Robinson Crusoe's Own Book - Or The Voice Of Adventure (1843) (Hardcover)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Year. Dogs catch Fish, Men ride on Turtle, and RaU make their Nests on the Tops of high Palm-Trees .............................. 360 1819. J. B. Romaigne's Journal of THE BLACK VOYAGE OF LE RODEUR; with an Account Of King Peppel, of Bonny, in the Gulf of Guinea ................ 370 1820. THE PERILOUS LIFE OF NATHANIEL PEARCE, including his Nine Years' Residence In Abyssinia, where he married, and was engaged in the Wars of the Country ............. 383 1810. THE NARRATIVE OF ROBERT ADAMS, an American Sailor, Who Was Wrectod On The Western Coast or Africa, where he was detained Three Years in Slavery, by the Arabs of the Great Desert. He was The First White Maw Who Ever Visited The GREAT CITY OF TOMBUCTOO, where he resided several Months ............................ 403 "This vast phenomenon, whose lofty head, In heaven immersed, embracing clouds overspread, Still round and round, the fluid vortex flies, Diffusing briny vapors o'er the skies.' The blowing up of the Ship Tonquin, at the Mouth of the Columbia River, for the Purpose of destroying the Savages, who had taken Possession of her, and of whom one hundred were killed. ADVENTURES AT THE FALKLAND ISLANDS; Including the. Extraordinary Events narrated in the Journal of Captain Charles H. Barnard, who resided on the Uninhabited Islands of this Group for Two Years. ITUATED in the South Atlantic Ocean, where the mariner guides his course at night by the sacred constellation of the Southern Crospjfdhe Falkland Islands, to th number of two hundred, lay scattered between the parallels of 51 and 53 S., and extending from near 57 almost to 62 W.; but the only two of considerable size are East and West Falkland: between these latter is the channel called Falkland Sound. In entering this sound...