My Journal in Malayan Waters, Or, The Blockade of QuedahRoutledge, Warne, and Routledge, 1861 - 360 Seiten |
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... once into the rivers with their light vessels , they stockaded the mouths ; and knowing that at that season our men - of - war could not approach close enough to injure them , and that open ships ' boats could not live off the coast ...
... once into the rivers with their light vessels , they stockaded the mouths ; and knowing that at that season our men - of - war could not approach close enough to injure them , and that open ships ' boats could not live off the coast ...
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... once , and after every preparation had been made for a sudden action with war - prahus , I sat down with Jamboo , and my serang , Jadee , to glean in- formation and pick up Malay . To my inquiry , through the interpreter , as to the ...
... once , and after every preparation had been made for a sudden action with war - prahus , I sat down with Jamboo , and my serang , Jadee , to glean in- formation and pick up Malay . To my inquiry , through the interpreter , as to the ...
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... once , girded up his loins , gave his head - dress a still more ferocious cock , and then baring his arms , with a long Illanoon creese in one hand and a short " badi , " or stabbing knife in the other , he enacted a savage pantomime of ...
... once , girded up his loins , gave his head - dress a still more ferocious cock , and then baring his arms , with a long Illanoon creese in one hand and a short " badi , " or stabbing knife in the other , he enacted a savage pantomime of ...
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... fruit , as they were poisonous . Having bathed , and washed their clothes over once or twice , by way of a jollification , and walked up and down the beaches until tired , one of WITH GROUND - NUTS . 53 the old sailors expressed.
... fruit , as they were poisonous . Having bathed , and washed their clothes over once or twice , by way of a jollification , and walked up and down the beaches until tired , one of WITH GROUND - NUTS . 53 the old sailors expressed.
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... once I plunged into the water , taking down many a bee which adhered tenaciously to my body and facc . Keeping down as long as possible , I rose in the hope of being clear from the little brutes ; but , alas ! they were not so easily ...
... once I plunged into the water , taking down many a bee which adhered tenaciously to my body and facc . Keeping down as long as possible , I rose in the hope of being clear from the little brutes ; but , alas ! they were not so easily ...
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afterwards alligators amongst anchor appeared armed assured Bagoose Baju-Mira Barclay birds'-nests blockade boats Bountings brig called canoe Captain Warren capture chase chieftainess Chinese close cloth cocoa-nut coxswain creatures creese crew cutter Datoo Mahomet Alee deck Emerald English escape evidently fancy fcap fight fire forest fugitives gave gun-boat guns Haggi hands head Hyacinth Inchi Laa islands Jadee Jadee's Jamboo jungle junk Kangah knew Lancavas looked Mahomet Alee Malacca Malayan Malayia Malays midshipman miles monkeys musquitoes native nests nicodar night oars paddles Parlis Pat Conroy Penang pinnace pirates poor prahus province Pulo Quedah Quetam Rajah returned rice river round sailors sails sampan scene seamen seen serang Setouè ship shoot shouted Siamese Siamese army Singapore slave snake soon stockade Straits of Malacca strong Sumatra Tamelan tide told Tom West Tonkoo Mahomet Touhan town trees Type-etam Untoo vessel whilst wild wind
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 295 - All in a hot and copper sky, The bloody sun, at noon, Eight up above the mast did stand, No bigger than the moon. Day after day, day after day, We stuck, nor breath nor motion ; As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean.
Seite 279 - WHEN the breeze of a joyful dawn blew free In the silken sail of infancy, The tide of time flow'd back with me, The forward-flowing tide of time ; And many a sheeny summer-morn, Adown the Tigris I was borne, By Bagdat's shrines of fretted gold, High-walled gardens green and old ; True Mussulman was I and sworn, For it was in the golden prime Of good Haroun Alraschid.
Seite 51 - ... October, 1815. It will be remembered that her husband embarked for India the year before. Thus a critic of the time spake with more wisdom than he was aware of, when he wrote the following sentence as to her Rosalind. "Of her figure it would be unjust at present to speak. She appears to be far advanced in that state in which ladies wish to be who love their lords.
Seite i - SWEET MEMORY, wafted by thy gentle gale, Oft up the stream of Time I turn my sail, To view the fairy-haunts of long-lost hours, Blest with far greener shades, far fresher flowers.
Seite 322 - From life's thronged path, unnoticed to expire. As the light leaf, whose fall to ruin bears Some trembling insect's little world of cares, Descends in silence — while around waves on The mighty forest, reckless what is gone...
Seite 259 - ... seen climbing the mangrove branches, and dashing: from thence into the water with all the life and energy of children of a colder clime, at once affording us proof that even they have their joys.