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- Frontmatter
- PREFACE
- Contents
- CHAPTER I FROM MR. WILLIAMS'S BIRTH UNTIL HIS DEPARTURE FOR THE SOUTH SEAS
- CHAPTER II FROM HIS DEPARTURE UNTIL THE TERMINATION OF HIS FIRST YEAR'S RESIDENCE AT RAIATEA
- CHAPTER III FROM THE COMMENCEMENT OF HIS SECOND YEAR's LABOURS AT RAIATEA UNTIL THE CLOSE OF 1822
- CHAPTER IV FROM HIS FIRST, UNTIL HIS SECOND MISSIONARY VOYAGE TO THE HERVEY ISLANDS
- CHAPTER V FROM HIS SECOND VOYAGE TO THE HERVEY ISLANDS UNTIL HIS FIRST MISSIONARY ENTERPRISE TO SAMOA
- CHAPTER VI FROM HIS FIRST, UNTIL HIS SECOND VOYAGE TO SAMOA
- CHAPTER VII FROM HIS SECOND VOYAGE TO SAMOA UNTIL HIS DEPARTURE FOR ENGLAND
- CHAPTER VIII FROM HIS ARRIVAL IN ENGLAND UNTIL HIS RETURN TO THE SOUTH SEAS
- CHAPTER IX FROM HIS DEPARTURE IN THE CAMDEN UNTIL HIS DEATH
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CHAPTER II - FROM HIS DEPARTURE UNTIL THE TERMINATION OF HIS FIRST YEAR'S RESIDENCE AT RAIATEA
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 September 2011
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE
- Contents
- CHAPTER I FROM MR. WILLIAMS'S BIRTH UNTIL HIS DEPARTURE FOR THE SOUTH SEAS
- CHAPTER II FROM HIS DEPARTURE UNTIL THE TERMINATION OF HIS FIRST YEAR'S RESIDENCE AT RAIATEA
- CHAPTER III FROM THE COMMENCEMENT OF HIS SECOND YEAR's LABOURS AT RAIATEA UNTIL THE CLOSE OF 1822
- CHAPTER IV FROM HIS FIRST, UNTIL HIS SECOND MISSIONARY VOYAGE TO THE HERVEY ISLANDS
- CHAPTER V FROM HIS SECOND VOYAGE TO THE HERVEY ISLANDS UNTIL HIS FIRST MISSIONARY ENTERPRISE TO SAMOA
- CHAPTER VI FROM HIS FIRST, UNTIL HIS SECOND VOYAGE TO SAMOA
- CHAPTER VII FROM HIS SECOND VOYAGE TO SAMOA UNTIL HIS DEPARTURE FOR ENGLAND
- CHAPTER VIII FROM HIS ARRIVAL IN ENGLAND UNTIL HIS RETURN TO THE SOUTH SEAS
- CHAPTER IX FROM HIS DEPARTURE IN THE CAMDEN UNTIL HIS DEATH
- Plate section
Summary
A first sea-voyage brings with it privations and pleasures peculiar to itself. But whether the influence of the one or of the other shall predominate, depends far less upon the circumstances of the voyage, than upon the character of the voyager. By many minds it is contemplated with anxiety, and associated only with danger and distress; but to others, the broad deep sea, that
“glorious mirror where the Almighty's form
Glasses itself in tempests,”
presents various scenes and objects of interest, which amply compensate for the temporary privations they sustain, while traversing its bosom. To this class Mr. Williams belonged. The buoyant spirit with which, as we have seen, he commenced the voyage, retained its elastic energy unrelaxed and unimpaired to its termination. His letters clearly prove that all the novelties which met his eye ministered to his enjoyment. The sharks and sea birds, the falling on the deck of a fugitive flying fish, the occasional shipping of a heavy sea, the distant view of Palma and Teneriffe, the crossing of the line with the absurdities of Neptune and his demigods, contributed their full share to his gratification. But he was still more deeply interested in the structure of the vessel in which he sailed.
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- Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010First published in: 1843