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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... miles long , by the fides of the rivers . Of thefe trees fago is made , which the poor country people eat inftead of bread three or four months in the year . This tree for its body and fhape is much like the pal- meto tree or the ...
... miles long , by the fides of the rivers . Of thefe trees fago is made , which the poor country people eat inftead of bread three or four months in the year . This tree for its body and fhape is much like the pal- meto tree or the ...
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... miles wide at the mouth , but farther in it is three leagues wide , and feven fathoms deep , running north - north - weft . There is a good depth of water about four or five leagues in , but rocky foul ground for about two leagues in ...
... miles wide at the mouth , but farther in it is three leagues wide , and feven fathoms deep , running north - north - weft . There is a good depth of water about four or five leagues in , but rocky foul ground for about two leagues in ...
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... miles from the fhore , and three or four miles from a small island that lay without us to the fouthward . We fired feven or nine guns , I remember not well which , and were answered again with three from the shore , for which we gave ...
... miles from the fhore , and three or four miles from a small island that lay without us to the fouthward . We fired feven or nine guns , I remember not well which , and were answered again with three from the shore , for which we gave ...
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... miles to the weftward , without the fmall Batt Island . Here we found the tide of flood setting to the fouthward ... mile from the fhore . Mindora is a large island , the middle of it lying in latitude thirteen degrees , about forty ...
... miles to the weftward , without the fmall Batt Island . Here we found the tide of flood setting to the fouthward ... mile from the fhore . Mindora is a large island , the middle of it lying in latitude thirteen degrees , about forty ...
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... mile of us . It was the 13th day of March before we came in fight of Pulo Condore , or the island Condore , as Pulo fignifies . The 14th day about noon we anchored on the north fide of the island , against a fandy bay , two miles from ...
... mile of us . It was the 13th day of March before we came in fight of Pulo Condore , or the island Condore , as Pulo fignifies . The 14th day about noon we anchored on the north fide of the island , against a fandy bay , two miles from ...
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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...