| Herman Melville - Indigenous peoples - 1847 - 324 pages
...months at sea ! Yes, reader, as I live, six njonths out of sight of land; cruising after the sperm-whale beneath the scorching sun of the Line, and tossed...provisions were all exhausted. There is not a sweet potatoe left ; not a single yam. Those glorious bunches of banannas which once decorated our stern... | |
| Herman Melville - Indigenous peoples - 1850 - 492 pages
...reader, as I live, six months out of , sight of land; cruising after the sperm whale beneath the ci scorching sun of the Line, and tossed on the billows of the *- wide-rolfing Pacific — the sky above, the sea around, and r3'''hothing eke ! Weeks and weeks ago... | |
| Herman Melville - Marquesas Islands (French Polynesia) - 1892 - 466 pages
...months at sea ! Yes, reader, as I live, six months out of sight of land ; cruising after the sperm-whale beneath the scorching sun of the Line, and tossed...— the sky above, the sea around, and nothing else I Weeks and weeks ago our fresh provisions were all exhausted. There is not a sweet potato left ; not... | |
| Herman Melville - Indigenous peoples - 1893 - 344 pages
...months at sea! Yes, reader, as I live, six months out of sight of land; cruising after the sperm-whale beneath the scorching sun of the Line, and tossed on the billows of the widerolling Pacific-—the sky above, the sea around, and nothing else! Weeks and weeks ago our fresh provisions... | |
| George Philip Krapp - English language - 1908 - 300 pages
...months at sea! Yes, reader, as I live, six months out of sight of land, cruising after the sperm-whale beneath the scorching sun of the Line, and tossed...fresh provisions were all exhausted. There is not a sweetpotato left, not a single yam. Those glorious bunches of bananas which once decorated our stern... | |
| George Philip Krapp - English language - 1908 - 296 pages
...months at sea! Yes, reader, as I live, six months out of sight of land, cruising after the sperm-whale beneath the scorching sun of the Line, and tossed on the billows of the wide-rolling Pacific—the sky above, the sea around, and nothing else! Weeks and weeks ago our fresh provisions... | |
| Raymond Melbourne Weaver - 1921 - 442 pages
...cruising "some twenty degrees to the westward of the Gallipagos" — "cruising after the sperm-whale under the scorching sun of the Line, and tossed on the billows...the sky above, the sea around, and nothing else." The ship itself was, at the expiration of this period, deplorable in appearance. The paint on her sides,... | |
| Meade Minnigerode, Herman Melville - Novelists, American - 1922 - 238 pages
...months at sea ! Yes, reader, as I live, six months out of sight of land; cruising after the sperm-whale beneath the scorching sun of the Line, and tossed...provisions were all exhausted. There is not a sweet potatoe left; not a single yam. Those glorious bunches of banannas which once decorated our stern and... | |
| Meade Minnigerode, Herman Melville - Novelists, American - 1922 - 232 pages
...months at sea ! Yes, reader, as I live, six months out of sight of land; cruising after the sperm-whale beneath the scorching sun of the Line, and tossed...Pacific — the sky above, the sea around, and nothing elsel Weeks and weeks ago our fresh provisions were all exhausted. There is not a sweet potatoe left;... | |
| Herman Melville - Fiction - 1982 - 1358 pages
...MONTHS AT SEA! Yes, reader, as I live, six months out of sight of land; cruising after the sperm-whale beneath the scorching sun of the Line, and tossed...provisions were all exhausted. There is not a sweet potatoe left; not a single yam. Those glorious bunches of bananas which once decorated our stern and... | |
| |