The Journal of Llewellin Penrose, a Seaman, Volumen3J. Murray, 1815 |
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Página 49 - Shew me more friendship than this, and we then shall own it is whiter than ours. Now we hear the voice in the wind saying, Oh ! the blackness is coming with the bird which devours the dead. Must we not all go to sleep ? Does not the bird of death pick the flesh from the bones ? Our sister here, shall she return without the covering of affection, because her love is gone to sleep? Could she keep him awake any longer ? or, tell us, did she put him to sleep ? You will say, No, no, no. Awaken again his...
Página 63 - For this purpose he stript himself, and taking a small stone, put it into his mouth, and in a short time drew it from under his arm, and so conveyed it from one part of his body to another, to the great amazement of the company. He then began to tumble, walk on his hands, and the like. As he was doing this, Eva ran and caught fast hold of him, dreading lest he should fall. This made Owagamy laugh, and say that she was afraid he would break in two pieces, he supposed, and there was no other...
Página 189 - ... could well supply, and must have been the most ungrateful of mortals, if we . did not thank God for his blessings, and learn to be content with our lot. I could not help frequently looking back to the forlorn situation in which I was first cast upon this shore ; without fire, food, or raiment, to comfort, to support, or to cover me; exposed to the scorching rays of the sun by day, and to the heavy dews by night. Yet had God spread a table for me in this wilderness ; he had comforted, fed...
Página 26 - Bell, was born in West Lothian, and had travelled the country as a pedlar. He died when his son was but ten years of age. Soon after his father's death, he was placed with a carpenter in the shire of Fife, his mother being from those parts. When he was about fifteen he ran away, and got on board a vessel that 'traded to the east country. After that he took several trips from Aberdeen to London. During the war he went several cruizes, was taken and carried into St. Maloes, where he lay in prison a...
Página 27 - Maloes, where he lay in prison a long time, and amused himself during his imprisonment, by learning to play on the German flute of a fellow prisoner, whose name was James Alexander, a coun'tryman of his. When an exchange took place, he came again to London, and entered on board a ship bound for New York. On his return, having a great inclination to music, he practised the French horn and trumpet, and by a foolish prank of wrestling, received a hurt on his back, which. rendered him unfit to follow...
Página 147 - You have the game all to yourselves," said I. " Well, then," continued Bell, " it is yon great cotton tree which was split by the lightning; there is a broken limb which fell athwart another, and as the wind dies or freshens, it rubs more or less with a groaning noise, but when near it, you find the sound is unlike that of any human creature in distress." If we had but courage to investigate the greater part of our fears, we should find they had no better grounds to rest on. I now came to a determination...
Página 76 - I was quite at a loss to account fur it. " Let us endeavour to mount the hill,'" said he; which we did, and were obliged to bawl as loud as possible, for the wind was yet so high, that we could scarcely keep our legs, or hear each other's voices. When we arrived at the top, we could plainly perceive a most dreadful fire at sea, at about three leagues distant. This could be nothing but a ship on fire. She continued to burn for more than two hours after we first discovered her; how long before it was...
Página 49 - ... pect our actions to be whiter than yours ? " What are the things I know, I hear, I see? " Has not the wind of voices gone through " the trees, and by the side of the shore, that " my brothers and sisters have given their " flesh and their blood to mix with yours ? " Shew me more friendship than this, and " we then shall own it is whiter than ours. " Now we hear the voice in the wind saying, " Oh ! the blackness is coming with the
Página 37 - I made him some and took it to him; he was then on my bed in the cave; he raised himself up and began to eat of it heartily, praising it much- He finished near a pint of it. I then asked him how he found himself; he made me no reply, but, fixing his eyes against the other side as if he saw something, in an instant he •threw the spoon against it violently, then falling back, made an odd kind of hollow • sound, and expired. This scene was almost too much for me. I turned out of the cave, and reclined...
Página 28 - Andrew, and travelled over a great part of England, Wales, and Ireland, in their company. Being fond of variety, his next engagement was with a quack doctor; he travelled two years with him in the same capacity, and took every opportunity of shewing off his tricks for the benefit of his master and himself. He said he was an excellent mimic, and could with ease take off the French, Dutch, Irish, Welch, &c.