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The Poetical Works of Campbell, Goldsmith and Gray; With Memoirs of the Authors
The Poetical Works of Campbell Goldsmith and Gray With Memoirs of the Authors Author:Thomas Campbell General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1872 Original Publisher: T. Nelson and Sons Subjects: Literary Criticism / Poetry Poetry / General Poetry / Anthologies Poetry / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos ... more »or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: NOTES. Page 50. -- And such thy strength-inspiring aid that bare The hardy Byron to his native shore. The following picture of his own distress, given by Byron in his simple and interesting narrative, justifies the description in p. 18. After relating the barbarity of the Indian Cacique to his child, he proceeds thus: -- " A day or two after, we put to sea again, and crossed the great bay I mentioned we had been at the bottom of, when we first hauled away to the westward. The land here was very low and sandy, and something like the mouth of a river which discharged itself into the sea, and which had been taken no notice of by us before, as it was so shallow that the Indians were obliged to take everything out of their canoe, and carry it over land. We rowed up the river four or five leagues, and then took into a branch of it that ran first to the eastward and then to the northward: here it became much narrower, and the stream excessively rapid, so that we gained but little way, though we wrought very hard. At night we landed upon its banks, and had a most uncomfortable lodging, it being a perfect swamp; and we had nothing to cover us, though it rained excessively. The Indians were little better off than we, as there was no wood here to make their wigwams; so that all they could do was to prop up the bark, which they carry in the bottom of their canoes, and shelter themselves as well as they could to the leeward of it. Knowing the difficulties ...« less