Narrative of the Voyage of H.M.S. Samarang, During the Years 1843-46: Employed Surveying the Islands of the Eastern Archipelago : Accompanied by a Brief Vocabulary of the Principal Languages, Nide 2Reeve, Benham, and Reeve, 1848 |
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anchorage anchored animal Apo Island appear Archipelago Balambangan Basilan Batan beautiful belonging Bisayan boats body Borneo Brooke brown Cagayan carapace Carinaria Chinese coast colour coral covered Crabs crawling crew Crustaceans dark deep Dutch Dyaks eggs elytra English eyes fathoms feet fish flowers foliage foot forest frequently genus green ground habits hăr head inhabitants insects island islets Japan Japanese Korean Labuan land larvæ leaves legs light living Lizard lobes Loo-Choo Malay Manila manner mantle Mauritius Meia-co-shimas miles Mindoro Mollusks Muda Nangasaki natives noticed numbers numerous observed obtained operculum peculiar Phlegethon Pirate plant port prahus probably procured reefs remarkable resembling river rocks sail Samarang Samboanga sandy Sarawak seen shell ship shoals shore side Simon's Town Singapore Sooloo Spanish species specimens Spiders spots stones Sultan surface Tagala Tampassook Telescopium trees tribes tropical vegetable vessel village wild wood yellow
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Sivu 232 - Fill'd with the face of heaven, which, from afar, Comes down upon the waters; all its hues, From the rich sunset to the rising star, Their magical variety diffuse: And now they change ; a paler shadow strews Its mantle o'er the mountains; parting day Dies like the dolphin, whom each pang imbues •*> With a new colour as it gasps away, The last still loveliest, — till — 'tis gone — and all is gray.
Sivu 309 - Or, as the snail, whose tender horns being hit, Shrinks backward in his shelly cave with pain, And there all smother'd up in shade doth sit, Long after fearing to creep forth again...
Sivu 42 - So long as the sun shall warm the earth, let no Christian be so bold as to come to Japan ; and let all know, that the King of Spain himself, or the Christians' God, or the great God of all, if he violate this command, shall pay for it with his head.
Sivu 434 - In one place the caves are only to be approached by a perpendicular descent of many hundred feet by ladders of bamboo and rattan, over a sea rolling violently against the rocks. When the mouth of the cavern is attained, the perilous office of taking the nests must often be performed by torch-light...
Sivu 303 - The fig-tree, not that kind for fruit renown'd, But such as, at this day, to Indians known, In Malabar or Decan spreads her arms, Branching so broad and long, that in the ground The bended twigs take root, and daughters grow About the mother tree, a pillar'd shade, High overarch'd, and echoing walks between...
Sivu 303 - Deccan spreads her arms Branching so broad and long, that in the ground Shadow. m-ftPARADISE LOST. 223 The bended twigs take root, and daughters grow About the mother tree, a pillared shade High overarched, and echoing walks between...
Sivu 18 - Djogoun, and persons holding civil offices under the government, are bound when they have committed any crime to rip themselves up, but not till they have received an order from the court to that effect ; for, if they were to anticipate this order, their heirs would run the risk of being deprived of their places and property. For this reason, all the officers of government are provided, in addition to their...
Sivu 224 - Then looke, who list thy gazefull eyes to feed With sight of that is faire, looke on the frame Of this wyde universe, and therein reed The endlesse kinds of creatures which by name Thou canst not count, much less their natures aime; All which are made with wondrous wise respect, And all with admirable beautie deckt. First, th' Earth, on adamantine pillers founded Amid the Sea, engirt with brasen bands; Then th...
Sivu 388 - Their port was more than human, as they stood : I took it for a faery vision Of some gay creatures of the element, That in the colours of the rainbow live, And play i
Sivu 528 - IX. 0 how canst thou renounce the boundless store Of charms which Nature to her votary yields! The warbling woodland, the resounding shore, The pomp of groves, and garniture of fields; All that the genial ray of morning gilds, And all that echoes to the song of even, All that the mountain's sheltering bosom shields, And all the dread magnificence of heaven...