 | World - 1868 - 528 Seiten
...a telescope every sail, the general rig of the ship, and its particular character, insomuch that I pronounced it to be my father's ship the Fame, which...proved to be ; though on comparing notes with my father when we met, I found that our relative position at the time gave our distance from one another very... | |
 | Robert Michael Ballantyne - 1874 - 328 Seiten
...examined with a telescope, I could distinguish every sail, the general 'rig of the ship,' and its peculiar character ; insomuch that I confidently pronounced...to be, though, on comparing notes with my father, T found that our relative positions at the time gave our distance from one another very nearly thirty... | |
 | World - 1874 - 452 Seiten
...a telescope every sail, the general rig of the ship, and its particular character, insomuch that I pronounced it to be my father's ship the Fame, which...proved to be ; though on comparing notes with my father when we met, I found that our relative position at the time gave our distance from one another very... | |
 | John Small - 1876 - 646 Seiten
...' It was,' he says, ' so well defined that I could see every sail, the general rig of the ship, and its particular character, insomuch that I confidently...with my father, I found that our relative position at the time gave a distance from one another of about thirty miles, being about seventeen miles beyond... | |
 | Robert Michael Ballantyne - 1876 - 248 Seiten
...examined with a telescope, I could distinguish every sail, the general 'rig of the ship,' and its peculiar character ; insomuch that I confidently pronounced...comparing notes with my father, I found that our relative positions at the time gave our distance from one another very nearly thirty miles, being about seventeen... | |
 | Half hours - 1877 - 402 Seiten
...a telescope, every sail, the general rig of the ship, and its particular character, insomuch that I pronounced it to be my father's ship, the Fame, which...proved to be, though on comparing notes with my father when we met, I found that our relative position at the time gave our distance from one another very... | |
 | New reader - 1879 - 392 Seiten
...a telescope, every sail, the general rig of the ship, and its particular character, insomuch that I pronounced it to be my father's ship the Fame, which...proved to be ; though on comparing notes with my father when we met, I found that at the time we were thirty miles from each other." In the hot sandy deserts... | |
 | Peter Guthrie Tait - 1898 - 548 Seiten
...examined with a telescope by Dollond, I could distinguish every sail, the general ' rig of the ship,' and its particular character ; insomuch that I confidently...with my Father, I found that our relative position at the time gave our distance from one another very nearly thirty miles, and some leagues beyond the... | |
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I could distinguish by a telescope every sail, the general rig of the ship, and its particular character; insomuch that I confidently pronounced it to be my father's ship the Fame, which it afterwards proved to be; though, on comparing notes with my father,... 
