 We were scarce well headed for the pass before all heads were craned over the rail. For the water, shoaling under our board, became changed in a moment to surprising hues of blue and grey; and in its transparency the coral branched and blossomed, and...  The Novels and Tales of Robert Louis Stevenson - Page 70by Robert Louis Stevenson, Lloyd Osbourne, Fanny Van de Grift Stevenson, William Ernest Henley - 1901Full view - About this book
 | Education - 1897 - 404 pages
...became changed in a moment to surprising hues of blue and grey; and in its transparency the согд! branched and blossomed, and the fish of the inland...and striped, and even beaked like parrots. I have paid in my time to view many curiosities; never one so curious as that first sight over the ship's... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - 1896 - 618 pages
...sight over the ship's rail in the lagoon of Fakarava. But let not the reader be deceived with hope. I have since entered, I suppose, some dozen atolls...these shoals of rainbow fish, have not enraptured me again. Before we could raise our eyes from that engaging spectacle the schooner had slipped betwixt... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - Scottish literature - 1896 - 432 pages
...sight over the ship's rail in the lagoon of Fakarava. But let not the reader be deceived with hope. I have since entered, I suppose, some dozen atolls...these shoals of rainbow fish, have not enraptured me again. Before we could raise our eyes from that engaging spectacle the schooner had slipped betwixt... | |
 | Louis Stevenson - 1902 - 650 pages
...sight over the ship's rail in the lagoon of Fakarava. But let not the reader be deceived with hope. I have since entered, I suppose, some dozen atolls...these shoals of rainbow fish, have not enraptured me again. Before we could raise our eyes from that engaging spectacle the schooner had slipped betwixt... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - Polynesia - 1896 - 618 pages
...sight over the ship's rail in the lagoon of Fakarava. But let not the reader be deceived with hope. I have since entered, I suppose, some dozen atolls...these shoals of rainbow fish, have not enraptured me again. Before we could raise our eyes from that engaging spectacle the schooner had slipped betwixt... | |
 | Sir Graham Balfour - Authors, Scottish - 1901 - 296 pages
...go way, I no go look see ship; i no can, l no see, too much cly allee time in my eyes. You come, l smile, smile, no can make feast ; my heart too muchee...these shoals of rainbow fish, have not enraptured me again."i A fortnight spent in Fakarava passed uneventfully away. There were few inhabitants left on... | |
 | Sir Graham Balfour - Authors, English - 1901 - 300 pages
...feast; my heart too muchee glad, no can cook.' " Then China reabsorbed him, and he was seen no more. the lagoon in safety. It was a typical low island,...suppose, some dozen atolls in different parts of the Pacif1c, and the experience has never been repeated. That exquisite hue and transparency of submarine... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - Oceania - 1901 - 296 pages
...sight over the ship's rail in the lagoon of Fakarava. But let not the reader be deceived with hope. I have since entered, I suppose, some dozen atolls...these shoals of rainbow fish, have not enraptured me again. Before we could raise our eyes from that engaging spectacle the schooner had slipped betwixt... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - 1912 - 470 pages
...sight over the ship's rail in the lagoon of Fakarava. But let not the reader be deceived with hope. I have since entered, I suppose, some dozen atolls...these shoals of rainbow fish have not enraptured me again. Before we could raise our eyes from that engaging spectacle the schooner had slipped betwixt... | |
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