 | John Smith - America - 1819 - 278 pages
...want of nets (our barge driuing amongst them) we attempted to catch them with a frying pan: but we found it a bad instrument to catch fish with: neither better fish, more plenty, nor more variety for sinal fish, had any of vs euer scene in any place so swimming in the water, but they are not to be... | |
 | John Leeds Bozman - Maryland - 1837 - 338 pages
...want of nets (our barge driuing amongst them) we attempted to catch them with " frying pan ; but we found it a bad instrument to catch fish with ; neither better fish, more plenty, nor more variety for small fish, had any of vs euer scene in any place so swimming in the water, but they are not to be... | |
 | James Wimer - Indian captivities - 1841 - 664 pages
...purpose, he persists in adding, that "neither better fish, more plentie, nor more varictie for small fish, had any of vs euer seene in any place so swimming in the water — but they were not to be caught with frying-pans." He found the stingrays in such abundance among the reeds at... | |
 | John Thomas Scharf - Maryland - 1879 - 598 pages
...want of nets (our barge drilling amongst them) we attempted to catch them with a frying pan ; but we found it a bad instrument to catch fish with ; neither better fish, more plenty, nor more variety for small fish, had any of vs cuer scene in any place so swimming in the water, but they arc not to be... | |
 | John Thomas Scharf - Maryland - 1879 - 594 pages
...want of nets (our barge drilling amongst them) we attempted to catch them with a frying pan ; but we found it a bad instrument to catch fish with ; neither better fish, more plenty, nor more variety for small fish, had any of vs euer scene in any place so swimming in the water, but they are not to be... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner - Explorers - 1881 - 324 pages
...for want of nets (our barge driving among them) we attempted to catch them with a frying-pan ; but we found it a bad instrument to catch fish with , neither better fish, more plenty, nor more variety for small fish, had any of us ever seen in any place, so swimming in the water, but they are not to be... | |
 | John Smith - United States - 1895 - 620 pages
...to catch them with Anaboun- a frying pan : but we found it a bad instrument to catch jJ?fiLh>.'en'y fish with : neither better fish, more plenty, nor more variety for smal fish, had any of vs euer scene in any place so swimming in the water, but they are not to be caught with frying pans. Some small... | |
 | William Wallace Tooker - Algonquian languages - 1901 - 72 pages
...want of nets (our barge driving amongst them) we attempted to catch them with a frying pan ; but we found it a bad instrument to catch fish with ; neither better fish, more plenty, nor more variety for small fish, had any of us ever scene in any place so swimming in the water, but they are not to be... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner - American essays - 1904 - 512 pages
...for want of nets (our barge driving among them) we attempted to catch them with a frying-pan ; but we found it a bad instrument to catch fish with; neither better fish, more plenty, nor more variety for small fish, had any of us ever seen in any place, so swimming in the water, .~i but they are not to... | |
 | Samuel Purchas - Voyages and travels - 1906 - 592 pages
...want of nets (our Barge driving amongst them) we attempted to catch them with a Frying-pan, but wee found it a bad instrument to catch fish with. Neither better fish, more plenty, or variety, had any of us ever seene, in any place swimming in the water, then in the Bay of Chesabeack,... | |
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... abundance of fish, lying so thick with their heads above the water, as for want of nets (our barge driving amongst them) we attempted to catch them with a frying pan: but we found it a bad instrument to catch fish with: neither better fish, more plenty,... 
