A General History of Voyages and Travels to the End of the 18th Century, Band 13J. Ballantyne & Company, 1815 |
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... and Manners of the Inhabitants , • : XXI . The Passage from Oteroah to New Zea- land ; Incidents which happened in going ashore there , and while the Ship lay in Poverty Bay , 29 4.4 73 99 1 Page . SECT . XXII . A Description of Poverty.
... and Manners of the Inhabitants , • : XXI . The Passage from Oteroah to New Zea- land ; Incidents which happened in going ashore there , and while the Ship lay in Poverty Bay , 29 4.4 73 99 1 Page . SECT . XXII . A Description of Poverty.
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... ashore : A Description of several Views exhibited by the Country , and of the Hippahs , or fortified Villages of the Inhabitants , · 112 134 XXIV . The Range from Mercury Bay to the Bay of Islands : An Expedition up the River Thames ...
... ashore : A Description of several Views exhibited by the Country , and of the Hippahs , or fortified Villages of the Inhabitants , · 112 134 XXIV . The Range from Mercury Bay to the Bay of Islands : An Expedition up the River Thames ...
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... ashore , accompanied by Mr Banks , Dr Solander , Mr Monk- house , Tupia , King Cookee , and some other of the natives who fertile , and to abound especially with cocoa - nuts . There are not many habitations to be seen on it . The ...
... ashore , accompanied by Mr Banks , Dr Solander , Mr Monk- house , Tupia , King Cookee , and some other of the natives who fertile , and to abound especially with cocoa - nuts . There are not many habitations to be seen on it . The ...
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... ashore there in 1791. It is of a rude , barren appear- ance , especially on the eastern side , and is easily known by its lofty dou ble - peaked mountain . The warriors of Bolabola are differently punctured from all the other people in ...
... ashore there in 1791. It is of a rude , barren appear- ance , especially on the eastern side , and is easily known by its lofty dou ble - peaked mountain . The warriors of Bolabola are differently punctured from all the other people in ...
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... ashore on the other side of the island , I intended to put , in order to stop a leak which we had sprung in the powder - room , and to take in more ballast , as I found the ship too light to carry sail upon a wind . As the wind was ...
... ashore on the other side of the island , I intended to put , in order to stop a leak which we had sprung in the powder - room , and to take in more ballast , as I found the ship too light to carry sail upon a wind . As the wind was ...
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a-head afternoon anchor appeared ashore Banks and Dr Batavia beach boat Botany Bay bottom Bougainville breeze called canoes Cape Cape Conway Cape Grafton Cape Palliser Cape Saunders cloth coast cocoa-nut colour depth of water discovered distance Dr Solander Dutch east Endeavour River fathom water feet fire fish five leagues four leagues fresh half harbour hauled head hills houses Indians inhabitants kind lances land in sight lies in latitude Lizard Island longitude miles morning natives night noon northward o'clock observation Otaheitans Otaheite pinnace plantains Poverty Bay reef resembling river rocks round sail sandy scarcely seemed seen Semau sent seven ship shoals shore side sight bore small islands soon sound south point southward steered tacked and stood three leagues tide tion trees Tupia turtle voyage weather westward wind women wood yawl
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Seite 271 - 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.
Seite 271 - Then they cry unto the Lord in their trouble, and he bringeth them out of their distresses. He maketh the storm a calm, so that the waves thereof are still. Then are they glad because they be quiet ; so he bringeth them unto their desired haven.
Seite 25 - And oft, beneath the odorous shade Of Chili's boundless forests laid, She deigns to hear the savage youth repeat, In loose numbers wildly sweet, Their feather-cinctured chiefs, and dusky loves. Her track, where'er the goddess roves, Glory pursue, and generous Shame, The unconquerable Mind, and freedom's holy flame. II. 3. Woods, that wave o'er Delphi's steep, Isles, that crown th...
Seite 271 - 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.
Seite 50 - 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.
Seite 53 - It is the heaviest stone that melancholy can throw at a man, to tell him he is at the end of his nature ; or that there is no further state to come, unto which this seems progrcssional, and otherwise made in vain...
Seite 15 - ... a tree: the tree which produces it does not indeed shoot up spontaneously ; but if a man plants ten of them in his lifetime, which he may do in about an hour, he will as completely fulfil his duty to his own and future generations as the natives 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...
Seite 354 - 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...
Seite 348 - To produce it they take two pieces of dry soft wood, one is a stick about eight or nine inches long, the other piece is flat: The stick they shape into an obtuse point at one end, and pressing it upon the other, turn it nimbly by holding it between both their hands as we do a chocolate mill, often shifting their hands up, and then moving them down upon it, to increase the pressure as much as possible. By this method they get fire in less than two minutes, and from the smallest spark they increase...
Seite 420 - At this time the number of sick on board amounted to forty, and the rest of the ship's company were in a very feeble condition. Every individual had been sick except the sailmaker, an old man between seventy and eighty years of age, and it is very remarkable that this old man, during our stay at this place, was constantly drunk every day: we had buried seven, the surgeon, three seamen, Mr.