 | 1841 - 986 pages
...scuttle, and told us to come on deck and see the finest sight that we had ever seen. "Where away, cook?" asked the first man who was up. " On the larboard...covered with snow, and its centre of a deep indigo colour. This was an iceberg, and of the largest size, as one of our men said, who had been in the Northern... | |
 | United States - 1840 - 544 pages
...deck and see the finest sight we had ever seen. ' Where away, cook ?' asked the first man who \\;\-. up. ' On the larboard bow.' And there lay, floating...irregular mass, its top and points covered with snow, and iisccut.ro of a deep indigo color. This was an iceberg, and of the largest s;ze, as one of our men... | |
 | Gift books - 1843 - 346 pages
...scuttle, and told us to come on deck and see the finest sight that we had ever seen. " Where away, cook ?" asked the first man who was up. " On the larboard...covered with snow, and its centre of a deep indigo colour. This was an iceberg, and of the largest size, as one of our men said who had been in the Northern... | |
 | Voyages and travels - 1843 - 378 pages
...scuttle, and told us to come on deck and see the finest sight that we had ever seen. " Where away, cook ?" asked the first man who was up. " On the larboard...And there lay, floating in the ocean, several miles ofT, an immense irregular mass, its top and points covered with snow, and its centre of a deep indigo... | |
 | Tales - 1847 - 336 pages
...that appeared in the month of July, when the vessel was off Cape Horn : — " There lay floating on the ocean, several miles off, an immense irregular...covered with snow, and its centre of a deep indigo colour. This was an iceberg, and of the largest size, as one of our men said who had been in the northern... | |
 | United States - 1840 - 624 pages
...scuttle and told us to come on deck and see the finest sight we had ever seen. ' Where away, cook ?' asked the first man who was up. ' On the larboard...there lay, floating in the ocean, several miles off, sn immense, irregular mass, its top and poiuts covered with snow, and its centre of a deep indigo color.... | |
 | John Frost - Africa - 1854 - 574 pages
...scuttle, and told us to come on deck and see the finest sight that we had ever seen. " Where away, cook ?" asked the first man who was up. " On the larboard...covered with snow, and its centre of a deep indigo colour. This was an iceberg, and one of the largest size, as one of our men said, who had been in the... | |
 | Advanced reading book - Readers - 1860 - 458 pages
...scuttle and told us to come on deck and see the finest sight that we had ever seen. " Where away, cook ?" asked the first man who was up. " On the larboard...covered with snow, and its centre of a deep indigo colour. This was an iceberg, and of the largest size, as one of our men said, who had been in the Northern... | |
 | John Charles Curtis - Readers - 1869 - 150 pages
...and told us to come on deck and see the finest sight that we had ever seen. ' Where away, cook ? ' asked the first man who was up. ' On the larboard...covered with snow, and its centre of a deep indigo colour. This was an iceberg, one of the largest size, as one of our men said who had been in the Northern... | |
 | Lewis Baxter Monroe - American literature - 1871 - 342 pages
...we had ever seen. " Where away, cook ? " asked the first man who was up. " On the larboard bow." 2. And there lay, floating in the ocean, several miles...centre of a deep indigo color. This was an iceberg, and of the largest size, as one of our men said who had been in the Northern Ocean. 3. As fur as the eye... | |
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This was an iceberg, and of the largest size, as one of our men said who had been in the Northern Ocean. As far as the eye could reach, the sea in every direction was of a deep blue... 
