 | John Wesley - Biography - 1796 - 666 pages
...fupporting eighteen men in a crazy open boat, 23 feet long from ftern to ftern, and reftrifted to live on one ounce of bread, and a quarter of a pint of water, per day. They happily accomplifhed their Voyage in 46 days, altho' the diftance from Tofoa is calculated... | |
 | History - 1790 - 522 pages
...where was a Dutch fettlement, but in what part of the ifland I knew not, they all agreed to live on one ounce of bread, and a quarter of a pint of water, per day. Therefore, after examining our ftoclc of provifions, and recommending tills as a facred promife... | |
 | English periodicals - 1790 - 566 pages
...acrofs a fea, where the navigation is but little known, the crew having promifed to be contented with one ounce of bread, and a quarter of a pint of water, per day.j the whole ftock was i5olb. of bread, 28 gallons of water, 2Olb. of pork, 3 bottles of wine,... | |
 | Curiosities and wonders - 1791 - 508 pages
...probability of reaching the object of their wiflies, they all promifed, in the moft folemn manner, to live on one ounce of bread and a quarter of a pint of water a -day. It would far exceed the bounds we can allow to give a minute detail of the various hardfhips... | |
 | 1796 - 446 pages
...fettlement, but in what part of the ifland I knew not, — to effe£t which, they all agreed to live on one ounce of bread, and a quarter of a pint of water per day. Thereforej after examining our ftock of provifions, and recommending to them, in the moft... | |
 | David Woodard (Captain.) - Shipwrecks - 1804 - 310 pages
...pounds of pork, three bottles of wine, and five quarts of ritm: They all solemnly agreed to live upon one ounce of bread and a quarter of a pint of water per day. A few cocoa-nuts and some bread-fruit were on board, but the latter was trampled to pieces.... | |
 | R. P. Forster - Voyages and travels - 1818 - 592 pages
...where was a Dutch settlement, but in what part of the island I knew not, they all agreed to live on one ounce of bread, and a quarter of a pint of water, per dav. Therefore, after examining our stock of provisions, and recommending this as a sacred promise... | |
 | Great Britain - 1821 - 682 pages
...the mutineers. It will be recollt'cted that Capt. Blyth and his companions, after a voyage of 1 20O leagues (during which the only subsistence they had...ounce of bread and a quarter of a pint of water each day), had the good fortune to arrive safe at the Dutch settlement of Cupan, in the island of Timor.... | |
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... across a sea where the navigation is but little known, in a small boat, twenty-three feet long from stem to stern... 
