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Title: The story of Captain Cook's three voyages round the world
Year: 1870 (1870s)
Authors: Jones, M
Subjects: Cook, James, 1728-1779 Voyages around the world
Publisher: London : Cassell, Petter & Galpin
Contributing Library: Scott - York University Libraries
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for in the course of hisramble in the woods he met with something that, by hisown account, was queerer still, for he declared that, to thebest of his belief, he had seen the devil, with horns andwings, creeping through the grass so slowly that, but forJohns being afeard, as he said, he might have touchedhim. This hideous apparition proved to be a bat, which atthat side of the world is a big creature, as well as a veryugly one—as it is all the world over. The mans fright, itmust be said, had magnified the bat two or three dozen-fold, for he told his comrades that it was the size of agallon cask, whereas the poor thing was only as big as apartridge. Vegetables were found here by the wanderers, some worth-less, others good ; and as their nets supplied them withfish and their guns with occasional pigeons, the invalids—some of them had been suffering from scurvy—were all thebetter for it. The master, too, going out one day to seeka passage for the ship—when she should be thoroughly
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w mm? NEW SOUTH WALES. 6l tinkered up—through the innumerable shoals that lay be-tween her and blue water, found some cockles, so largethat two men—hungry sailors, be it remembered—could notmanage to eat the whole of one. Turtle were caught witha boat-hook on the same bank—they were not small, forthree of them weighed 791 pounds—and everybody wasthankful for these various additions to their cheer. It isall very fine for people who live at ease, and are well fedevery day, to say they dont care about what they eat ordrink; but set a man to live day after day upon salt porkor beef—salt horse, sailors used to call it, it was so coarseand hard—for a twelvemonth or so, and, philosophersthough they may be, they will sing another sort of tune,and think a few good meals of fresh provisions somethinglike a heaven upon earth, as these poor disease-strickenseamen did. Still no natives could be got hold of. At length, on the10th of July, four were seen in the distance, apparentlyspea

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