Daniel De Foe's Voyage Round the World: By a Course Never Sailed Before. To which is Prefixed the Life of the Author, by William Shiells, Esq. In Three Volumes. ...F. Noble, 1787 |
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Stran 203 - load the canoe with gold; and if they found when they came back, we were gone, they would find their way back through the mountains, and go to the rich Spaniard, who, they did not doubt, would get them licence to go back to Europe with the galleons, and perhaps,
Stran 24 - and out of humour, if it was not accepted, and would think we did not want to be friendly with him. As we had not given this Chilian any notice of our coming, more than a quarter of an hour, we could not expect great matters of entertainment,
Stran 179 - thing they took care to land, was their ammunition, their gun-powder and arms; not forgetting the ammunition 'de bouche, as the French call it, I mean their victuals; and, with great joy, they got to their two comrades; then they fetched their proper materials for their tent, and
Stran 154 - for though they lay in a hard dry piece of ground, too high for the land-flood to reach them, yet had the rains continued in the mountains, they might have lain there till they had been obliged to eat one another, and
Stran 160 - the mere gain. However, at length, the gold failing, they began to think of their more immediate work, which was going forward; and the carpenters having made three more floats like flat-bottomed barges, which they brought to be able to carry their baggage and
Stran 152 - of them even below the tops, and they did believe it rained among the hills ; but in the plain where they lay, and all about them, it was fair, and the weather fine. But in the night, the carpenters and their
Stran 121 - and put off to it, and when he came to it, he found it was a man's hat; this made them conclude their fellows were not far off, and that they were coming by water. Upon this, they made to the
Stran 30 - view it gives a traveller no other idea than that of being at the very entrance into eternal horror. All this while there was no fire, that is to
Stran 123 - fired three guns to give me notice, which, however, we heard not, and yet we knew they fired too; for, it being in the night, our men, who were very attentive with their eyes, as well as ears,
Stran 21 - as will appear in its place. We were now obliged to quit our mules, who all took up their quarters at the top of the hill, while we, by footings made in the rocks, descended, as we might