 ... that aboundance of fish, lying so thicke with their heads above the water, as for want of nets (our barge driuing amongst them) we attempted to catch them with a frying pan ; but we found it a bad instrument to catch fish with...  The Unnatural History of the Sea - Seite 46von Callum Roberts - 2007 - 456 SeitenEingeschränkte Leseprobe - Über dieses Buch
 | John Smith - 1819 - 278 Seiten
...their heads aboue the water, as for want of nets (our barge driuing amongst them) we attempted to catch them with a frying pan: but we found it a bad instrument...catch fish with: neither better fish, more plenty, nor more variety for sinal fish, had any of vs euer scene in any place so swimming in the water, but... | |
 | Lambert Lilly, Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1832 - 206 Seiten
...catch enough for a meal, no doubt, and cook them on the spot. But, as Smith says in his journal, " they found it a bad instrument to catch fish with. Neither better fish, more plenty, nor more variety for smal fish, had any of vs euer seene in any place, so swimming in the water —... | |
 | John Leeds Bozman - 1837 - 330 Seiten
...their heads above the water, as for want of nets (our barge driuing amongst them) we attempted to catch them with a frying pan ; but we found it a bad instrument...catch fish with ; neither better fish, more plenty, nor more variety for small fish, had any of vs euer scene in any place so swimming in the water, but... | |
 | John Leeds Bozman - 1837 - 338 Seiten
...above the water, as for want of nets (our barge driuing amongst them) we attempted to catch them with " frying pan ; but we found it a bad instrument to catch fish with ; neither better fish, more plenty, nor more variety for small fish, had any of vs euer scene in any place so swimming in the water, but... | |
 | John Leeds Bozman - 1837 - 332 Seiten
...water, as for want of nets (our barge driuing amongst them) we attempted to catch them with a flying pan ; but we found it a bad instrument to catch fish with ; neither better fish, more plenty, nor more variety for small fish, had any of vs euer scene in any place so swimming in the water, but... | |
 | Lambert Lilly, Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1839 - 202 Seiten
...catch enough for a meal, no doubt, and cook them on the spot. But, as Smith says in his journal, " they found it a bad instrument to catch fish with. Neither better fish, more plenty, nor more variety for smal fish, had any of vs euer seene in any place, so swimming in the water —... | |
 | Henry Howard Brownell - 1853 - 734 Seiten
...heads aboue the water, as for want of nets, (our barge driuing amongst them) we attempted to catch them with a frying pan: but we found it a bad instrument to catch fish with." At the mouth of the Rappahanoc, they had better luck, but with no small damage and peril to the gallant... | |
 | Henry Howard Brownell - 1855 - 738 Seiten
...heads aboue the water, as for want of nets, (our barge driuing amongst them) we attempted to catch them with a frying pan : but we found it a bad instrument to catch fish with." At the mouth of the Rappahanoc, they had better luck, but with no small damage and peril to the gallant... | |
 | Ascott Robert Hope Moncrieff - 1877 - 368 Seiten
...fish, so thick and so close to the surface in some places that " for want of nets we attempted to catch them with a frying pan, but we found it a bad instrument to catch fish with." On one occasion the boat being left CATCHING A TARTAR. 107 aground by the ebbing tide among shoal water,... | |
 | John Thomas Scharf - 1879 - 594 Seiten
...heads above the water, as for want of nets (our barge drilling amongst them) we attempted to catch them with a frying pan ; but we found it a bad instrument...catch fish with ; neither better fish, more plenty, nor more variety for small fish, had any of vs euer scene in any place so swimming in the water, but... | |
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