History of a Voyage to the China SeaWells and Lilly, 1823 - 372 páginas |
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Página 246 - ... what might have been better and easier gained by openness and fair dealing ; the tedious forms and ceremonies in transacting all kinds of business, carried into the most trifling transactions ; the uncertainty of the eventual ratification of any bargain, (the least hope of wearing the patience of the purchaser out, and inducing him to offer a little more, being sufficient to annul any verbal stipulation,) and there being no appeal, unless there is a written contract, which is never made till...
Página ii - Co. of the said district, have deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof they claim as proprietors, in the words following, to wit : " Tadeuskund, the Last King of the Lenape. An Historical Tale." In conformity to the Act of the Congress of the United States...
Página 256 - ... down together and slept. From this time they were inseparable; the tigress appearing to feel for the puppy all the solicitude of a mother, and the dog, in return, treating her with the greatest affection ; and a small aperture was left open in the cage, by which he had free ingress and egress. Experiments were subsequently made, by presenting a strange dog at the bars of the cage, when the tigress would manifest great eagerness to get at it; her adopted child was then thrown in, on which she...
Página 188 - I went into the cabin, where I found the noise, which I soon ascertained proceeded from the bottom of the vessel, increased to a full and uninterrupted chorus. The perceptions which occurred to me on this occasion were similar to those produced by the torpedo, or electric eel, which I had before felt. But whether these feelings were caused by the concussion of sound, or actual vibrations in the body of the vessel, I could neither then nor since determine.
Página 247 - China the least desirable country for mercantile adventurers. These causes have made the Japanese relinquish the trade ; they have driven the Portuguese of Macao from the country, and turned their commerce into other channels ; and are yearly and rapidly lessening their intercourse with China and Siam. The philanthropist, the man of enterprise, and the civilized world generally, can see in the present miserable state of this naturally fine country, no other than a source of deep regret and commiseration.
Página 237 - This canal is twelve feet deep throughout, about eighty feet wide, and was cut through immense forests and morasses in the short space of six weeks. Twenty-six thousand men were employed, night and day, by turns, in this stupendous undertaking ; and seven thousand lives were sacrificed by fatigue and consequent disease.
Página 263 - ... principal ingredient, and are sixty feet high. The pillars of the gates, which are of stone, are seventy feet high : over the arches, which are of the same materials, are towers from ninety to one hundred feet high, to which access is had by a handsome flight of stairs, on each side of the gateway, inside the walls. The fortress is of a quadrilateral form, and built on the plan of Strasbourg in Germany.
Página 43 - ... old boats, pig-styes, &c. which surrounded us in every direction; and, in order that no circumstance of ceremony should be omitted to honour their new guests, a most harmonious concert was immediately struck up by the swarm of little filthy children, in a STATE OF PERFECT NUDITY (which formed part of our procession) in which they were joined by their parents, THE SWINE and dogs before mentioned.
Página 33 - Albuquerque and other navigators and conquerors, after the discovery of the passage round the Cape of Good Hope, into the Indian Ocean, and who have spread themselves over great part of Asia.
Página 235 - I measured one plank, whose dimensions were one hundred and nine feet long, more than four inches thick, and perfectly square to the top, where it was two feet wide. It was sawed out of the trunk of a teak tree, and I believe there is no part of the world where these gigantic sires of the forest arrive at such magnitude as in Cochin China.