A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 13Robert Kerr W. Blackwood, 1815 - Voyages and travels |
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... perhaps , is less capable of defence- admitting , however , for a moment , that pre - eminence of station and office entitles the holder to singularity of inclination and conduct , as it is certain- ly allowed to do in the case of some ...
... perhaps , is less capable of defence- admitting , however , for a moment , that pre - eminence of station and office entitles the holder to singularity of inclination and conduct , as it is certain- ly allowed to do in the case of some ...
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... perhaps the rank of the party . The women are generally marked with this stain , in the form of a Z , on every joint of their fingers and toes , and frequently round the outside of their feet : The men are also marked with the same fi ...
... perhaps the rank of the party . The women are generally marked with this stain , in the form of a Z , on every joint of their fingers and toes , and frequently round the outside of their feet : The men are also marked with the same fi ...
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... perhaps it was at first introduced as a defence against the venomous insects , so common in tro- pical climates , or possibly they considered the brilliancy of the colour as highly ornamental . " These Charaibes had other ways of ...
... perhaps it was at first introduced as a defence against the venomous insects , so common in tro- pical climates , or possibly they considered the brilliancy of the colour as highly ornamental . " These Charaibes had other ways of ...
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... 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 tribes or fa- milies to which they belong , are obliged to be more ...
... 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 tribes or fa- milies to which they belong , are obliged to be more ...
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... perhaps of 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 ...
... perhaps of 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 ...
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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.