Historical Account of the Most Celebrated Voyages, Travels, and Discoveries,: From the Time of Columbus to the Present Period, Volume 20

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E. Newbery, 1797
 

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Page 261 - On the 19th, the sky was obscured by immense fleeces of clouds, surcharged with inflammable matter; and, in the evening, the rain fell in torrents, the firmament darkened apace, sudden night came on, and the horrors of extreme darkness were rendered still more horrible by the peals of thunder which rent the air, and the frequent flashes of lightning, which served only to...
Page 262 - I applied myself to the captain, and endeavoured to bring him back (if possible) to his recollection, and to a sense of what he owed to his duty as a commander, and to his dignity as a man : I exhorted him to encourage the sailors by his example...
Page 265 - This gleam of happiness continued net long : a tremendous sea rolling after us, broke over our stern, tore every thing betore it, stove in the steerage, carried away the rudder, shivered the wheel to pieces, and tore up the very ringbolts of the deck : conveyed the men who stood at the wheel forward, and swept them overboard. I was standing at the time near the wheel, and fortunately had hold of the taffarel, which, enabled me to resist in part the weight of the wave. I was, however, swept off my...
Page 270 - Death feemed inevitable ; and all that occurred to me now to do, was to accelerate it, and get out of its pangs as...
Page 235 - At fome caravanferas he treated me with affected negligence, at others he made me eat with him and drink wine, of which, in fome places, he himfelf drank copioufly, and ut others as fcrupuloufly refrained from.
Page 262 - Captain, raving, ftamping, and tearing his hair in handfuls from his head— here, fome of the crew were caft upon their knees, clapping their hands, and praying, with all the extravagance of horror painted in their faces— there, others were flogging their images with all their might, calling upon them to allay the ftorm.
Page 204 - European countries, is certainly the third: city for fplendour, magnificence, and importance, in the vaft extent .of the Ottoman Empire — Constantinople and Grand Cairo, only excelling it in thofe points, and no other bearing any fort of competition with k.
Page 271 - I made a convulfive fpring, and ran up a little diftance on the fhore ; but was fo weak and worn down by fatigue, and fo unable to clear my ftomach of the fait water with which it was loaded, that I fuddenly grew deadly fick, and apprehended that I had only exchanged one death for another ; and in a minute or two fainted away.
Page 324 - THE dead hufband, who, from his appearance, feemed to be about fixty years of age, was lying clofe by, flretched out on a bier, made of bamboo canes. Four bramins walked in proceffion three times round the dead body, firft. in a direction contrary to the fun, and afterwards other three times in a direction with the fun, all the while muttering •incantations ; and at each round or circuit they made, they...
Page 10 - Hand exaftly clofe to each other in even ranks. They all imitate the Imam in the front, who is no fooner on his feet than he brings his two thumbs to touch the lower part of his ears, at which the Mezzin, or Clerk above., cries out " God is great," at the hearing of which they all touch their ears, faying the fame to themfelves.

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