 | William Fordyce Mavor - Discoveries in geography - 1802 - 376 pages
...the same sorts of fish are found here as at the other isles. Their fishing instruments are the same. Nothing can be a more demonstrative evidence of their...of neatness and workmanship, exceed every thing of the kind they saw in this sea. They are built of several pieces sewed together with bandage, in so... | |
 | Robert Kerr - Voyages and travels - 1815 - 542 pages
...This last inhabits the Marquesas, Society " Isles, more prongs, and nets made of a very fine thread, with the meshes wrought exactly like ours. But nothing...They are built of several pieces sewed together with bandage, in so neat a manner, that on the outside it is difficult to see the joints. All the fastenings... | |
 | General history - 1815 - 802 pages
...inhabits the Marquesas, Society Isles, more prongs, and nets made of a very fine thread, with th« meshes wrought exactly like ours. But nothing can...They are built of several pieces sewed together with bandage, in so neat a manner, that on the outside it is difficult to see the joints. All the fastenings... | |
 | Robert Kerr - 1815 - 546 pages
...This last inhabits the Marquesas, Society Isles, more prongs, and nets made of a very fine thread, with the meshes wrought exactly like ours. But nothing...every thing of this kind we saw in this sea. They are bnilt of several pieces sewed together with bandage, in so neat a manner, that on the outside it is... | |
 | James Cook - Oceania - 1842 - 636 pages
...made of mother-of.pearl, gigs with two, three, or more prongs, and nets made of a very fine thread, with the meshes wrought exactly like ours. But nothing...more demonstrative evidence of their ingenuity than time construction and make of their canoes, which, in point of neatness and workmanship, exceed everything... | |
 | Sarah S. Farmer - Missions - 1855 - 538 pages
...D'Entrecasteaux and his party * " In point of neatness and workmanship their canoes exceed everything of this kind we saw in this sea. They are built of several pieces sewed together with bandage in so neat a manner, that on the outside it is difficult to see the joints. All the fastenCOOK8... | |
 | James Cook - Explorers - 1880 - 538 pages
...and make of their canoes, in point of neatness and workmanship, exceed everything of the kind seen in this sea. They are built of several pieces sewed together with bandage in so neat a manner that on the outside it is difficult to see the joints. All the fastenings... | |
 | 1882 - 94 pages
...and make of their canoes, in point of neatness and workmanship, exceed everything of the kind seen in this sea. They are built of several pieces sewed together with bandage in so neat a manner that on the outside it is difficult to see the joints. All the fastenings... | |
 | James Cook - 1882 - 588 pages
...and make of their canoes, in point of neatness and workmanship, exceed everything of the kind seen in this sea. They are built of several pieces sewed together with bandage in so neat a manner that on the outside it is difficult to see the joints. All the fastenings... | |
 | James George Frazer - Ancestor worship - 1922 - 470 pages
...their implements, weapons, and dress." 2 They are bold navigators, 8 and Captain Cook observes that " nothing can be a more demonstrative evidence of their...which, in point of neatness and workmanship, exceed everything of this kind we saw in this sea." 4 However, the Tongans appear to have acquired much of... | |
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with the meshes wrought exactly like ours. But nothing can be a more demonstrative evidence of their ingenuity than the construction and make of their canoes, which, in point of neatness and workmanship, exceed every thing of this kind we saw in this... 
