Volume 181301

A general collection of voyages and travels, including the most interesting records of navigators and travellers, from the discovery of America by Columbus, in 1492, to the travels of Lord Valentia / [William Fordyce Mavor].

  • William Fordyce Mavor
Date:
1813
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A general collection of voyages and travels, including the most interesting records of navigators and travellers, from the discovery of America by Columbus, in 1492, to the travels of Lord Valentia / [William Fordyce Mavor]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    right: this never was made witha turning lathe: it is a bone which has been rounded by shaving-it.” ‘This answer silenced the company. Jt was now my turn to speak. I observed, that since on this occasion these sailors had told truth in what we had ‘heard decided, there was no room left for doubting the remainder of what was related by them. I come now to the return of our mariners: they arrived safe at Archangel the twenty-eighth of Sep- tember 1749, after, as ‘T have before noticed, having passed six years and three months in this dreadful se- clusion, The instant of meeting of the pilot and his wife was threatened with a melancholy catastrophe. . She was standing on the bridge as the vessel arrived: she re- cognised her husband ; she loved him most sincerely ; she had so long bewailed him as dead; but now, in- considerate, without patience to wait till the ship came to the pier, she threw herself forward to clasp him in her arms, fel] into the water, and with di poe cait was saved from perishing. I must now in conclusion remark, that these men, who had lived so long withaut bread, eat it now with reluctance. They complain of its puffing them out, The same objection, in short, they make to allsortsot drink, and now use rain water alone as their beverage. a nr TEES arr i; APPENDIX, Tse gentleman whom I mentioned in my narrative that I had consulted respecting the reckoning of our is- landers concerning the rising and setting of the sun, and whatever related to the course of that planet, was professor ‘D. Krazzenstein, member of the Imperial “Academy of Wissenschaften at Petersburg. This is the translation of the letter which he wrote to me on the subject :
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