A Lady's Cruise in a French Man-of-war, Volume 2 |
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Page 49
... delicate lilac and purply blue . The reef appears from the semaphore to lie in the form of a horse - shoe , so that it literally suggests a rainbow beneath the waters . By the time Mr Green came to drive me back to breakfast , I was ...
... delicate lilac and purply blue . The reef appears from the semaphore to lie in the form of a horse - shoe , so that it literally suggests a rainbow beneath the waters . By the time Mr Green came to drive me back to breakfast , I was ...
Page 51
... suggestive of large full - blown thistles , and all more or less resemble hedgehogs or porcupines . One very delicate flat kind is pure 1 Acanthaster solaris . 2 Acrocladia mamillata . white , and marked on the back with a very.
... suggestive of large full - blown thistles , and all more or less resemble hedgehogs or porcupines . One very delicate flat kind is pure 1 Acanthaster solaris . 2 Acrocladia mamillata . white , and marked on the back with a very.
Page 53
... delicate pale - green fish , with perhaps a tiny silvery eel or two ; and some there are pure scarlet , others bright blue streaked with scarlet . These and a thousand more , varying in form as in colour , but all alike minute , are ...
... delicate pale - green fish , with perhaps a tiny silvery eel or two ; and some there are pure scarlet , others bright blue streaked with scarlet . These and a thousand more , varying in form as in colour , but all alike minute , are ...
Page 61
... delicate young cuttle - fish in the shallows on the reef ; but sometimes the tables are turned and they are themselves caught by over- grown monsters , which lie concealed in deep holes in the coral , and throw out long arms covered ...
... delicate young cuttle - fish in the shallows on the reef ; but sometimes the tables are turned and they are themselves caught by over- grown monsters , which lie concealed in deep holes in the coral , and throw out long arms covered ...
Page 80
... delicate reva- reva . They made an address and sang the himènes of welcome which should have greeted the royalties on their landing . Then the chiefs presented their beautiful garments to the principal persons present , and all the ...
... delicate reva- reva . They made an address and sang the himènes of welcome which should have greeted the royalties on their landing . Then the chiefs presented their beautiful garments to the principal persons present , and all the ...
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