A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, 13. köideRobert Kerr W. Blackwood, 1815 |
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... fish , to eat which is their chief luxury , and to catch it their princi- pal labour . As to the people , they are of the largest size of Euro- peans . The men are tall , strong , well - limbed , and finely shaped . The tallest that we ...
... fish , to eat which is their chief luxury , and to catch it their princi- pal labour . As to the people , they are of the largest size of Euro- peans . The men are tall , strong , well - limbed , and finely shaped . The tallest that we ...
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... fish . The smaller fish , when they catch any , are generally eaten raw , as we eat oysters ; and nothing that the sea produces comes amiss to them : They are fond of lobsters , crabs , and other shell - fish , which are found upon the ...
... fish . The smaller fish , when they catch any , are generally eaten raw , as we eat oysters ; and nothing that the sea produces comes amiss to them : They are fond of lobsters , crabs , and other shell - fish , which are found upon the ...
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... fish or flesh , is ready dressed , and wrapped up in leaves , and two cocoa - nut shells , one full of salt water , and the other of fresh : His attendants , which are not few , seat themselves round him , and when all is ready , he ...
... fish or flesh , is ready dressed , and wrapped up in leaves , and two cocoa - nut shells , one full of salt water , and the other of fresh : His attendants , which are not few , seat themselves round him , and when all is ready , he ...
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... fish , he begins with his plantains , one of which makes but a mouthful , though it be as big as a black - pudding ; if instead of plantains he has apples , he never tastes them till they have been pared ; to do this a shell is picked ...
... fish , he begins with his plantains , one of which makes but a mouthful , though it be as big as a black - pudding ; if instead of plantains he has apples , he never tastes them till they have been pared ; to do this a shell is picked ...
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... fish can escape . In every expedient , indeed , for taking fish , they are ex- ceedingly ingenious ; they make harpoons of cane , and point them with hard wood , which , in their hands , strike fish more effectually than those which are ...
... fish can escape . In every expedient , indeed , for taking fish , they are ex- ceedingly ingenious ; they make harpoons of cane , and point them with hard wood , which , in their hands , strike fish more effectually than those which are ...
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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.