| Asia - 1819 - 656 pages
...carried upwards o^ninety miles on their shoulders, thereby enabling us In overcome obstacles other\V'M insurmountable. Until within these few days, I hoped...expedition without accident to any individual composing it ; hut such is the ferocious treachery of the natives along the roast to the northward, that our utmost... | |
| History - 1820 - 848 pages
...laid down in the chart, I should have hesitated to have attempted the passage, without assistance to the sea-ward. As it is, we are indebted for our preservation,...circumspection could not save us from having one man ( W. Blake ) severely wounded by them ; but by the skilful care bestowed upon him by Dr. Harris (who... | |
| William Charles Wentworth - Medical personnel and patient - 1820 - 616 pages
...with the most cheerful alacrity carried upwards of ninety miles on their shoulders, thereby enablmg us to overcome obstacles otherwise insurmountable....the natives along the coast to the northward, that om utmost circumspection could not save us from having one man (William Blake) severely wounded by... | |
| Walter Scott - Europe - 1823 - 944 pages
...the most cheerful alacrity carried upwards of ninety miles on their shoulders, thereby enabling them to overcome obstacles otherwise insurmountable. "...northward, that our utmost circumspection could not Ťave us from having one man (William Blake) severely wounded by them, but by the skilful care bestowed... | |
| Australia. Parliament. Joint Library Committee - Australia - 1917 - 978 pages
...discovery of a smnll boat on the beach, which the men with the most chearful alacrity carried upwards of 90 miles on their shoulders, thereby enabling us to overcome...the Natives along the Coast to the Northward that William Blake our utmost circumspection could not save us from having one native'. * man (William Blake)... | |
| Edmund Burke - History - 1820 - 894 pages
...discovery of a small boat on the beach, which the men with the most cheerful alacrity carried UDwards of ninety miles on their shoulders, thereby enabling...that our utmost circumspection could not save us from naving one man ( W. Blake) severely wounded by them ; but by the skilful care bestowed upon him by... | |
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