A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 13Robert Kerr W. Blackwood, 1815 - Voyages and travels |
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... thought this strange singularity arose from some superstitious opinion ; but they constantly affirmed the contrary . We observed also some caprices in the custom , for which we could as little account as for the custom sit- self . We ...
... thought this strange singularity arose from some superstitious opinion ; but they constantly affirmed the contrary . We observed also some caprices in the custom , for which we could as little account as for the custom sit- self . We ...
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... easily reared , one will not find cause for cen- suring the impolicy , whatever is thought of the immodesty , according to our It cannot be supposed that , among these people , CHAP . IV . SECT . XVII . Lieutenant James Cook .
... easily reared , one will not find cause for cen- suring the impolicy , whatever is thought of the immodesty , according to our It cannot be supposed that , among these people , CHAP . IV . SECT . XVII . Lieutenant James Cook .
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... thought disgraceful , for the higher orders to engage in domestic con- cerns and useful manufactures , " nor is it the least disparagement for a chief to be found in the midst of his workmen labouring with his own hands ; but it would ...
... thought disgraceful , for the higher orders to engage in domestic con- cerns and useful manufactures , " nor is it the least disparagement for a chief to be found in the midst of his workmen labouring with his own hands ; but it would ...
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... thought no easy task ; but the great difficulty is to join them toge- ther . When all the parts are prepared , the keel is laid upon blocks , and the planks being supported by stanchions , are sewed or clamped together with strong ...
... thought no easy task ; but the great difficulty is to join them toge- ther . When all the parts are prepared , the keel is laid upon blocks , and the planks being supported by stanchions , are sewed or clamped together with strong ...
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... thought im- proper to be continually calling off the attention of the reader , from the text , to smaller notes at the individual instances . - E . for them separately , and have frequently told us the 9 44 PART III . BOOK I. Modern ...
... thought im- proper to be continually calling off the attention of the reader , from the text , to smaller notes at the individual instances . - E . for them separately , and have frequently told us the 9 44 PART III . BOOK I. Modern ...
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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.