Loss of the American Brig Commerce, Wrecked on the Western Coast of Africa, in the Month of August, 1815J. Murray, 1817 - 618 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 412 - Now there was no smith found throughout all the land of Israel, for the Philistines said, "Lest the Hebrews make them swords or spears." But all the Israelites went down to the Philistines, to sharpen every man his share and his coulter and his axe and his mattock.
الصفحة 47 - The wind, as if by divine command, at this very moment ceased to blow. We hauled the boat out; the dreadful surges that were nearly bursting upon us, suddenly subsided, making a path for our boat about twenty yards wide, through which we rowed her out as smoothly as if she had been on a river in a calm, whilst on each side of us, and not more than ten yards distant, the surf continued to break twenty feet high, and with unabated fury. We had to row nearly a mile in this manner : all were fully convinced...
الصفحة 23 - ... six or eight inches from his head; his face resembled that of an ourangoutang more than a human being; his eyes were red and fiery; his mouth, which stretched nearly from ear to...
الصفحة 15 - Palma, having a fair wind ; but it being very thick and foggy weather, though vPfe got two observations at noon, neither could be much depended upon. On account of the fog, we saw no land, and found, by good meridian altitudes on the twenty-eighth, that we were in the latitude of 27. 30. N. having differed our latitude by the force of current. one hundred and twenty miles ; thus passing the Canaries without seeing any of them. I concluded we must have passed through the intended passage without discovering...
الصفحة 64 - ... sensation. When I recovered, it was some time before I could recollect where I was: my intolerable thirst however at length convinced me, and I was enabled to administer the same wretched and disgusting relief to which I had so frequently before been compelled to resort. Despair now seized on me, and I resolved to cast myself into the sea as soon as I could reach it, and put an end to my life and miseries together.
الصفحة 365 - Tombuctoo, waiting for the caravan : but it had perished on the desert ; neither did the yearly caravan from Tunis and Tripoli arrive, for it had also been destroyed. The city of Tombuctoo is very rich, as well as very large ; it has four gates to it ; all of them are opened in the day time, but very strongly guarded and shut at night. The negro women are very fat and handsome, and wear large round gold rings in their noses...
الصفحة 377 - ... are obliged to work the earth round about the city. The inhabitants catch a great many fish: they have boats made of great trees, cut off and hollowed out, that will hold ten, fifteen, or twenty negroes, and the brother of the king told one of my Moslemin companions who could understand him, (for I could not,) that he was going to set out in a few days with sixty boats, and to carry five hundred slaves down the river, first to the southward, and then to the westward, where they should come to...
الصفحة 29 - My children would have no father's, and perhaps no mother's care, to direct them in the paths of virtue, to instruct their ripening years, or to watch over them, and administer the balm of comfort in time of sickness; no generous friend to relieve their distresses, and save them from indigence, degradation, and ruin. These reflections harrowed up my soul, nor could I cease to shudder at these imaginary evils, added to my real ones, until I was forced mentally to exclaim, "Thy ways, great Father of...
الصفحة 241 - Our souls were overwhelmed with joy, and yetwe trembled with apprehension lest it might not be true : alas ! perhaps it was only a delusive dream, or some cruel trick to turn our miseries into mockery. At this moment however the Moor handed me a letter : I broke it open ; but my emotions were such, that it was impossible for me to read its contents, and I handed it to Mr.
الصفحة 311 - Jews — neither party could retire, nor could any one, except the foremost, get off of his mule : the Moors soon became outrageous, and threatened to throw the Jews down headlong — the Jews, though they had always been treated like slaves, and forced to submit to every insult and indignity, yet finding themselves in this perilous situation, without the possibility of retiring, and...