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... TRIBE . In as to enable the whale to deposit a layer of fat beneath the skin from eight to fourteen inches in thickness , which fat renders the animal buoyant , and preserves its warmth , and hence is not inaptly termed the blanket by ...
... TRIBE . In as to enable the whale to deposit a layer of fat beneath the skin from eight to fourteen inches in thickness , which fat renders the animal buoyant , and preserves its warmth , and hence is not inaptly termed the blanket by ...
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... tribe is appointed harpooner , a number of small canoes , with one man in each , being in attendance . Selecting his prey , the harpooner drives his weapon into the animal ; an inflated seal skin attached to the other end of the harpoon ...
... tribe is appointed harpooner , a number of small canoes , with one man in each , being in attendance . Selecting his prey , the harpooner drives his weapon into the animal ; an inflated seal skin attached to the other end of the harpoon ...
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... tribe , is horizontal . I will finish this story of whales and whaling by narrating an adventure which nearly cost me my life . Having cruised on my last voyage for some time without my usual success , I bore up for Torres Straits ...
... tribe , is horizontal . I will finish this story of whales and whaling by narrating an adventure which nearly cost me my life . Having cruised on my last voyage for some time without my usual success , I bore up for Torres Straits ...
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... tribe ; it is always d THE SUGAR CANE . A , single flower enlarged : B , flower open ; a , stigmas ; b , stamens ; c , scales ; d , pala . propagated by cuttings , an internode or knot being included in each piece planted in the soil ...
... tribe ; it is always d THE SUGAR CANE . A , single flower enlarged : B , flower open ; a , stigmas ; b , stamens ; c , scales ; d , pala . propagated by cuttings , an internode or knot being included in each piece planted in the soil ...
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... tribes to wage war upon one another for the purpose of making prisoners to sell into slavery . Packing the wretched beings as bales of goods , not even regarding them as air - breathing animals , the horrors of the ' middle passage ...
... tribes to wage war upon one another for the purpose of making prisoners to sell into slavery . Packing the wretched beings as bales of goods , not even regarding them as air - breathing animals , the horrors of the ' middle passage ...
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Сторінка 227 - For when the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these having not the law, are a law unto themselves ; which shew the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts the meanwhile accusing or else excusing one another,) in the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ, according to.
Сторінка 36 - YE Mariners of England ! That guard our native seas ; Whose flag has braved a thousand years The battle and the breeze ! Your glorious standard launch again To match another foe ! And sweep through the deep, While the stormy winds do blow ; While the battle rages loud and long, And the stormy winds do blow.
Сторінка 42 - And this is the fashion which thou shalt make it of; the length of the ark shall be three hundred cubits, the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits.
Сторінка 142 - Gladness grew in me upon the discovery of so delightful a scene. I wished for the wings of an eagle, that I might fly away to those happy seats; but the genius told me there was no passage to them, except through the gates of death that I saw opening every moment upon the bridge. The islands...
Сторінка 142 - The clouds still rested on one half of it, insomuch that I could discover nothing in it: but the other appeared to me a vast ocean planted with innumerable islands, that were covered with fruits and flowers, and interwoven with a thousand little shining seas that ran among them.
Сторінка 36 - Her home is on the deep. With thunders from her native oak She quells the floods below — As they roar on the shore, When the stormy winds do blow ; When the battle rages loud and long, And the stormy winds do blow.
Сторінка 178 - Within a long recess there lies a bay : An island shades it from the rolling sea, And forms a port secure for ships to ride : Broke by the jutting land on either side, In double streams the briny waters glide, Betwixt two rows of rocks : a sylvan scene Appears above, and groves for ever green : A grot is form'd beneath, with mossy seats, To rest the Nereids, and exclude the heats.
Сторінка 7 - When by the dreadful tempest borne High on the broken wave, They know Thou art not slow to hear, Nor impotent to save.
Сторінка 43 - And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and the Lord caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all that night, and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided. And the children of Israel went into the midst of the sea upon the dry ground; and the waters were a wall unto them on their right hand and on their left.
Сторінка 50 - And there shall be no more curse: but the throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in it; and his servants shall serve him: And they shall see his face ; and his name shall be in their foreheads.