 | Sherard Osborn - 1861 - 396 Seiten
...commanders of the other two ships returning on board their vessels, we gave them some guns (that is, fireS), which they returned again. But it is strangely observable,...had sloped towards her setting, the flood tide was clone, and my gun-boat had just canted to the ebb, when the look-out man and Jadee pointed towards... | |
 | Christopher Hawkins - 1864 - 1420 Seiten
...in all the three Ships we had our Complement of Men, which made them all to conjecture that it wan the Spirit of some Man that had been drowned in that Latitude by accident." Hacke't Collection of Original Voyages. Lon: 1699, pp. 10-41. " Then haling away SW we came abreast... | |
 | Sherard Osborn - 1865 - 576 Seiten
...assure us of the worthy sailor's exactness. " We had," he says, " this day great feasting on board us, and the commanders of the other two ships returning...sleep. The moon had sloped towards her setting, the flood-tide was done, and my gunboat had just canted to the ebb, when the lookout-man and Jadee pointed... | |
 | William Clark Russell - 1893 - 352 Seiten
...we found that in all the three ships we had our complement of men, which made them all to conjecture that it was the spirit of some man that had been drowned in that latitude by accident." Thus they resolved their perplexity, braced up their yards, and pursued their course in a composed... | |
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But it is strangely observable, that whilst they were loading their guns, they heard a voice in the sea, crying out, ' Come, help ! come, help ! a man overboard ! come, help ! ' This made them forthwith bring their ship to the wind, thinking to take the... 