Dangerous Voyage of Captain Bligh, in an Open Boat, Over 1200 Leagues of the Ocean, in the Year 1789: With an Appendix, Containing an Account of Otaheite, and of Some Productions of That Island
Dangerous Voyage of Captain Bligh, in an Open Boat, Over 1200 Leagues of the Ocean, in the Year 1789: With an Appendix, Containing an Account of Otaheite, and of Some Productions of That Island
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1820 edition. Excerpt: ... day, while at night it sits upon them and hatches them itself. When the young are sufficiently strong they break the shells and run towards the sea. These eggs are good food, tjut the flesh of the animal surpasses them: this is of a delicious flavour, wholesome, and exceedingly nutritive. The seamen ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1820 edition. Excerpt: ... day, while at night it sits upon them and hatches them itself. When the young are sufficiently strong they break the shells and run towards the sea. These eggs are good food, tjut the flesh of the animal surpasses them: this is of a delicious flavour, wholesome, and exceedingly nutritive. The seamen find nothing which contributes more to relieve them from the effects of the salt diet to which they must resort in long voyages: while the epicures of all wealthy cities find thenft the most luxurious dainty. It is not therefore surprising that they should be sought after wherever they are to be found, with great avidity, and that various modes of catching them should have been discovered. Sometimes they arc seen basking in the heat upon the surface of the sea; when they are thus observed, a man approaches quietly, so. as not to disturb their slumbers, dives underneath them, DEGREESnd thus takes Jhera by surprise. But the lightest noise rouses them, when they instantly plunge to the bottom. Another mode is adopted when the animal is seen floating; a man coming as near as he can in a boat, strikes it with a harpoon or barbed dart, to which a line is attached; it then sinks, but is shortly forced to return, and is thus taken in a manner something similar to that pursued in whale fishing, at we have already described it.. But the most successful mode of all is that of American seamen: They go to those shores of which the turtle is known to be fond, and lie in wait on the beach near the edge of the water, until the turtle thinks of returning to the sea very early in the morning before sunrise: as many as they can lay hold of, they turn upon the back and so leave them until all have been so treated. The creature is so helpless that it must continue
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