin - 1846 - 396 Seiten
...Furies; and a little farther northward there are so many breakers that the sea is called the Milky Way. One sight of such a coast is enough to make a landsman dreamforaweek about shipwrecks, peril, and death; and with this sight we bade farewell forever to Tierra... | |
| Charles Darwin - 1871 - 546 Seiten
...Furies ; and a little farther northward there are so many breakers that the sea is called the Milky Way. One sight of such a coast is enough to make a landsman dream for a week about shipwrecks, peril, and death ; and with this sight we bade farewell for ever to Tierra del Fuego. The... | |
| Thomas Woodbine Hinchliff - 1876 - 474 Seiten
...west; and I can fully agree with Mr. Darwin, who, when taking leave of Tierra del Fuego, remarks that ' one sight of such a coast is enough to make a landsman dream for a week about shipwrecks and peril and death.' As we passed into the open ocean and saw the fierce sea with which... | |
| 1884 - 528 Seiten
...that promise, made by the Devil's Punch Bowl, of writing to his mother. CHAPTER IV. OFF THE " FURIES." A SHIP tempest-tossed, laboring amid the surges of...is there fear in their hearts, and pallor on their checks, as their eyes turn to that belt of white, frothy 1 66 THE • LAND OF KIKE. [DBCEUBEB, water... | |
| Charles Darwin - 1889 - 628 Seiten
...Furies ; and a little further northward there are so many breakers that the sea is called the Milky Way. One sight of such a coast is enough to make a landsman dream for a week about shipwrecks, peril, and death ; and with this sight we bade farewell for ever to Tierra del Fuego. The... | |
| Charles Darwin - 1896 - 542 Seiten
...; arid a little farther northward there are so many breakers that the sea is called the Milky Way. One sight of such a coast is enough to make a landsman dream for a week about shipwrecks, peril, and death ; and with this sight we bade farewell for ever to Tierra del Fuego. The... | |
| Charles Darwin - 1908 - 542 Seiten
...Furies; and a little farther northward there are so many breakers that the sea is called the Milky Way. One sight of such a coast is enough to make a landsman dream for a week about shipwrecks, peril, and death; and with this sight we bade farewell for ever to Tierra del Fuego. The... | |
| Charles Darwin - 1909 - 564 Seiten
...Furies; and a little farther northward there are so many breakers that the sea is called the Milky Way. One sight of such a coast is enough to make a landsman dream for a week about shipwrecks, peril, and death; and with this sight we bade farewell for ever to Tierra del Fuego. The... | |
| 1909 - 574 Seiten
...Furies; and a little farther northward there are so many breakers that the sea is called the Milky Way. One sight of such a coast is enough to make a landsman dream for a week about shipwrecks, peril, and death; and with this sight we bade farewell for ever to Tierra del Fuego. The... | |
| Robert Cushman Murphy - 1936 - 724 Seiten
...little further to the north, the Captain from the number of breakers called the sea the "Milky Way." The sight of such a coast is enough to make a landsman dream for a week about death, peril & shipwreck (Darwin, 1933, 230). Straight out to sea beyond the Long Reach are the rocks... | |
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