Olde PemaquidW.B. Clarke Company, 1909 - 431 pages |
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Page 111 - Christ Jesus our Lord. And grant, O most merciful Father; for his sake; That we may hereafter live a godly, righteous, and sober life, To the glory of thy holy Name. Amen.
Page 319 - Colder and louder blew the wind, A gale from the Northeast; The snow fell hissing in the brine, And the billows frothed like yeast. Down came the storm, and smote amain, The vessel in its strength; She shuddered and paused, like a frighted steed, Then leaped her cable's length.
Page 101 - They were all of one nation, but of several parts, and several families. This accident must be acknowledged the means, under God, of putting on foot and giving life to all our plantations.
Page 77 - When we please to walk abroad For our recreation, In the fields is our abode, Full of delectation : Where in a brook With a hook, Or a lake, Fish we take : There we sit, For a bit, Till we fish entangle.
Page 298 - Sonday, the chief of both the shipps, with the greatest part of all the company, landed on the island where the crosse stood, the which they called St. George's Island, and heard a sermon delivered unto them by Mr. Seymour, his preacher, and soe returned abourd againe.
Page 300 - Metynacus is also three plaine lles, but many great Rocks: Monahigan is a round high He, and close by it Monanis, betwixt which is a small Harbour where we rid; in Damerils lles is such another, Sagadahocke is knowne by Satquin, and foure or five lles in their mouth.
Page 304 - We found this Whale-fishing a costly conclusion; we saw many and spent much time in chasing them, but could not kill any. They being a...
Page 180 - Whilest the sailers fished, my selfe with eight or nine others of them might best bee spared ; Ranging the coast in a small boat...
Page 76 - he that considers the wind shall never sow ; " so he that busies his head too much about them, if the weather be not made extreme cold by an east wind, shall be a little superstitious : for as it is observed by some, that there is no good horse of a bad...
Page 53 - ships of all burthens; secured from all windes, which is such a necessary incomparable benefit, that in few places in England, or in any parts of Christendome, art, with great charges, can make the like.