Narrative of the Voyage of H.M.S. Samarang, During the Years 1843-46: Employed Surveying the Islands of the Eastern Archipelago : Accompanied by a Brief Vocabulary of the Principal Languages, Volume 2Reeve, Benham, and Reeve, 1848 |
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... body of the house is divided , consist of several rooms , separated by mere partitions , or rather by a kind of screens , which may be moved forward or backward at pleasure ; so that an apartment may be made larger or smaller as there ...
... body of the house is divided , consist of several rooms , separated by mere partitions , or rather by a kind of screens , which may be moved forward or backward at pleasure ; so that an apartment may be made larger or smaller as there ...
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... body would , it confines the air sufficiently to prevent any escape , until the arrow has run the length of the tube , and a sufficient impetus is thus acquired to project it with effect to the distance of 150 yards . The force is such ...
... body would , it confines the air sufficiently to prevent any escape , until the arrow has run the length of the tube , and a sufficient impetus is thus acquired to project it with effect to the distance of 150 yards . The force is such ...
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... body of the Cargados Garajos . Officers aloft , and the look - out men at the mast - heads were unable to trace any appear- ance of reefs , or discoloured water , nor were we able to obtain soundings with 150 fathoms , in the space ...
... body of the Cargados Garajos . Officers aloft , and the look - out men at the mast - heads were unable to trace any appear- ance of reefs , or discoloured water , nor were we able to obtain soundings with 150 fathoms , in the space ...
Page 233
... body , and fringe of purple tentacles . Specific distinctions have been taken from the form of the crest , as in V. pyramidalis , but I have noticed this part rounded , more or less pointed , and , in some cases , even lobed , in what I ...
... body , and fringe of purple tentacles . Specific distinctions have been taken from the form of the crest , as in V. pyramidalis , but I have noticed this part rounded , more or less pointed , and , in some cases , even lobed , in what I ...
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... body of this specimen was of a delicate transparent blue , and the crest , twisted slightly on itself , was lilac , blending been wafted thither , unable to strike its characteristic lateen sail . There also I have seen wrecked a fleet ...
... body of this specimen was of a delicate transparent blue , and the crest , twisted slightly on itself , was lilac , blending been wafted thither , unable to strike its characteristic lateen sail . There also I have seen wrecked a fleet ...
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Page 232 - Fill'd with the face of heaven, which, from afar, Comes down upon the waters; all its hues, From the rich sunset to the rising star, Their magical variety diffuse: And now they change ; a paler shadow strews Its mantle o'er the mountains; parting day Dies like the dolphin, whom each pang imbues •*> With a new colour as it gasps away, The last still loveliest, — till — 'tis gone — and all is gray.
Page 309 - Or, as the snail, whose tender horns being hit, Shrinks backward in his shelly cave with pain, And there all smother'd up in shade doth sit, Long after fearing to creep forth again...
Page 42 - So long as the sun shall warm the earth, let no Christian be so bold as to come to Japan ; and let all know, that the King of Spain himself, or the Christians' God, or the great God of all, if he violate this command, shall pay for it with his head.
Page 434 - In one place the caves are only to be approached by a perpendicular descent of many hundred feet by ladders of bamboo and rattan, over a sea rolling violently against the rocks. When the mouth of the cavern is attained, the perilous office of taking the nests must often be performed by torch-light...
Page 303 - The fig-tree, not that kind for fruit renown'd, But such as, at this day, to Indians known, In Malabar or Decan spreads her arms, Branching so broad and long, that in the ground The bended twigs take root, and daughters grow About the mother tree, a pillar'd shade, High overarch'd, and echoing walks between...
Page 303 - Deccan spreads her arms Branching so broad and long, that in the ground Shadow. m-ftPARADISE LOST. 223 The bended twigs take root, and daughters grow About the mother tree, a pillared shade High overarched, and echoing walks between...
Page 18 - Djogoun, and persons holding civil offices under the government, are bound when they have committed any crime to rip themselves up, but not till they have received an order from the court to that effect ; for, if they were to anticipate this order, their heirs would run the risk of being deprived of their places and property. For this reason, all the officers of government are provided, in addition to their...
Page 224 - Then looke, who list thy gazefull eyes to feed With sight of that is faire, looke on the frame Of this wyde universe, and therein reed The endlesse kinds of creatures which by name Thou canst not count, much less their natures aime; All which are made with wondrous wise respect, And all with admirable beautie deckt. First, th' Earth, on adamantine pillers founded Amid the Sea, engirt with brasen bands; Then th...
Page 388 - Their port was more than human, as they stood : I took it for a faery vision Of some gay creatures of the element, That in the colours of the rainbow live, And play i
Page 528 - IX. 0 how canst thou renounce the boundless store Of charms which Nature to her votary yields! The warbling woodland, the resounding shore, The pomp of groves, and garniture of fields; All that the genial ray of morning gilds, And all that echoes to the song of even, All that the mountain's sheltering bosom shields, And all the dread magnificence of heaven...