A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, 13. köideRobert Kerr W. Blackwood, 1815 |
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Robert Kerr. The produce of this island is bread - fruit , cocoa - nuts , ba- nanas of thirteen sorts , the best we had ever eaten ; plan- tains ; a fruit not unlike an apple , which , when ripe , is very pleasant ; sweet potatoes , yams ...
Robert Kerr. The produce of this island is bread - fruit , cocoa - nuts , ba- nanas of thirteen sorts , the best we had ever eaten ; plan- tains ; a fruit not unlike an apple , which , when ripe , is very pleasant ; sweet potatoes , yams ...
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Robert Kerr. The produce of this island is bread - fruit , cocoa - nuts , ba- nanas of thirteen sorts , the best we had ever eaten ; plan- tains ; a fruit not unlike an apple , which , when ripe , is very pleasant ; sweet potatoes , yams ...
Robert Kerr. The produce of this island is bread - fruit , cocoa - nuts , ba- nanas of thirteen sorts , the best we had ever eaten ; plan- tains ; a fruit not unlike an apple , which , when ripe , is very pleasant ; sweet potatoes , yams ...
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... cocoa - nut , in which some sweet herbs or flowers have been infused : As 4 In the opinion here expressed the Editor has already acquiesced . He would remark by the bye , that although two or more persons had been of the same family ...
... cocoa - nut , in which some sweet herbs or flowers have been infused : As 4 In the opinion here expressed the Editor has already acquiesced . He would remark by the bye , that although two or more persons had been of the same family ...
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... cocoa - nut leaves , which they make occasionally in a few minutes . This , however , is not all their head - dress ; the women sometimes wear little tur- bans , and sometimes a dress which they value much more , and which , indeed ...
... cocoa - nut leaves , which they make occasionally in a few minutes . This , however , is not all their head - dress ; the women sometimes wear little tur- bans , and sometimes a dress which they value much more , and which , indeed ...
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... cocoa - nut strings , woven upon one thread , which is tied under their hair , so that these artificial honours of their head may hang down behind . Their personal ornaments , besides flowers , are few ; both sexes wear ear - rings ...
... cocoa - nut strings , woven upon one thread , which is tied under their hair , so that these artificial honours of their head may hang down behind . Their personal ornaments , besides flowers , are few ; both sexes wear ear - rings ...
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a-head afternoon anchor appeared ashore Banks and Dr Batavia beach boat Bolabola Botany Bay bottom bread-fruit breeze called canoes Cape Cape Conway Cape Grafton Cape Palliser Cape Saunders Cape Turnagain cloth coast cocoa-nut colour depth of water discovered distance Dr Solander east Endeavour River fathom water fire fish five leagues four leagues fresh half harbour hauled head hills houses Indians inhabitants kind lances land in sight lies in latitude Lizard Island longitude miles morning natives night noon northward o'clock observed Otaheitans Otaheite pinnace plantains Poverty Bay reef resembling river rocks round sail sandy scarcely seemed seen Semau sent seven ship shoals shore side sight bore small islands soon sound south point southward steered tacked and stood three leagues tide tion trees Tupia westward 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.