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Page 258 - M., wind NE tremendous squalls blowing with inconceivable fury. The sea rising in huge pyramids yet having no velocity, but rising and falling like a boiling cauldron. I have never seen the like before. I was in the height of the terrible hurricane of September 1834, in the West Indies, I have been in a...
Page 113 - Between each district of Manyema large belts of the primeval forest still stand. Into these the sun, though vertical, cannot penetrate, except by sending down at midday thin pencils of rays into the gloom. The rain water stands for months in stagnant pools made by the feet of elephants...
Page 258 - ... tremendous squalls blowing with inconceivable fury. The sea rising in huge pyramids yet having no velocity, but rising and falling like a boiling cauldron. I have never seen the like before. I was in the height of the terrible hurricane of September 1834, in the West Indies, I have been in a tyfoon in the China sea, in gales off Cape Horn, the Cape of Good Hope and New Holland, but never saw such a confused and strange sea. I have seen much higher seas, and I am sure wind heavier, but then the...
Page 258 - Captain B. SPBOULE, of the ship Magellan, thus describes it from actual observation in the China Sea, in August, 1850 : " I never saw anything to equal the sea. You could not say it was running from any point, but meeting from all quarters — impinging one against the other, and flying into the atmosphere in pyramids of foam, falling again on the spot where they rose.
Page 231 - Last night the most dreaded catastrophe that can happen a vessel at sea befell us : fire broke out forward. As near as I can learn, it was the carpenter's fault. We were going smoothly along with everything set, the night being fine and clear. The wheel had just been relieved at four bells in the first-watch, and Mr. Ryan and I were walking the poop, calculating how much longer we would probably be at sea, when one of the men came aft...
Page 205 - ... side and one on the bottom. But if the casks are pleasing to the eye they are most horribly offensive to the nose ; for, so vile an odor is diffused throughout the ship when one is opened even for a moment, that a bone-boiling establishment would have to take a back seat in the presence of a ship's...
Page 234 - I saw more than one brown fist tremble as some of the men lit their pipes. Never shall I forget the picture of the ship's company as they huddled in a bunch about the fore-hatch, the crimson light outlining with singular fierceness their rugged, bearded faces.
Page 93 - Bram!" Charley exclaimed, rushing toward the man who was sitting on the ground, his legs stretched out in front of him, his back against the side of a door at the back of Space Mountain. "Charley!
Page 234 - ... preparing for port, and this was in open kegs, which had been overturned, thus wasting an immense quantity. I can assure those who have never been similarly placed that the sight I saw when I rounded the forward house would whiten the face of the sturdiest of men, and no one on board dared...
Page 71 - These limits are not stationary, but follow the sun, being farthest to the south in February and to the north in August. The tract of low pressure between these wind systems is named the region of calms, owing to the calm weather which often prevaUs there, and it is also characterized by the frequent occurrence of heavy rains.