A voyage towards the south pole, performed in the years 1822-24Longman, 1827 - 324 páginas |
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Página 189 - That any character — from the best to the worst, from the most ignorant to the most enlightened — may be given to any community, even to the world at large, by applying certain means, which are to a great extent at the command and under the control, or easily made so, of those who possess the government of nations.
Página 137 - This class of males is not, however, the most numerous, but being physically the most powerful, they keep in their possession all the females, to the exclusion of the younger branches ; hence, at the time of parturition, the males attending...
Página 143 - ... returned to bed. Presently he heard the noise again, rose a second time, but still saw nothing. Conceiving, however, the possibility of a boat being upset, and that some of the crew might be clinging to some detached rocks, he walked along the beach a few steps, and...
Página 41 - The excessive cold of the southern hemisphere has been variously accounted for, every philosopher adopting that theory which best suited his own hydrographical system. Saint Pierre supposes it to proceed from a cupola of ice surrounding the South Pole, and stretching far northward. We have now better data to go upon; for though great exertions were used in the years 1773 and 1774 to discover the terra australis incognita without success, yet we find there is a range of land lying as far north as...
Página 54 - It is so indented with bays, that, in several places, where they are on opposite sides, they are so deep as to make the distance from the one side to the other very small. Near the West end, in particular, there is a neck of this kind, about half a mile broad, over which boats are frequently...
Página 140 - ... The large male Seals take up their places on shore, as has been before described, which completes the intercourse all classes have with the shore during the whole year. The young are at first black; in a few weeks they become grey ; and soon after obtain their coat of hair and fur. " When these South Shetland Seals were first visited, they had no apprehension of danger from meeting men ; in fact, they would lie still while their neighbours were killed and skinned ; but, latterly, they had acquired...
Página 143 - Upon searching round, he saw an object lying on a rock a dozen yards from the shore, at which he was somewhat frightened. The face and shoulders appeared of human form, and of a reddish colour ; over the shoulders hung long green hair ; the tail resembled that of the seal, but the extremities of the arms he could not see distinctly. The creature continued to make a musical noise while he gazed about two minutes, and on perceiving him it disappeared in an instant. Immediately when the man saw his...
Página 208 - However, it appeared, by the precautions and fears of the Spaniards, that they were fully convinced of the practicability of the scheme he was sent to execute, and extremely alarmed with the apprehension of its consequences. It is said, that his Majesty King Charles the Second was so far prepossessed with the...
Página 54 - Georgia. Hence, it may be presumed that, during the time these two islands have been resorted to, for the purpose of trade, more than 2,000 tons of shipping, and from 200 to 300 seamen, have been employed annually in this traffic.
Página 89 - Barnard, an American, whose vessel was run away with in the year 1814, by the crew of an English ship, which, on her passage from Port Jackson, had been wrecked on the south side of this island; Capt.