 | Robert Greenhow - America - 1840 - 250 pages
...not mountainous, but low plain land, and we drew back again without landing, till we came within 38 degrees towards the line; in which height it pleased...good wind to enter the same. In this bay we anchored on the 17th of June." After which, the writer goes on to describe the occurrences on shore. Nothing... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1844 - 614 pages
...low plain land, and we drew back again without landing till we came within 38° towards the line ; m which height it pleased God to send us into a fair and good bay, with a good wind to enter the вате. In this bay we anchored on the 17th June." In the narrative of the World Encompassed it is... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson Farnham - Northwest, Pacific - 1844 - 94 pages
...finding it not mountainous, but low, plain land, till we came within eight-and-thirty degrees toward the line, in which height it pleased God to send us into a fair and good bay, %vith a good wind to enter the same." The following extracts are from the " World Encompassed :" "... | |
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - English literature - 1845 - 696 pages
...within thirtie-eight degree towardes the line. In which height it pleased God to send us into a faire and good bay, with a good wind to enter the same. In this bay we ankered the seventeenth of June," &c. There is certainly, at first sight, an apparent discrepancy of... | |
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - English literature - 1845 - 682 pages
...plain land, and we drew back again without landing til we came within thirtie-eight degree towardes the line. In which height it pleased God to send us into a faire and good bay, with a good wind to enter the same. In this bay we ankered the seventeenth of June,"... | |
 | Travers Twiss - Great Britain - 1846 - 304 pages
...seek the land, and did so, finding it not mountainous, but low plaine land, till we came within 3S degrees towards the line. In which height it pleased God to send us into a faire and good baye, with a good winde to enter the same." It will be seen from this account, that... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1851 - 554 pages
...did so, finding it not mountainous, but low plaine land, till we came within thirty degrees toward the line. In which height it pleased God to send us into a faire and good baye, with a good winde to enter the same. In this baye wee anchored." A glance at the... | |
 | Henry Schroder - Yorkshire (England) - 1851 - 460 pages
..." We drew back again," says the historian of the voyage, " without landing, till we came within 88 degrees towards the line. In which height it pleased God to send us in a faire and good bay, with a good wind to enter the same." This country was no doubt the country... | |
 | Sir Francis Drake, William Sandya Wright Vaux - Voyages around the world - 1854 - 424 pages
...plaine land (and we drew backe againe without landing, til we came within thirtie-eight degrees towardes the line. In which height, it pleased God to send us into a faire and good bay, with a good winde to enter the same. In this bay wee ankered the seuenteenth of... | |
 | Robert Conger Pell - Anecdotes - 1857 - 444 pages
...and did so, finding it not mountainous, but low plaine land, tin we came within thirty degrees toward the line. In which height it pleased God to send us into a i'uire and good baye, with a good winde to enter the ume. In this baye wee anchored." A glance at the... | |
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Pole, we found the air so cold, that our men being grievously pinched with the same, complained of the extremity thereof, and the further we went, the more the cold increased upon us. Whereupon we thought it best for that time to seek the land, and did... 
