 | 1812 - 532 pages
...describe the pleasure which the blessing of the sight of this land diffused among us. It appeared scarce credible to ourselves, that in an open boat, and so...the coast of Timor in forty-one days after leaving Tofqa ; having, in that time, run by our log the distance of 36 1» miles ; and that, notwithstanding... | |
 | 1925 - 948 pages
...describe the pleasure which the blessing of the sight of this land diffused among us. It appeared scarce credible to ourselves that in an open boat, and so...the coast of Timor in forty-one days after leaving Tofoa, having in that time run by our log a distance of 3618 miles ; and that, notwithstanding our... | |
 | R. P. Forster - 1818 - 592 pages
...diffused among us. It appeared scarce credible, that in an open boat, aad so poorly provided, that we should have been able to reach the coast of Timor in forty-one days after leaving Tofba, having in that time run, by our log, a distance of 3618 miles, and that, notwithstanding our... | |
 | William Bligh - 1820 - 188 pages
...discovered Timor, and by day-light were within two leagues of the shore. It is not possible for one to describe the pleasure which the blessing of the...the coast of Timor, in forty-one days after leaving Tofoa; having in that time, run by o.ur log the distance of 3618 miles; and that, notwithstanding our... | |
 | William Bligh - 1824 - 184 pages
...discovered Timor, and by day-light • were within two leagues of the shore. It is not possible for one to describe the pleasure which the blessing of the...should have been able to reach the coast of Timor, in forty- one days after leaving Tofoa ; having, in that time, run by our log the distance of 3618 miles;... | |
 | Sir John Barrow - 1831 - 400 pages
...only of two leagues from the shore. ' It is not possible for me,' says this experienced navigator, ' to describe the pleasure which the blessing of the...the coast of Timor in forty-one days after leaving Tofoa, having in that time run, by our log, a distance of three thousand six hundred and eighteen nautical... | |
 | Sir John Barrow - 1832 - 320 pages
...only of. two leagues from the shore. " It is not possible for me," says this experienced navigator, " to describe the pleasure which the blessing of the...the coast of Timor in fortyone days after leaving Tofoa, having in that time run by our log a distance of three thousand six hundred and eighteen nautical... | |
 | William Bligh - 1838 - 86 pages
...describe the pleasure which the blessing of the sight of this land diffused among us. It appeared scarce credible to ourselves, that in an open boat, and so...the coast of Timor in forty-one days after leaving Tofoa, having in that time run, by our log, a distance of 31) l H miles ; and that, notwithstanding... | |
 | Chronicles of the sea - 1838 - 488 pages
...themselves — that in an open boat, so poorly provided, and under circumstances every way so calamitous, should have been able to reach the coast of Timor in forty-one days after leaving Tofoa, having in that time run, by their log, a distance of three thousand, six hundred and eighteen... | |
 | William Chambers, Robert Chambers - 1846 - 934 pages
...by south to northeast by north ; our distance from the shore two leagues. It is not possible for me to describe the pleasure which the blessing of the...the coast of Timor in forty-one days after leaving Tofoa, having in that time run, by our log, a distance of 3618 miles, and that, notwithstanding oar... | |
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It is not possible for me to describe the pleasure which the blessing of the sight of this land diffused among us. It appeared scarcely credible to ourselves that, in an open boat, and so poorly provided, we should have been able to reach the coast of... 
