Cape CodTicknor and Fields, 1866 - Broj stranica: 252 |
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... thought of Captain Kidd , and that the feathers were those which sea - fowl had cast there ; and perhaps there might be some tradition about it in the neighbor- hood . I asked.a sailor if that was the St. John . He said it was . I asked ...
... thought of Captain Kidd , and that the feathers were those which sea - fowl had cast there ; and perhaps there might be some tradition about it in the neighbor- hood . I asked.a sailor if that was the St. John . He said it was . I asked ...
Stranica 12
... thought that the inhabitants should bear a ripple for device on their shields , a wave passing over them , with the datura , which is said to pro- duce mental alienation of long duration without affecting the bodily health , * springing ...
... thought that the inhabitants should bear a ripple for device on their shields , a wave passing over them , with the datura , which is said to pro- duce mental alienation of long duration without affecting the bodily health , * springing ...
Stranica 14
... thought that , in case of shipwreck , there would be more danger of being chilled to death than simply drowned . One immersion was enough to make you forget the dog- days utterly . Though you were sweltering before , it will take you ...
... thought that , in case of shipwreck , there would be more danger of being chilled to death than simply drowned . One immersion was enough to make you forget the dog- days utterly . Though you were sweltering before , it will take you ...
Stranica 21
... thought that writing letters , and sorting them against our arrival , must be the principal employment of the inhabitants of the Cape , this rainy day . The Post - office appeared a singularly do- mestic institution here . Ever and anon ...
... thought that writing letters , and sorting them against our arrival , must be the principal employment of the inhabitants of the Cape , this rainy day . The Post - office appeared a singularly do- mestic institution here . Ever and anon ...
Stranica 26
... thought , if the Prov- incetown people should shut their doors against them ! Whose yard would they go to next ? Yet we concluded that they had chosen wisely to come here , where other music than that of the surf must be rare . Thus the ...
... thought , if the Prov- incetown people should shut their doors against them ! Whose yard would they go to next ? Yet we concluded that they had chosen wisely to come here , where other music than that of the surf must be rare . Thus the ...
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afterward appeared ashore Atlantic bank Barnstable Barnstable County Bartholomew Gosnold Bayberry beach beach-grass blackfish Blue and gold boat Boston breakers CALIFORNIA called Cape Cod Captain cast Champlain clam Clark's Island coast Cohasset desert distance Eastham edge Edition England feet high fish Greenland gulls half a mile harbor heard hills hollows horizon hundred Illustrated inhabitants Island John land light-house looked mackerel morning Mourt's Relation Nauset Nauset Lights never night ocean Pamet River perchance perhaps Pilgrims plants Plymouth Poems Poetical pond Port Royal Portrait Provincetown Provincetown Harbor Race Point River roar rocks rods round sail sailors salt sand sand-hills says schooner seen ship shipwrecked shore sometimes storm story summer surface tell thought tide told town trees Truro vessel voyage walked waves weather Wellfleet whale wind wood wreck wrecker
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Stranica 173 - Strewn with crabs, horse-shoes, and razor-clams, and whatever the sea casts up, — a vast morgue, where famished dogs may range in packs, and crows come daily to glean the pittance which the tide leaves them. The carcasses of men and beasts together lie stately up upon its shelf, rotting and bleaching in the sun and waves, and each tide turns them in their beds, and tucks fresh sand under them. There is naked Nature, — inhumanly sincere, wasting no thought on man, nibbling at the cliffy shore...
Stranica 167 - Merchants, never to be wrought out of that Trade, and fit for any other. I will not deny but others may gaine as well as they that will use it, though not so certainly, nor so much in...
Stranica 57 - Latitude 41° 33'. pointing out the Spots, on which the Trustees of the Humane Society have erected Huts, and other places where shipwrecked Seamen may look for Shelter.
Stranica 9 - We afterwards came to the life-boat in its harbor, waiting for another emergency,— and in the afternoon we saw the funeral procession at a distance, at the head of which walked the captain with the other survivors. On the whole, it was not so impressive a scene as I might have expected. If I had found one body cast upon the beach in some lonely place, it would have affected me more. I sympathized rather with the winds and waves, as if to toss and mangle these poor human bodies was the order of...