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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... give a particular description of would fill up a large volume . In this island are also many sorts of beasts , both wild and tame ; as horses , bulls and cows , buffaloes , goats , wild hogs , deer , monkies , guanos , lizards , fnakes ...
... give a particular description of would fill up a large volume . In this island are also many sorts of beasts , both wild and tame ; as horses , bulls and cows , buffaloes , goats , wild hogs , deer , monkies , guanos , lizards , fnakes ...
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... give or receive presents from him . Even the Sultan's and general's wives , who are always coopt up , will yet look out of their cages when a stranger paffeth by , and demand of C 2 him him if he wants a pagally : and to invite ...
... give or receive presents from him . Even the Sultan's and general's wives , who are always coopt up , will yet look out of their cages when a stranger paffeth by , and demand of C 2 him him if he wants a pagally : and to invite ...
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... give him his price ; and if afterwards he hath oc- cafion for the fame thing , he must have it if he fends for it . He is but a little man , between fifty or fixty years old , and by relation very good - natured , but over - ruled by ...
... give him his price ; and if afterwards he hath oc- cafion for the fame thing , he must have it if he fends for it . He is but a little man , between fifty or fixty years old , and by relation very good - natured , but over - ruled by ...
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... give no affront to the natives ; who he said , were very revengeful . That their customs being different from ours , he feared that Captain Swan's men might fome time or other offend them , though ignorantly ; that therefore he gave him ...
... give no affront to the natives ; who he said , were very revengeful . That their customs being different from ours , he feared that Captain Swan's men might fome time or other offend them , though ignorantly ; that therefore he gave him ...
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... give notice of any danger or the like from fea , and it is probable they had feen our fhip the day before . This is an unfrequented coaft , and it is rare to have any fhip feen there . We touched not at Panay , nor any where else ...
... give notice of any danger or the like from fea , and it is probable they had feen our fhip the day before . This is an unfrequented coaft , and it is rare to have any fhip feen there . We touched not at Panay , nor any where else ...
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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...