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 | Edmund Burke - 1800 - 624 pages
...ftrong, we could not attempt to fleer for it. Our wifhes were now for the wind to fliift to the weftward. This was the fifteenth day we had been in the boat...day's bread and one bottle of water remaining of a fecond fupply of rain. Our fufferings were now as great as human rtrength could l>t-ar, but we were... | |
 | John Wesley - 1796 - 666 pages
...attempt to fteer for it. Our wifh.es were now for the wind 10 fhift to the Weftward. This was the i^th day we had been in the boat, and we had only one day's bread, and one bottle of water remaining of a fecond fupply of rain. Our fuffeiings were now as great as human ftrength could bear, but we were convinced... | |
 | William Fordyce Mavor - 1797 - 668 pages
...Fayall, and to the weftward fixty leagues ; but blowing ftrong, we could not attempt to fleer for it. This was the fifteenth day we had been in the boat,...and we had only one day's bread, and one bottle of wafer remain* ing of a fecond fupply of rain. Our furFeringS •were now as great as human ftrength... | |
 | 1800 - 620 pages
...we could not attempt to fteer for it. Our willies were now for the wind to iliift to the weftward. This was the fifteenth day we had been in the boat...day's bread and one bottle of water remaining of a fécond fupply of rain. Our fufferings were now as great as human ftrength could bear, but we were... | |
 | 1800 - 624 pages
...we could not attempt to fleer for it. Our wiilies were now for the wind to fliift to the weihvard. This was the fifteenth day we had been in the boat...one day's bread and one bottle of water remaining oí a fécond fupply of rain. Our fufierings were now as great as human ftrength could bear, but we... | |
 | William Fordyce Mavor - 1796 - 340 pages
...Fayall, and to the weftward fixty leagues ; but blowing ftrong, we could not attempt to fteer for it. This was the fifteenth, day we had been in the boat,...day's bread, and one bottle of water remaining of a fecond fupply of rain. Our fufferings were now as great as human ftrength could bear; but we were convinced... | |
 | William Fordyce Mavor - 1802 - 374 pages
...Fayall, and to the westward sixty leagues ; but blowing strong, we could not attempt to steer for it. This was the fifteenth day we had been in the boat,...than great bodily strength ; for, on this day, Thomas Matthews, quarter-master, the stoutest man in the boat, perished from hunger and cold : on the day... | |
 | William Fordyce Mavor - 1797 - 584 pages
...Fayall, and to the weftward fixty leagues; but blowing ftrong, we could not attempt to fleer for it. This was the fifteenth -day we had been in the boat, and we had onlyone day's bread, and one bottle of water remaining of a fecond fupply of rain. Our fufferings were... | |
 | David N. Woodard, William Vaughan - 1804 - 310 pages
...sheets, which by accident had been put there," On the ^fifteenth day that they had been in the boat, they had only one day's bread, and one bottle of water remaining of a second supply of rain. Captain Inglefield states: "Our sufferings were now as great as human strength could bear ; but we... | |
 | Robert Beatson - 1804 - 820 pages
...now for the wind to ibift to the wclhvard. This was the ijth day they had been in the boat, und they had only one day's bread, and one bottle of water remaining of a fécond fupply of rain. Their fufferings were now as great as human ilrength could bear, but they were... | |
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