 I at that moment believed was ebbing with my blood away ; the loveliness of nature was around me, the sun rejoicing in his cloudless career, the birds were filling the woods with their songs, and my friends far away and unapprehensive of my condition,...  Cassell's Picturesque Australasia - Page 114edited by - 1880Full view - About this book
 | George Grey - Aboriginal Australians - 1841 - 472 pages
...sounds, that I might defend a life which I at that moment believed was ebbing with my blood away ; the loveliness of nature was around me, the sun rejoicing...there. And in this way very many explorers yearly die. One poor youth,* my own friend and companion, has thus fallen since the circumstances above described... | |
 | 1842 - 528 pages
...sounds, that I might defend a life which I at that moment believed was ebbing with my blood away ; the loveliness of nature was around me, the sun rejoicing...there. And in this way very many explorers yearly die. One poor youth, my own friend and companion, has thus fallen since the circumstances above described... | |
 | 1842 - 300 pages
...slightest sounds, that I might defend a life which I at that moment believed was ebbing with my blood away; the loveliness of nature was around me, the sun rejoicing..." And in this way very many explorers yearly die. One poor youth,i my own friend and companion, has thus fallen since the circumstances above described... | |
 | 192 pages
...sounds, that I might defend a life which I at that moment believed was ebbing with my blood away ; the loveliness of nature was around me, the sun rejoicing...there. And in this way very many explorers yearly die. One poor youth, my own friend and companion, has thus fallen since the circumstances above described... | |
 | William Howitt - Australia - 1865 - 450 pages
...such as many a one beside himself has made in the Australian wilds under the same circumstances: — "The loveliness of nature was around me ; the sun...friends far away, and unapprehensive of my condition. " And in this way very many explorers yearly die. One youth, my own friend and companion — Mr. Frederick... | |
 | Edward Ellis Morris - Australasia - 1890 - 354 pages
...party. The Cape was left on the 13th of October, and at sunset on December 2nd, the vessel anchored oft' Entrance Island, Port George the Fourth, in the north-west...... A strange sun shines upon their lonely graves, the foot of the wild man yet roams over them; but let us hope, when civilisation has spread so far,... | |
 | William Lee Rees, Lily Rees - Australia - 1892 - 510 pages
...sounds, that I might defend a life which I, at that moment, Twlwved w»s eMiiflg with my blood away. The loveliness of nature was around me, the sun rejoicing...condition, whilst I felt that I was dying there." For more than a fortnight he was unable to proceed any further. During the first night, while he was... | |
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