A Cruise in the Pacific: From the Log of a Naval Officer, Volume 1Fenton Aylmer Hurst and Blackett, 1860 |
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... himself , " it rubbed against you . " At one o'clock , the bank of thunder cloud began to move with a heaving , billowy motion , a few smoky - looking detachments rising and 22 PREPARATIONS FOR A STORM . scudding about like skirmishers.
... himself , " it rubbed against you . " At one o'clock , the bank of thunder cloud began to move with a heaving , billowy motion , a few smoky - looking detachments rising and 22 PREPARATIONS FOR A STORM . scudding about like skirmishers.
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... . At twelve o'clock at night the noise began to lull , and then came to us the worst of it , in the shape of a regular gale , or rather , I should say , irregular , as the gusts came short and 28 CROSSING THE LINE . sharp , as if from.
... . At twelve o'clock at night the noise began to lull , and then came to us the worst of it , in the shape of a regular gale , or rather , I should say , irregular , as the gusts came short and 28 CROSSING THE LINE . sharp , as if from.
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... began to appear , towers of cake , tart- lets and sweet sandwiches that set our teeth watering , while large water - pails stood full of claret and champagne , ready to be drawn at a moment's notice . Every man was busy , some at their ...
... began to appear , towers of cake , tart- lets and sweet sandwiches that set our teeth watering , while large water - pails stood full of claret and champagne , ready to be drawn at a moment's notice . Every man was busy , some at their ...
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... began to be conscious of considerable pain ; at last , much to my happiness , a man came in with a lantern , and then the cause of discomforture came out . It appeared that one of the middies , who slept next me , had dreamt that a man ...
... began to be conscious of considerable pain ; at last , much to my happiness , a man came in with a lantern , and then the cause of discomforture came out . It appeared that one of the middies , who slept next me , had dreamt that a man ...
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... began to gather . The weather was now growing oppressively hot , so hot , indeed , that our usual exercise of dancing and single - stick was rather exhausting . I took to having a snatch sleep on deck , wrapped in a big coat , but I ...
... began to gather . The weather was now growing oppressively hot , so hot , indeed , that our usual exercise of dancing and single - stick was rather exhausting . I took to having a snatch sleep on deck , wrapped in a big coat , but I ...
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Page 53 - The groves of Eden, vanish'd now so long, Live in description, and look green in song: These, were my breast inspired with equal flame, Like them in beauty, should be like in fame.
Page 18 - With sloping masts and dipping prow, As who pursued with yell and blow Still treads the shadow of his foe, And forward bends his head, The ship drove fast, loud roared the blast, And southward aye we fled.
Page 72 - Soon were lost in a maze of sluggish and devious waters, Which, like a network of steel, extended in every direction. Over their heads the towering and tenebrous boughs of the cypress Met in a dusky arch, and trailing mosses in midair Waved like banners that hang on the walls of ancient cathedrals.
Page 86 - ... a sable tuft, consisting of nine feathers edged also with blue. This bird seems to suppose that its beauty can be increased by trimming the tail, which undergoes the same operation as our hair in a barber's shop, only with this difference, that it uses its own beak, which is serrated, in lieu of a pair of scissors ; as soon as his tail is full grown, he begins about an inch from the extremity of the two largest feathers in it, and cuts away the web on both sides of the shaft, making a gap about...
Page 86 - This bird seems to suppose that its beauty can be increased by trimming the tail, which undergoes the same operation as our hair in a barber's shop, only with this difference, that it uses its own beak, which is serrated, in lieu of a pair of scissors : as soon as his tail is full grown, he begins about an inch from the extremity of the two longest feathers in it, and cuts away the -web on both sides of the shaft, making a gap about an inch long : both male and female Adonise their tails in this...
Page 222 - ... a cell, or polypidom, or polypary, into the hollow of which the animal can retire. The solid thus formed is called a coral, which represents exactly the animal itself. " These stony cells are sometimes single and cupped ; sometimes ramifying like a tree, and sometimes grouped like a cauliflower, or imitating the human brain. The calcareous cells which they build remain fixed to the rock in which they began their labours, after the animals themselves are dead.
Page 221 - ... that secrete, from the lower portion of their body, a large quantity of carbonate of lime ; which, when diffused around the body, and deposited between the folds of its abdominal coats, constitute a cell, or polypidom, or polypary, into the hollow of which the animal can retire.
Page 222 - These industrious laborers act as scavengers of the lowest class ; perpetually employed in cleansing the waters of the sea from impurities which escape even the smallest Crustacea ; in the same manner as the insect tribes, in their various stages, are destined to find their food by devouring impurities caused by dead animals and vegetable matter in the land.
Page 223 - Were we to unite into one mass the immense coral reefs, three hundred miles long, and the numberless coral islands, some of which are forty and fifty miles in diameter ; and if we add to this all the coralline limestone, and the other formations, whether calcareous or silicious, that are the works of insect...
Page 88 - This was the pyrophorus noctilueus, so well known to every traveller in the Antilles and in Tropical America. It is of an obscure, blackish brown, and the body is everywhere covered with a short, lightbrown pubescence. When it walks or is at rest, the principal light it emits issues from the two yellow tubercles; but, when the wings are expanded in the act of flight, another luminous spot is disclosed in the hinder part of the thorax. These...