weather having greatly moderated, Captain Taylor, who now commanded the SMEATON, sailed at two o'cl...
2011-12-05
Songs of Travel and Other Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson CONTENTS I. THE VAGABOND - Give to me ...
Let Beauty awake in the eve from the slumber of day, Awake in the crimson eve! In the day's dusk e...
Since then my steps have visited that flood Along whose shore the numerous footfalls cease, The vo...
Soon after the artificers landed they commenced work; but the wind coming to blow hard, the SMEATON...
it, which were carried by the wind as far aft as the quarter- deck, and not infrequently over the s...
[Monday, 7th Sept.] This morning, about eight o'clock, the writer was agreeably surprised to see t...
required a considerable degree of trouble to get their upper ends to fit. Here they formed the apex...
II - OPERATIONS OF 1808 [Monday, 29th Feb.] The writer sailed from Arbroath at one a.m. in the Li...
a.m. [Monday, 30th May] Mr. Francis Watt commenced, with five joiners, to fit up a temporary plat...
workmen became much more cautious, and on some occasions their timidity was rather troublesome. It ...
height and three feet in diameter at the middle, tapering to both ends, being what seamen term a NU...
laid upon the building had been partially lifted from their beds by the force of the sea, and were ...
top of the building, three cheers were given in testimony of this important circumstance. A glass o...
under such considerations you are getting up your spirits. I wish you would walk about, and by all ...