Narrative and Successful Result of a Voyage in the South Seas,: Performed by Order of the Government of British India, to Ascertain the Actual Fate of La Pérouse's Expedition, Interspersed with Accounts of the Religion, Manners, Customs, and Cannibal Practices of the South Sea Islanders, Bind 2Hurst, Chance, and Company, 1829 |
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... effect , " and no one had infringed them . 66 ( Signed ) VAUJUAS . 66 " List of the persons massacred by the savages of the Island of Maouna , the " 11th December 1787 . " The Astrolabe . " M. de Langle , post - captain , com- " mander ...
... effect , " and no one had infringed them . 66 ( Signed ) VAUJUAS . 66 " List of the persons massacred by the savages of the Island of Maouna , the " 11th December 1787 . " The Astrolabe . " M. de Langle , post - captain , com- " mander ...
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... effects that may belong or have belonged to their expe- 66 ❝tion . " It farther decrees , that the King be " requested to equip one or more vessels , 66 on board which shall be embarked men " of science , naturalists , and draughts- σε ...
... effects that may belong or have belonged to their expe- 66 ❝tion . " It farther decrees , that the King be " requested to equip one or more vessels , 66 on board which shall be embarked men " of science , naturalists , and draughts- σε ...
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... effect : which left no doubt on the minds of the medical men of the expedition as to the arrow being poisoned . The native who so wantonly shot the arrow , was fired at from the boat and killed . Finding no traces of la Pérouse or his ...
... effect : which left no doubt on the minds of the medical men of the expedition as to the arrow being poisoned . The native who so wantonly shot the arrow , was fired at from the boat and killed . Finding no traces of la Pérouse or his ...
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... effects of the waves on a shipwrecked vessel , to judge whether these remains could still exist floating on the water at the end of Decem- ber 1791 . 66 66 poeple were acquainted with the use of " lxvi INTRODUCTION .
... effects of the waves on a shipwrecked vessel , to judge whether these remains could still exist floating on the water at the end of Decem- ber 1791 . 66 66 poeple were acquainted with the use of " lxvi INTRODUCTION .
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... effect . By this time the fury of the savages was some- what abated , and they began to listen atten- tively to our harangues and offers of reconci- liation . I reminded them that on the day the fourteen canoes were seized and taken ...
... effect . By this time the fury of the savages was some- what abated , and they began to listen atten- tively to our harangues and offers of reconci- liation . I reminded them that on the day the fourteen canoes were seized and taken ...
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anchored armed arrived ascertain Bay of Islands begged Bengal boats Boroo Botany Bay breezes cabin Calcutta called canoes Cape Cape Pillar Captain Dillon Captain Robson chief officer coast cocoa-nut command conduct course crew deck Diemen's Land Doctor Tytler duty Europeans expedition fathoms French friends frigates furled sails Government honour immediately informed inquired killed king la Pérouse lascar Latitude at noon letter long-boat longitude longitude by chronometer Lordship in Council Mannicolo Islands Marine Board Martin Bushart mataboole ment miles monsoon morning muskets natives night observed orders party passage passed Pérouse Pérouse's person PETER DILLON Port Jackson proceed proceeded procured received reef replied requested Rothuma sail savages second officer secretary sent shew ship's shore Shortly South Sea South Wales stood supposed thermometer tion Tonga Tucopia Van Diemen's Land vessel Vilear visited voyage Wangeroa weather whaler wind wreck Zealand
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Side 57 - Ye shall not round the corners of your heads, neither shalt thou mar the corners of thy beard. 28 Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks upon you : I am the LORD.
Side 317 - Under these circumstances we feel ourselves obliged to report, in our opinion, a few days more of such exposure as they have already undergone, would reduce the number of the crew, by sickness, to such an extent as to hazard the safety of the ship and the lives of all on board.
Side 47 - ... meeting each other underneath. He now carefully rolls it over, so that the edges overlapping each other, or rather intermingling, come uppermost. He next doubles in the two ends and rolls it carefully over again, endeavouring to reduce it to a narrower and firmer compass. He now brings it cautiously out of the fluid, taking firm hold of it by the two ends one in each hand (the back of...
Side 15 - Island), at which place they wanted to touch before they got to Tonga. Having remained at Hamoa two or three days, they sailed for Tonga, where they arrived with great speed : but, in the course of a few days, they all died, not as a punishment for having been at Bolotoo, but as a natural consequence ; the air of Bolotoo, as it were, infecting mortal bodies with speedy death.
Side 14 - Ignorant of the place where they were, and being much in want of provisions, —seeing the country abound in all sorts of fruit, the crew landed, and proceeded to pluck some bread-fruit, but, to their unspeakable astonishment, they could no more lay hold of it than if it were a shadow; they walked through the trunks of the trees, and passed through the substance of the houses, (which were built like those of Tonga), without feeling any resistance.
Side 16 - The souls of matabooles, that are still inferior, and have not the power, as the two first have, of coming back to Tonga to inspire the priests, though they are supposed to have the. power of appearing to their relatives. 4. The original attendants, or servants, as it were, of the gods, who, although they had their origin, and have ever since existed in Bolotoo, are still inferior to the third class. 5. The Flotooa Pow, or mischievous gods.
Side 49 - Sometimes the fibres of the fow are heard to crack with the increasing tension, yet the mass is seen whole and entire, becoming more thin as it becomes more twisted, while the infusion drains from it in a regularly decreasing quantity, till at length it denies a single drop.
Side 23 - Being accordingly come, Tongaloa straightway ordered them thus, ' Put your canoes to sea, and sail to the west, to the great land which is there, and take up your abode there. Be your skins white like your minds, for your minds are pure. You shall be wise, making axes and all riches whatsoever, and shall have large canoes. I will go myself, and command the wind to blow from your land to Tonga : but they (the Tonga people) shall not be able to go to you with their bad canoes.
Side 41 - When all things are taken into consideration regarding the connubial system of these people, their notions of chastity, and their habits in respect to it, we shall have no reason to say but what they keep tolerably well within those bounds which honour and decency dictate*; and if it be asked what effect this system has...
Side 79 - The animal is first stunned by a blow with a stick, and then killed by repeated blows on both sides of the neck. It is then rubbed over with the juicy substance of the banana tree, thrown for a few minutes on the fire, and, when warm, scraped with muscle shells or knives, and then washed.