 | American periodicals - 1847 - 640 pages
...increased the horror of the scene. Providentially they gradually forged past each other and eeparated before we drifted down amongst the foaming breakers...she left us completely disabled ; the wreck of the spare so encumbered the lower yards, that we were unable to make sail, so as to get headway on the... | |
 | American periodicals - 1847 - 610 pages
...breaking upperworke and boats increased the hoiror of the scene. Providentially they gradually forged past each other and separated before we drifted down...her clear the end of the berg and of feeling that «he was safe. But she left ne completely disabled ; the wreck of the spars so encumbered the lower... | |
 | 1848 - 626 pages
...breaking upper-works and boats increased the horror of the scene. Providentially they gradually forged past each other, and separated before we drifted down...spars so encumbered the lower yards, that we were nnablo to make sail, so as to get headway on the ship ; nor had we room to wear round, beinj; by this... | |
 | 1848 - 530 pages
...breaking upper- works and boats increased the horror of the scene. Providentially they gradually forged past each other, and separated before we drifted down...disabled ; the wreck of the spars so encumbered the lower yard?, that we were unable to make sail, so as to get headway on the ship ; nor had we room to wear... | |
 | James Hogg - 1848 - 446 pages
...breaking upper-works and boats increased the horror of the scene. Providentially they gradually forged past each other and separated before we drifted down...end of the berg and of feeling that she was safe.' On the 6th of April, after riding out the heavy gales and escaping the shoals of ice and the rolling... | |
 | John Stilwell Jenkins - Antarctica - 1853 - 534 pages
...breaking upperworks and boats increased the horror of the scene. Providentially they gradually forged past each other, and separated before we drifted down...she was safe. But she left us completely disabled j the wreck of the spars so encumbered the lower yards that we were unable to make sail so as to get... | |
 | Francis Egerton Earl of Ellesmere - Books - 1858 - 488 pages
...breaking upperworks and boats increased the horror of the scene. Providentially they gradually forged past each other and separated before we drifted down amongst the foaming breakers — and we bad the gratification of seeing her clear the end of the berg and of feeling that she was safe. But... | |
 | Francis Egerton Earl of Ellesmere - Books - 1858 - 498 pages
...breaking upperworks and boats increased the horror of the scene. Providentially they gradually forged past each other and separated before we drifted down amongst the foaming breakers—and we had the gratification of seeing her clear the end of the berg and of feeling that... | |
 | Charles Tomlinson - Glaciers - 1862 - 284 pages
...upper-works and boats increased the horror of the scene. Providentially the ships gradually forged past each other, and separated before we drifted down...breakers ; and we had the gratification of seeing the Terror clear the end of the berg, and of feeling that she was safe. But she left us completely... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1867 - 142 pages
...scene. Providentially they gradually forged past each other, and separated before we drifted down among the foaming breakers, and we had the gratification...so encumbered the lower yards, that we were unable THE EREEUS AND THE TERROR AMONQ ICEBERGS. to make sail, so ag to get headway on the ship; nor had we... | |
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... rose high above us, almost exposing her keel to view, and again descended as we in our turn rose to the top of the wave, threatening to bury her beneath us, whilst the crashing of the breaking upperworks and boats increased the horror of the scene.... 
