A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, 13. köideRobert Kerr W. Blackwood, 1815 |
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... piece , about two yards wide , and eleven yards long , they wrap several times round their waist , so as to hang down like a petticoat as low as the middle of the leg , and this they call Parou : Two or three other pieces , about two ...
... piece , about two yards wide , and eleven yards long , they wrap several times round their waist , so as to hang down like a petticoat as low as the middle of the leg , and this they call Parou : Two or three other pieces , about two ...
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... piece loosely over their shoulders , in the manner of a cloke , or perhaps two pieces , if they are very great personages , and are desirous to appear in state . The inferior sort , who have only a small allowance of cloth from the ...
... piece loosely over their shoulders , in the manner of a cloke , or perhaps two pieces , if they are very great personages , and are desirous to appear in state . The inferior sort , who have only a small allowance of cloth from the ...
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... piece of the rind of a plantain ; or of scarlet peas , stuck with gum upon a piece of wood : And sometimes they wear a kind of wig , made of the hair of men or dogs , or perhaps of cocoa - nut strings , woven upon one thread , which is ...
... piece of the rind of a plantain ; or of scarlet peas , stuck with gum upon a piece of wood : And sometimes they wear a kind of wig , made of the hair of men or dogs , or perhaps of cocoa - nut strings , woven upon one thread , which is ...
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... piece of the fish that has been broken into the salt water , with all the fingers of one hand , and sucks it into his mouth , so as to get with it as much of the salt water as possible : In the same manner he takes the rest by different ...
... piece of the fish that has been broken into the salt water , with all the fingers of one hand , and sucks it into his mouth , so as to get with it as much of the salt water as possible : In the same manner he takes the rest by different ...
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... piece of bamboo is tossed to him , of which he makes the necessary imple- ment by splitting it transversely with his nail . While all this has been doing , some of his attendants have been em- ployed in beating bread - fruit with a ...
... piece of bamboo is tossed to him , of which he makes the necessary imple- ment by splitting it transversely with his nail . While all this has been doing , some of his attendants have been em- ployed in beating bread - fruit with a ...
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afternoon anchor appeared ashore Banks and Dr Batavia Bay of Islands boat body Bolabola Botany Bay bread-fruit breeze called canoes Cape Cape Colville Cape Palliser Cape Saunders Cape Turnagain cloth coast cocoa-nut colour discovered distance Dr Solander earee east Endeavour River etoa fathom water fire fish five leagues four leagues half harbour head hills hogs houses Huaheine Indians inhabitants kind lance land in sight lies in latitude longitude Mercury Bay miles morning natives night noon northermost northward o'clock observed Otaha Otaheitans Otaheite piece pinnace plantains Poverty Bay reef resembling river rocks round sail sandy scarcely seemed seen Semau seven ship shoal shore side small islands soon south point southward steered tacked and stood thing three leagues tion told trees Tupia Ulietea westward whole wind women wood yawl
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Page 37 - But man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes and pompous in the grave, solemnizing nativities and deaths with equal lustre, nor omitting ceremonies of bravery in the infamy of his nature.
Page 255 - They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters ; these see the works of the Lord, and his wonders in the deep.
Page 235 - Though poor the peasant's hut, his feasts though small, He sees his little lot the lot of all; Sees no contiguous palace rear its head, To shame the meanness of his humble shed; No costly lord the sumptuous banquet deal, To make him loathe his vegetable meal...
Page 255 - They mount up to the heaven, they go down again to the depths ; their soul is melted because of trouble. They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wit's end.
Page 256 - In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider : God also hath set the one over against the other, to the end that man should find nothing after him.
Page 32 - Ordain'd to fire th' adoring sons of earth, With every charm of wisdom and of worth ; Ordain'd to light, with intellectual day, The mazy wheels of Nature as they play, Or, warm with Fancy's energy, to glow, And rival all but Shakspeare's name below.
Page 198 - A prospect more rude and craggy is rarely to be met with ; for inland appears nothing but the summits of mountains of a stupendous height, and consisting of rocks that are totally barren and naked, except where they are covered with snow.
Page 335 - By what means the inhabitants of this country are reduced to such a number as it can subsist, is not, perhaps, very easy to guess : whether, like the inhabitants of New Zealand, they are destroyed by the hands of each other in contests for food, whether they are swept off by accidental famine, or whether there is any cause that prevents the increase of the species, must be left for future adventurers to determine.
Page 208 - W. To the north-west of Red Point, and a little way inland, stand.sa round hill, the top of which looks like the crown of a hat. In the afternoon of this day, we had a light breeze at NNW till five in the evening, when it fell calm : At this time, we were between three and four leagues from the shore, and had forty-eight fathom water : The variation by azimuth was 8° 48
Page 5 - ... which he may do in about an hour, he will as completely fulfil his duty to his own and future generations, as the native of our less temperate climate can do by ploughing in the cold of winter, and reaping in the summer's heat, as often as these seasons return; even if, after he has procured bread for his present household, he should convert a surplus into money, and lay it up for his children.