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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Side xv
... give his journals publicity . Though this condition does not appear to have been fulfilled for several years after , this second act of ge- nerosity towards an enemy deserves to be recorded in honour of the subject of this narrative ...
... give his journals publicity . Though this condition does not appear to have been fulfilled for several years after , this second act of ge- nerosity towards an enemy deserves to be recorded in honour of the subject of this narrative ...
Side xxxii
... give up the design he had before " entertained , of bartering for a little pro- " vision , and he gave orders to reimbark immediately ; but previously ( and this , " I believe , was the first cause of our mis- fortune ) he made presents ...
... give up the design he had before " entertained , of bartering for a little pro- " vision , and he gave orders to reimbark immediately ; but previously ( and this , " I believe , was the first cause of our mis- fortune ) he made presents ...
Side xl
... give orders of too " little efficacy . 66 " I should not do justice to those , who 66 were so fortunate as to save themselves like me , did I neglect to add , that they behaved with all the coolness and bravery possible . Messrs ...
... give orders of too " little efficacy . 66 " I should not do justice to those , who 66 were so fortunate as to save themselves like me , did I neglect to add , that they behaved with all the coolness and bravery possible . Messrs ...
Side xliii
... give a description of that beautiful is- land ; from whence they proceeded towards Botany Bay , where they anchored on the 26th January 1788. There they found the British squadron under command of Go- vernor Phillip , which had sailed ...
... give a description of that beautiful is- land ; from whence they proceeded towards Botany Bay , where they anchored on the 26th January 1788. There they found the British squadron under command of Go- vernor Phillip , which had sailed ...
Side xliv
... February 9th 1791 . " The National Assembly , after having heard the report of its united commit- " tees of agriculture , commerce , and " naval affairs , decrees : 66 " That the King be requested to give " xliv INTRODUCTION .
... February 9th 1791 . " The National Assembly , after having heard the report of its united commit- " tees of agriculture , commerce , and " naval affairs , decrees : 66 " That the King be requested to give " xliv INTRODUCTION .
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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.