 | John Crawfurd - Austronesian languages - 1820 - 587 pages
...taking the nests must often be performed with torchlight, by penetrating into recesses of the rock, when the slightest trip would be instantly fatal to the...turbulent surf making its way into the chasms of the rock. The only preparation which the birds* nests undergo is that of simple drying, without direct exposure... | |
 | Books - 1831 - 652 pages
...the nests must often be performed with torch light, by penetrating into recesses of the rock, when the slightest trip would be instantly fatal to the...turbulent surf making its way into the chasms of the rock. The only preparation which the birds' nests undergo, is that of simple drying without direct exposure... | |
 | Samuel Roper - 1832 - 178 pages
...the nests must often be performed with torch-light, by penetrating into recesses of the rock, when the slightest trip would be instantly fatal to the...turbulent surf making its way into the chasms of the rock. The only preparation which the birds' nests undergo, is that of simple drying, without direct exposure... | |
 | China - 1833 - 2950 pages
...often be performed by torch-light, by penetrating into recesses of the rock, where the slightest slip would be instantly fatal to the adventurers, who see...surf making its way into the chasms of the rock." Such is the price paid to gratify luxury. After they are obtained, they arc separated from feathers... | |
 | Gilbert Thomas Burnett - Botany - 1835 - 538 pages
...person of great opulence. (258.) The collecting birds' nests appears from Mr. Crawford's account, to be as perilous a toil as our fearful trade of gathering...chasms of the rock. — Crawford's Eastern Archipelago. (259.) The Rhodomela pinastrb'ides, or rose-black, is a very Rhodomela pinastriiidea. (a) Branch with... | |
 | Gilbert Thomas Burnett - Botany - 1835 - 1050 pages
...perilous office of taking the nests must often be performed by torch-light, OUTLINES OF ALGOLOOIA. by penetrating into the recesses of the rock, where...chasms of the rock. — Crawford's Eastern Archipelago. (259.) The Rhodomela pinastrb'ides, or rose-black, is a very Khodomela pinastrbkles. (a) Branch with... | |
 | Religious Tract Society (Great Britain) - Birds - 1835 - 604 pages
...nests must be often performed with torch-light, by penetrating into the recesses of the rock, when the slightest trip would be instantly fatal to the...turbulent surf making its way into the chasms of the rock. The only preparation which the birds' nests undergo is that of simple drying, without direct exposure... | |
 | Henry Duncan - 1836 - 434 pages
...the perilous office of taking the nests must often be performed by torch-light, by penetrating into recesses of the rock, where the slightest trip would...turbulent surf, making its way into the chasms of the rocks. The common prices for these nests at Canton, are, for the most esteemed kinds, about six pounds... | |
 | Church history - 1837 - 844 pages
...torch-light, by penetrating into recesses of the rock, where the slightest trip would be instantly fartai to the adventurers, who see nothing below them but...turbulent surf, making its way into the chasms of the rocks. The common prices for these nesta at Canton, are, for the most esteemed kinds, «bout six pounds... | |
 | Percy Bolingbroke St. John - Birds - 1838 - 208 pages
...the perilous office of taking the nests must often be performed with torch-light, by penetrating into recesses of the rock, where the slightest trip would...turbulent surf making its way into the chasms of the rock. "The only preparation which the birds' nests undergo is that of simple drying, without direct exposure... | |
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In one place the caves are only to be approached by a perpendicular descent of many hundred feet by ladders of bamboo and rattan, over a sea rolling violently against the rocks. When the mouth of the cavern is attained, the perilous office of taking the... 
