 | Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland - Asia - 1887 - 872 pages
...could over the sea-plain, and perchance thus might we somehow reach the mountain men do call Horai. So resolved we sculled further and further over the...along knowing not whitherwards, and so tossed we over ihe sea-plain, letting our boat follow the wind for five hundred days. Then, about the hour of the... | |
 | Frederick Victor Dickins - Japanese literature - 1888 - 154 pages
...food wo were driven to live upon roots ; now, again, indescribably terrible beings came forthTltnH would have devoured us ; or we had to sustain our...the sea. Beneath strange skies were we, and no human creaturo was there to give us succour; to many diseases fell we prey as we . drifted along knowing... | |
 | Clay MacCauley - Japanese literature - 1898 - 40 pages
...Horai. So resolved, we sculled further and further over the heaving waters, until far behind us lay ihe shores of our own land. And as we wandered thus, now...diseases fell we prey as we drifted along, knowing not whhherwards, and so tossed we over the sea-plain, letling our boat follow the wind for five hundred... | |
 | English literature - 1906 - 582 pages
...deep in the trough of the sea — we saw its very bottom belike ; now blown by the gale, we came upon strange lands, where creatures like demons fell upon...whitherwards, and so tossed we over the sea-plain, letting our ship drift before the wind for five hundred days. Then, about the hour of the dragon, four hours ere... | |
 | English literature - 1906 - 624 pages
...deep in the trough of the sea — we saw its very bottom belike ; now blown by the gale, we came upon strange lands, where creatures like demons fell upon...whitherwards, and so tossed we over the sea-plain, letting our ship drift before the wind for five hundred days. Then, about the hour of the dragon, four hours ere... | |
 | Japan Society of London - Japan - 1908 - 590 pages
...deep in the trough of the sea — we saw its very bottom belike ; now blown by the gale, we came upon strange lands, where creatures like demons fell upon...whitherwards, and so tossed we over the sea-plain, letting our ship drift before the wind for five hundred days. Then, about the hour of the dragon, four hours ere... | |
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... strange lands, where creatures like demons fell upon us and were like to have slain us Now, knowing neither whence we had come nor whither we tended, we were almost swallowed up by the sea ; now, failing of food we were driven to live upon roots ;... 