A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, المجلد 11Robert Kerr W. Blackwood, 1814 |
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الصفحة 518 - that its first reception was such as to take off four large impressions within a twelvemonth—that it has been repeatedly printed since in a variety of forms—and that it has been translated into most of the languages of Europe. The
الصفحة 296 - tremblings, and a disposition to be seized with the. most dreadful terrors on the slightest accident. Indeed it was most remarkable, in all our reiterated experience of this, malady, that whatever discouraged our people, or at any time damped their hopes, never failed to add new vigour to
الصفحة 517 - months; after having, by its event, strongly evinced this important truth, that though prudence, intrepidity, and perseverance united, are not exempted from the blows of adverse fortune; yet in a long series of transactions, they usually rise superior to its power, and in the end rarely fail of proving successful.
الصفحة 301 - ship in the middle watch, we had a melancholy instance of the almost incredible debility of our people; for the lieutenant could muster no more than two quarter-masters and six foremast men capable of working; so that, without the assistance of the officers, servants, and boys, it might have been impossible for us to have reached the island after we
الصفحة 300 - circumstances, we stood to the westward, with a crazy ship, a great scarcity of fresh water, and a crew so universally diseased, that there were not above ten foremast men in a watch capable of doing duty, and even some of these lame and unable to go aloft.
الصفحة 492 - Centurion was not much short of 400,000/. independent of the ships and merchandise, which she either burnt or destroyed, and which, by the most reasonable estimation, could not amount to so little as 600,000/. more; so that the whole loss of the enemy, by our squadron, did doubtless exceed a million sterling. To which, if
الصفحة 489 - broad-sides with intervals between them, he kept up a constant fire without intermission, whence he doubted not to procure very signal advantages ; for it is common with the Spaniards to fall down upon the decks when they see a broadside preparing, and to continue in that posture
الصفحة 488 - see the other. The commodore instantly stood towards her, and at half an hour after seven they were near enough to see her from the Centurion's deck ; at which time the galleon fired a gun, and took in her top-gallant sails, which was supposed to be a signal to her consort,
الصفحة 295 - and constant occurrence, and which therefore deserve a more particular enumeration. These common appearances are large discoloured spots dispersed over the whole surface of the body, swelled legs, putrid gums, and, above all, an extraordinary lassitude of the whole body, especially after any exercise, however inconsiderable ; and this lassitude at last degenerates into a proneness to swoon, and even
الصفحة 517 - on his arrival, that there was a French fleet of considerable force cruising in the chops of the channel, which, by the account of their position, he found the Centurion had run through, and had been all the time concealed by a fog. Thus was this expedition finished, when it had lasted three years and