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Heroes of Unknown Seas and Savage Lands

By: J. W. Buel

... pearls, gum, benzoin, frankincense, musk, amber, sandalwood, aloes, and other perfumes, and trinkets and the like." A NORTH-WEST PASSAGE. If our prof... ...kle, triple sets of sails, boards, pitch, oakum, all sorts of food, preserves, perfumes, all the medicines known to the pharmaceutist, and a doctor a... ... seats of the barges they were protected from the sun by a canopy or awning of perfumed mats, which were supported on a frame-work of reeds. Next to t... ...ng-a- muck, which may be described as a Javanese making himself intoxicated on opium and while in this condition seizing a dangerous weapon and runnin...

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