Scenes of American Wealth and Industry: In Produce, Manufactures, Trade, the Fisheries, &c. &c. for the Instruction and Amusement of Children and YouthAllen and Ticknor, 1833 - 224 էջ |
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Էջ 164 - In fact, it was a new sensation, which I cannot describe. I did not suffer it, however, to be of long duration. Once more I essayed, with a more fixed determination. Again I felt myself gliding through the slippery water, which, from its density, gave one the idea of swimming through a thick jelly ; again I experienced the same change of temperature in the water as I descended ; and again the agonising sensation in my ears and eyes made me waver.
Էջ 197 - On the heap of cascalhao, at equal distances, are placed three high chairs for the officers or overseers. After they are seated, the negroes enter the troughs, each provided with a rake...
Էջ 192 - ... practice of many years. It is in fact the earliest amusement of these people ; and I have often seen little boys, just beginning to run about, actively employed in lassoing cats, and entangling the legs of every dog that was unfortunate enough to pass within reach ; in due season they become very expert in their attacks on poultry ; and afterwards in catching wild birds ; so that by the time they are mounted on horseback, which is. always at an early age, they begin to acquire that matchless...
Էջ 12 - Immediately after breakfast, they divide into three gangs; one of which cuts down the trees, another hews them, and the third is employed with the oxen in hauling the timber, either to one general road leading to the banks of the nearest stream, or at once to the stream itself; fallen trees and other impediments in the way of the oxen are cut away with an axe. " The whole winter is thus spent in unremitting labour: the snow covers the ground from two to three feet from the setting in of winter until...
Էջ 163 - I felt in my ears and eyes ; in short, my mind being assailed by a thousand incomprehensible images, I ceased striking with my hands and legs ; I felt myself receding from the bottom. The delightful thought of once more beholding the blue heavens above me got the better of every other reflection ; I involuntarily changed the position of my body, and, in the next instant, found myself once more on the surface. How did my bosom inflate with the rapid inspirations of my natural atmosphere, and a sensation...
Էջ 163 - The change of temperature, from warm to cold, is most sensibly felt. Every fathom fills the imagination with some new idea of the dangerous folly of penetrating farther into the silent dominions of reckless monsters, where the skulls of the dead make perpetual grimaces, and the yawning jaws of sharks and tintereros, or the death-embrace of the manta, lie in wait for us. These impressions were augmented by the impossibility of the vision penetrating the twilight by which I was surrounded, together...
Էջ 190 - When driven from the water, this small number were more harassed than before, and, perceiving their danger, exerted themselves with redoubled violence. Sometimes we were obliged to ride hard ; and great coolness and address were necessary to prevent their escape behind us and into a wood, which we were now approaching. In this last respect, our efforts were vain : they gained this refuge, and we could no longer act in concert. The wood was full of thick bushes of myrtle, and many trees spread their...
Էջ 162 - I had been assured that so soon as the ears should burst, as it is technically called by the divers, there would be no difficulty in descending to any depth ; and wishing to become an accomplished diver, I determined to brave the excessive pain till the bursting should, as it were, liberate me from a kind of cord which...
Էջ 191 - ... his rider, who, with equal care, watched the maddening spirit of the beast, and gave signals to the horse. Convinced, at length, that his attempts to gore his leader were vain, the ox became sullen, and was partly dragged onward. While he was in this mood, the horse passed to the right of a detached bush, and the ox, by a sudden spring, got nearly abreast with him on the left : thus the lasso was brought over his back, and he was enabled to employ his utmost might to draw the horse round the...
Էջ 191 - I shall never forget the ardor and rapidity with which he afterwards darted and wheeled among the trees, nor lose the conviction fixed upon my mind, what execution such men, so trained, must be capable of in a country like this. " My musings were soon interrupted by reaching the beach, and seeing at a distance our young hero, with the ox securely attached to his horse by the lasso, and leading the captive towards the house. The instrument had gone round his horns, and was fixed close to the crown...