A General Collection of the Best and Most Interesting Voyages and Travels in All Parts of the World, Band 11Longman, 1812 - 17 Seiten |
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... Some- times the English merchants of Fort St. George fend their fhips hither as it were by ftealth , under the charge of Portuguese pilots and mariners ; for as yet we cannot get the Spaniards there to a commerce with us or the Dutch ...
... Some- times the English merchants of Fort St. George fend their fhips hither as it were by ftealth , under the charge of Portuguese pilots and mariners ; for as yet we cannot get the Spaniards there to a commerce with us or the Dutch ...
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... Some of the poorer people that keep ducks or hens , have a fence made round the posts of their houses , with a door to go in and out ; and this under room serves for no other ufe . Some use this place for the common draught of their ...
... Some of the poorer people that keep ducks or hens , have a fence made round the posts of their houses , with a door to go in and out ; and this under room serves for no other ufe . Some use this place for the common draught of their ...
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... some time in feasting before they take their repofe . Thus they do every day for a whole month at leaft ; for fometimes it is two or three days longer before before the Ramdam ends for it begins at the new 18 DAMPIER'S ACCOUNT OF THE ...
... some time in feasting before they take their repofe . Thus they do every day for a whole month at leaft ; for fometimes it is two or three days longer before before the Ramdam ends for it begins at the new 18 DAMPIER'S ACCOUNT OF THE ...
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... Some of our men also had houses , which they hired or bought , for houses are very cheap , for five or fix dollars . For many of them having more money then they knew what to do with , eafed themselves here of the trouble of telling it ...
... Some of our men also had houses , which they hired or bought , for houses are very cheap , for five or fix dollars . For many of them having more money then they knew what to do with , eafed themselves here of the trouble of telling it ...
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John Pinkerton. his hn his et al d d their faces . Some of their poisons are flow and lingering , for we had fome now aboard who were poisoned there , but died not till some months after . - ---- - - - - CHAP . IV . They depart from the ...
John Pinkerton. his hn his et al d d their faces . Some of their poisons are flow and lingering , for we had fome now aboard who were poisoned there , but died not till some months after . - ---- - - - - CHAP . IV . They depart from the ...
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Seite 65 - The two fore-teeth of their upper jaw are wanting in all of them, men and women, old and young, whether they draw them out, I know not; neither have they any beards.
Seite 64 - They are tall, straight-bodied, and thin, with small, long limbs. They have great heads, round foreheads, and great brows. Their eyelids are always half closed, to keep the flies out of their eyes, they being...
Seite 494 - ... that a fire was kindled about a quarter of a mile farther on the way. Mr. Banks then endeavoured to wake Dr.
Seite 629 - They observed many trees and plants common at New Zealand; and, in particular, the flax plant, which is rather more luxuriant here than in any part of that country...
Seite 659 - I learned from Omai, was, that they were all, both old and young, to look upon me as a friend, who intended to remain with them a few days; that during my stay they must not steal...
Seite 642 - Kahoora folded his arms, hung down his head, and looked like one caught in a trap ; and I firmly believe he expected instant death.
Seite 634 - In the afternoon, we were agreeably surprised, at the place where we were cutting wood, with a visit from some of the natives ; eight men and a boy. They approached us from the woods, without betraying any marks of fear, or rather with the greatest confidence imaginable ; for none of them had any weapons, except one, who held in his hand a stick about two feet long, and pointed at one end. They were quite naked, and wore no ornaments...
Seite 596 - A party who had been sent out in the morning to view the country now returned. They had not proceeded far before a middle-aged man, punctured from head to foot, and his face painted with a sort of white pigment, appeared with a spear in his hand, and walked alongside of them, making signs to his countrymen to keep at a distance, and not to molest them.
Seite 595 - ... that many of them swam off to meet the boats. Not one of them had so much as a stick or weapon of any sort in their hands.
Seite 582 - Great injustice has been done to the women of Otaheite, and the Society Isles, by those who have represented them, without exception, as ready to grant the last .favour to any man who will come up to their price. But this is by no means the case : the favours of married women, and also the unmarried of the better sort, are as difficult to be obtained here, as in any other country whatever. Neither can the charge be understood indiscriminately of the unmarried of the lower class, for many of these...