Vengeance
had her own_.
Byron
84, 208, 209.
)]
[363] {595}[Byron must mean "antarctic. " "Arctic" is used figuratively
for "cold," but not as a synonym for "polar. "]
[fc] _Now swelled now sighed along_----. --[MS. D. erased. ]
[364] ["At dawn of day some of my people seemed half dead; our
appearances were horrible; and I could look no way, but I caught the eye
of some one in distress. "--_A Narrative, etc. _, p. 37. Later on, p. 80,
when the launch reached Timor, he speaks of the crew as "so many
spectres, whose ghastly countenances, if the cause had been unknown,
would have excited terror rather than pity. "]
[365] [Bligh dwells on the misery caused to the luckless crew by
drenching rains and by hunger, but says that no one suffered from
thirst. ]
[fd] {596} _Nor yet unpitied.
Vengeance had her own_. --[MS. D. erased. ]
[fe] ----_the undisputed root_. --[MS. D. erased. ]
[366] The now celebrated bread fruit, to transplant which Captain
Bligh's expedition was undertaken.
[The bread-fruit (_Autocarpus incisa_) was discovered by Dampier, in
1688. "Cook says that its taste is insipid, with a slight sweetness,
somewhat resembling that of the crumb of wheaten bread mixed with a
Jerusalem artichoke. "--_The Eventful History, etc. _, 1831, p. 43. ]
[367] [See _Letters from Mr. Fletcher Christian_ (_pseud_.
[363] {595}[Byron must mean "antarctic. " "Arctic" is used figuratively
for "cold," but not as a synonym for "polar. "]
[fc] _Now swelled now sighed along_----. --[MS. D. erased. ]
[364] ["At dawn of day some of my people seemed half dead; our
appearances were horrible; and I could look no way, but I caught the eye
of some one in distress. "--_A Narrative, etc. _, p. 37. Later on, p. 80,
when the launch reached Timor, he speaks of the crew as "so many
spectres, whose ghastly countenances, if the cause had been unknown,
would have excited terror rather than pity. "]
[365] [Bligh dwells on the misery caused to the luckless crew by
drenching rains and by hunger, but says that no one suffered from
thirst. ]
[fd] {596} _Nor yet unpitied.
Vengeance had her own_. --[MS. D. erased. ]
[fe] ----_the undisputed root_. --[MS. D. erased. ]
[366] The now celebrated bread fruit, to transplant which Captain
Bligh's expedition was undertaken.
[The bread-fruit (_Autocarpus incisa_) was discovered by Dampier, in
1688. "Cook says that its taste is insipid, with a slight sweetness,
somewhat resembling that of the crumb of wheaten bread mixed with a
Jerusalem artichoke. "--_The Eventful History, etc. _, 1831, p. 43. ]
[367] [See _Letters from Mr. Fletcher Christian_ (_pseud_.
