 | New-York Historical Society - New York (State) - 1841 - 518 pages
...northwardly, in twenty-four days more, having run four hundred leagues, we reached a new coun« try, which had never before been seen by any one, either...securely. Seeing the coast still stretched to the south, we resolved to change our course and stand to the northward, and as we still had the same difficulty,... | |
 | HENRY G. MURPHY - 1875 - 222 pages
...pleasant easterly breeze, in twenty-five days we ran eight hundred leagues. On the 24th of Fqbruary we encountered as violent a hurricane as any ship...securely. Seeing the coast still stretched to the south, we resolved to change our course and stand to the northward, and as we still had the same difficulty,... | |
 | Henry Cruse Murphy - North America - 1875 - 230 pages
...inhabited. We perceived that it stretched to the south, and coasted along in that direction in seareh of some port, in which we might come to anchor, and...but for fifty leagues we could find none in which wo could lie securely. Seeing the coast still stretched to the south, we resolved to change our course... | |
 | Henry Cruse Murphy - America - 1875 - 230 pages
...coasted along in that direction in search of some port in which we might come to anchor, and examine L. into the nature of the country, but for fifty leagues...we could find none in which we could lie securely." 50 Second. " Seeing the coast still stretched to the south we resolved to change our course and stand... | |
 | Barnard Shipp - Biography & Autobiography - 1881 - 720 pages
...was inhabited. We perceived that it stretched to the south, and coasted along in that direction in v search of some port, in which we might come to anchor,...nature of the country, but for fifty leagues we could discover none in which we could be secure. Seeing the coast stjjll stretching to the south, we resolved... | |
 | E. E. Hale - 1882 - 310 pages
...good ship, that had been able to support the violent tossing of the waves. Pursuing our voyage toward the west, a little northwardly, in twenty-four days...securely. Seeing the coast still stretched to the south, we resolved to change our course and stand to the northward, and as we still had the same difficulty,... | |
 | Edward Everett Hale - Discoveries in geography - 1883 - 308 pages
...good ship, that had been able to support the violent tossing of the waves. Pursuing our voyage toward the west, a little northwardly, in twenty-four days...securely. Seeing the coast still stretched to the south, we resolved to change our course and stand to the northward, and as we still had the same difficulty,... | |
 | Benson John Lossing, John Fiske, Woodrow Wilson - United States - 1901 - 544 pages
...the West, a little northwardly, in twenty-four days more, having run four hundred leagues, we readied a new country, which had never before been seen by...which we could lie securely. Seeing the coast still stretch to the south, we resolved to change our course and stand to the northward, and as we still... | |
 | Albert Bushnell Hart - United States - 1902 - 640 pages
...some port in which we might come to an anchor and examine into the nature of the country ; but (or fifty leagues we could find none in which we could...securely. Seeing the coast still stretched to the south, we resolved to change our course and stand to the northward ; and as we still had the same difficulty,... | |
 | Alfred Brittain, George Edward Reed - History - 1903 - 696 pages
...the south, and coasted along in that direction in search of some port in which we might come to an anchor and examine into the nature of the country;...securely. Seeing the coast still stretched to the south, we resolved to change our course and stand to the northward ; and as we still had the same difficulty,... | |
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... times. At first it appeared to be very low, but on approaching it to within a quarter of a league from the shore we perceived, by the great fires near the coast, that it was inhabited. We perceived that it stretched to the south, and coasted along... 
