Narrative of the Adventures and Sufferings by Shipwreck and Imprisonment in an Overland Journey to India1821 |
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Page 128 - I got on my feet, and seized a rope, which I held in a state of great embarrassment, dubious what I should do to extricate myself. At this instant I perceived that Mr. Hall had got upon the...
Page 80 - ... victuals, &c. on the instant. The terror of this great man operated like magic ; nothing could exceed the activity of the men, the briskness of the women, and the terror of the children (for the...
Page 127 - The sight was horrible ; and the whole vessel presented a spectacle as dreadful to the feelings as mortifying to human pride. Fear had produced, not only all the helplessness of despondency, but all the mischievous freaks of insanity. In one place stood the Captain, raving, stamping, and tearing his hair in handfuls from his head here, some of the crew were...
Page 44 - ... which is arched, and serves for warehouses to store goods, for lodgings, and for stables, while the upper is used merely for lodgings ; besides which they are always accommodated with a fountain, and have cooks' shops and other conveniences to supply the wants of lodgers. In Aleppo, the caravanserais are almost exclusively occupied by merchants, to whom they are, like other houses, rented.
Page 127 - This gleam of happiness continued net long : a tremendous sea rolling after us, broke over our stern, tore every thing betore it, stove in the steerage, carried away the rudder, shivered the wheel to pieces, and tore up the very ringbolts of the deck : conveyed the men who stood at the wheel forward, and swept them overboard. I was standing at the time near the wheel, and fortunately had hold of the taffarel, which, enabled me to resist in part the weight of the wave. I was, however, swept off my...
Page 130 - ... so entirely exhausted our strength and spirits, that our best hope seemed to be a speedy conclusion to our painful death ; and we began to have serious intentions of letting go our hold, and yielding ourselves up at once to the fury of the waves. ' " The vessel, which all this time drifted with the sea and wind, gradually approximated the shore, and at length struck the ground, which for an instant revived our almost departed hopes ; but we soon found that it did not in the smallest degree better...
Page 110 - SAMIEL, is mentioned by the holy Job under the name of the East wind, and extends its ravages all the way from the extreme end of the Gulf of Cambaya up to Mosul ; it carries along with it flakes of fire, like threads of silk ; instantly strikes dead those that breathe it, and consumes them inwardly to ashes ; the flesh soon becoming black as a coal, and dropping off the bones.
Page 43 - Caravanserais were originally intended for, and are now pretty generally applied to, the accommodation of strangers and travellers, though, like every other good institution, sometimes perverted to the purposes of private emolument, or public job. They are built at proper distances through the roads of the Turkish dominions, and afford to the indigent or weary traveller an asylum from the inclemency of the weather...
Page 79 - Hence they become so habitually servile to their superiors, and by natural consequence insolent and overbearing to their inferiors, or those who, being in their power, they conceive to be so. As carriers of...
Page 127 - Ali's dominions, where we should meet with the most rigorous treatment, if not ultimate death, was forgotten in the joyful hope of saving life ; and we scudded towards the shore in all the exulting transports...