round by the Cape of Good Hope to the Pillars of Hercules, may be said to have been drawn and coloured with drops of blood. Twice did Captain Owen change his whole crew and officers ; those accomplished surveyors, Captain Boteler and Skyring, fell a sacrifice... Memoirs of Hydrography: 1750-1830 - Page 621830Full view - About this book
| Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain) - Geography - 1838 - 666 pages
...This gigantic survey, embracing the east and west coasts of Africa, from the Isthmus of Suez- [Suweis] round by the Cape of Good Hope to the Pillars of Hercules,...crew and officers ; those accomplished surveyors, Captains Boteler and Skyring, fell a sacrifice during its progress, and now, in the hour of conclusion,... | |
| Llewellyn Styles Dawson - 1885 - 152 pages
...remarks, " This gigantic survey, embracing the east and west coasts of Africa, from the Isthmas of Suez round by the Cape of Good Hope to the Pillars of Hercules,...fell a sacrifice during its progress, and now, in the huur of conclusion, the crews of the Etna and Haven have all but shared the same fate." HYDROGRAPHY.... | |
| 1914 - 1120 pages
...„This gigantic survey, embracing the east and west coast of Africa, from the Isthmus of Suez (Suweis) round by the Cape of Good Hope to the Pillars of Hercules,...drawn and coloured with drops of blood. Twice did Captein OWEN change his whole crew and officers" (54). An Land sah es noch schlimmer aus. So starben... | |
| Military art and science - 1839 - 610 pages
...coast, as far as the Isthmus of Suez ! In the language of one who knows its history well, " This survey may be said to have been drawn and coloured with drops...those accomplished surveyors, Captain Boteler and Captain Skyring, also fell a sacrifice to this great work—Boteler being killed by the climate, Skyring... | |
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