 | 1812 - 532 pages
...shelter from the weather. Being constantly obliged to bale the boat to keep her from filling, perhaps should not have been reckoned an evil, as it gave...At noon a water-spout was very near on board of us: since yesterday, we had made 100 miles. The night was dark and dismal, and nothing but winds and waves... | |
 | William Bligh - 1820 - 188 pages
...night was truly horrible. At dawn of day, 1 found every person complaining, and some of them requesting extraallowance, which I positively refused. Our situation...distressing, I generally served a tea-spoonful or .two to 45 each person, and it was always glad tidings ta hear of my intentions. At noon, a water-spout was... | |
 | Sir John Barrow - 1831 - 392 pages
...in the night, without the least shelter from the weather. The little rum we had was of the greatest service : when our nights were particularly distressing,...tea-spoonful or two to each person, and it was always joyful tidings when they heard of my intentions. The night was again a dark and dismal one, the sea... | |
 | Sir John Barrow - 1832 - 320 pages
...in the night, without the least shelter from the weather. The little rum we had was of the greatest service : when our nights were particularly distressing,...tea-spoonful or two to each person, and it was always joyful tidings when they heard of my intentions. The night was again a dark and dismal one, the sea... | |
 | Robert Macnish - 1835 - 256 pages
...in the night, without the least shelter from the weather. The little rum we had was of the greatest service; when our nights were particularly distressing,...tea-spoonful or two to each person, and it was always joyful tidings when they heard of my intention." — Family Library, vol. xxv. Miitiny of the Bounty.... | |
 | William Bligh - 1838 - 86 pages
...the weather. Being constantly obliged to bale, to keep the boat from filling, was, perhaps, not to be reckoned an evil, as it gave us exercise. The little...tea-spoonful or two to each person : and it was always joyful tidings when they heard of my intentions. At noon a water-spout was very near on board of us.... | |
 | 1843 - 812 pages
...sufferings of himself and companions, in consequence of the mutiny of the crew of the Bounty, he observes, "The little rum we had was of great service: when...served a teaspoonful or two to each person : and it was joyful tidings when they heard of my intentions." It is said, that the inhabitants of colder climates... | |
 | William Chambers, Robert Chambers - 1846 - 934 pages
...the weather. Being constantly obliged to bale, to keep the boat from filling, was perhaps not to be reckoned an evil, as it gave us exercise. The little...were particularly distressing, I generally served a teaspoonfu! or two to each person ; and it was always joyful tidings when they heard of my intentions.... | |
 | George Combe - 1850 - 452 pages
...in the night, without the least shelter from the weather. The little rum we had was of the greatest service —when our nights were particularly distressing, I generally served a tea-spoonful or two to ea«h person, and it was always joyful tidings when they heard of my intention,' — Family Library... | |
 | William Benjamin Carpenter - 1851 - 304 pages
...in the night, without the least shelter from the weather. The little rum we had was of the greatest service : when our nights were particularly distressing,...teaspoonful or two to each person, and it was always joyful tidings when they heard of my intention." Now, however decidedly we may give the preference... | |
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The little rum we had was of great service. When our nights were particularly distressing, I generally served a tea-spoonful or two to each person ; and it was always joyful tidings when they heard of my intentions. 
