 | 1812 - 532 pages
...Straits, and it was thence necessary to preserve such a situation as to make a southerly wind a fair one. At dawn of Wednesday the 20th several of my people...awoke with severe cramps and pains in our bones. All the afternoon we were covered with rain and salt water, so that we could scarcely see. The rain fell... | |
 | R. P. Forster - 1818 - 592 pages
...of my people seemed half dead : our appearances were horrible; and I could look no way, but I caught the eye of some one in distress. Extreme hunger was...little sleep we got was in the midst of water, and we constantly awoke with severe cramps and pains in our bones. This morning I served about two tea-spoonfuls... | |
 | William Bligh - 1820 - 188 pages
...to preserve such a situation as to make a southerly wind a fair one. At dawn of Wednesday the 20tb, several of my people seemed half dead. Our appearance,...distress. Extreme hunger was now too evident, but n» one suffered from thirst, nor had we much incli-i nation to drink, that desire, perhaps, being... | |
 | Sir John Barrow - 1831 - 400 pages
...dead ; that their appearances were horrible ; ' and I could look,' says he, ' no way, but I caught the eye of some one in distress. Extreme hunger was...little sleep we got was in the midst of water, and we constantly awoke with severe cramps and pains in our bones. At noon the sun broke out and revived every... | |
 | Sir John Barrow - 1832 - 320 pages
...-dead ; that their appearances were horrible ; " and I could look," says he, " no way, but I caught the eye of some one in distress. Extreme hunger was...little sleep we got was in the midst of water, and we constantly awoke with severe cramps and pains in our bones. At noon the sun broke out and revived every... | |
 | William Bligh - 1838 - 86 pages
...'my people seemed half dead : our appearances were horrible ; and I could look no way, but I caught the eye of some one in distress. Extreme hunger was...little sleep we got was in the midst of water, and we constantly awoke with severe cramps and pains in our bones. This morning I served about two tea-spoomuls... | |
 | Sir John Barrow - 1845 - 310 pages
...half-dead ; that their appearances were horrible; "and I could look," says he, " no way, but I caught the eye of some one in distress. Extreme hunger was now too evident, hut no one suffered from thirst, nor had we much inclination to drink, that desire perhaps being satisfied... | |
 | William Chambers, Robert Chambers - 1846 - 934 pages
...some of my people seemed half dead. Our appearance was horrible, and I could look no way but I caught the eye of some one in distress. - Extreme hunger...little sleep we got was in the midst of water, and we constantly awoke with severe cramps and pains in our bones. Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, we were... | |
 | Thomas Boyles Murray - 1854 - 376 pages
...half dead; that their appearances were horrible ; " and I could look," says he, "no way, but I caught the eye of some one in distress. Extreme hunger was...little sleep we got was in the midst of water, and we constantly awoke with severe cramps and pains in our bones. At noon the .sun broke out and revived... | |
 | Davis Wasgatt Clark - 1856 - 420 pages
...some of my people seemed half dead. Our appearance was horrible, and I could look no way but I caught the eye of some one in distress. Extreme hunger was...little sleep we got was in the midst of water, and we constantly awoke with severe cramps and pains in our bones. Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, we were... | |
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At dawn of day, some of my people seemed half dead : our appearances were horrible; and I could look no way, but I caught the eye of some one in distress. Extreme hunger was now too evident, but no one suffered from thirst, nor had we much inclination... 
