 I therefore made another effort to bring about a change, but with no other effect than to be threatened with having my brains blown out. ' The boatswain and seamen who were to go in the boat were allowed to collect twine, canvas, lines, sails, cordage,...  The Island: Or Christian and His Comrades - Page 68by George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1823 - 89 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Mary Russell Mitford - 1811 - 368 pages
...lines, sails, cordage, an eight-and-twenty gallon cask of water, and Mr. Samuel got 1 ,:'>(.)//«. of bread, with a small quantity of rum and wine, also a quadrant and compass ; but he was forbidden, on pain of death, to touch either map, ephemeris, book of astronomical observations, sextant,... | |
 | Amasa Delano - 1817 - 622 pages
...lines, sails, cordage, an eight and twenty gallon cask of water, and Mr. Samuel got a hundred and fifty pounds of bread, with a small quantity of rum and wine, also a quadrant and compass ; but he was forbidden on pain of death to touch either map, ephemeris, book of astronomical observations, sextant,... | |
 | R. P. Forster - 1818 - 592 pages
...sails, cordage, an eight and twenty gallon cask of water, and the carpenter to take his tool chest. Mr. Samuel got 150 pounds of bread, with a small quantity of rum and wine. He also got a quadrant and compass into the boat ; but was forbidden, on pain of death, to touch either... | |
 | William Bligh - 1820 - 188 pages
...in the boat, were allowed to collect twine, tanvas, line, sails, cordage, a 28-gallon cask of pter ; and Mr. SAMUEL got 150 pounds of bread, with a small quantity of rum and wine; MM a quadrant and compass ; but he was prohibited, on pain of death, to touch any map or astronomical... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1827 - 888 pages
...gallon cask of water; and Mr Samuel got i5o pounds of bread, with a small quantity of rum aud wine; also quadrant and compass; but he was prohibited on pain of death, to touch any map or astronomical book, aud any instrument, or any of my surveys aud drawings. The mutineers having thus forced those of the... | |
 | Hugh Murray - 1827 - 710 pages
...lines, sails, cordage, and an eight-and-twenty gallon cask of water. Mr Samuel, the clerk, procured 150 pounds of bread, with a small quantity of rum and wine. That active person likewise got off the captain's journals, with some material ship-papers, also a... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1828 - 780 pages
...canvas, line«, sails, cordage, an eight-.iud-twcnly galluii cask of water; and Mr Samuel got i Jo pounds of bread, with a small quantity of rum and wine; also a quadrant and rnmpass; hut he was prohibited, on pain of death, to touch any map or astronomical book, and any instrument,... | |
 | Sir John Barrow - 1831 - 400 pages
...sails, cordage, an eight-and-twenty gallon cask of water ; and Mr. Samuel got one hundred and fifty pounds of bread, with a small quantity of rum and wine, also a quadrant and compass; but he was forbidden, on pain of death, to touch 64 THE MUTINY. LChap. III. either map, ephemeris, book of astronomical... | |
 | Sir John Barrow - 1832 - 320 pages
...sails, cordage, an eight-and-twenty gallon cask of water ; and Mr. Samuel got one hundred and fifty pounds of bread, with a small quantity of rum and wine, also a quadrant and compass ; but he was forbidden, on pain of death, to touch either map, ephemeris, book of astronomical observations, sextant,... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Thomas Moore - 1833 - 382 pages
...sails, cordage, an eight-andtwenty-gallon cask of water ; and Mr. Samuel got one hundred and fifty pounds of bread, with a small quantity of rum and wine ; also a quadrant and compass." — BLIGH.] (2) [" The mutineers having thus forced those of the seamen whom they wished to get rid... | |
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