 | Sir John Barrow - 1831 - 392 sider
...the most curious manner, I do not in the least wonder at their taking us for natives. I was tattooed, not to gratify my own desire, but theirs ; for it...are so numerous. The more a man or woman there is tattooed, the more they are respected ; and a person having none of these marks is looked upon as bearing... | |
 | Sir John Barrow - 1831 - 400 sider
...the most curious manner, I do not in the least wonder at their taking us for natives. I was tattooed, not to gratify my own desire, but theirs ; for it...agreeable to them, though painful in the process, provided 144 THE OPEN-BOAT NAVIGATION. [Chap. IV. I gained by it their friendship and esteem, which you may... | |
 | Sir John Barrow - 1832 - 320 sider
...the most curious manner, l do not in the least wonder at their taking us for natives. I was tattooed, not to gratify my own desire, but theirs ; for it...are so numerous. The more a man or woman there is tattooed, the more they are respected ; and a person having none of these marks is looked upon as bearing... | |
 | Edward Tagart - 1832 - 360 sider
...in the most curious manner, I do not wonder at their taking us for natives. I was tattooed, not at my own desire, but theirs ; for it was my constant...their friendship and esteem, which you may suppose no inconsiderable object in an island where the natives are so numerous. The more a man or woman there... | |
 | Lady Diana Jolliffe Belcher - 1871 - 390 sider
...the most curious manner, I do not in the least wonder at their taking us for natives. I was tattooed, not to gratify my own desire, but theirs ; for it was my constant endeavor to acquiesce in any little custom which I thought would be agreeable to them (though painful... | |
 | Sir John Barrow - 1876 - 422 sider
...the most curious manner, I do not in the least wonder at their taking us for natives. I was tattooed, not to gratify my own desire, but theirs ; for it...are so numerous. The more a man or woman there is tattooed, the more they are respected ; and a person having none of these marks is looked upon as bearing... | |
 | sir John Barrow (bart.) - 1883 - 432 sider
...the most curious manner, I do not in the least wonder at their taking us for natives. I was tattooed, not to gratify my own desire, but theirs ; for it...are so numerous. The more a man or woman there is tattooed, the more they are respected ; and a person having none of these marks is looked upon as bearing... | |
 | Greg Dening - 1992 - 468 sider
...constant endeavour to acquiesce in any little custom which I thought wou'd be agreeable to them, tho' painful in the process, provided I gained by it their friendship and esteem.' The youngest of the Bounty crew, a boy of fifteen years, Thomas Ellison, simply had a date on his right... | |
 | Greg Dening - 1994 - 470 sider
...Batavia after his capture: 'I was tattooed, not to gratify my own desire, but theirs [the Tahitians], for it was my constant endeavour to acquiesce in any little custom which I thought wou'd be agreeable to them, tho' painful in the process, provided I gained by it their friendship and... | |
 | Kathleen Wilson - 2003 - 312 sider
...Oceanic sexual excess."8 As Peter Heywood, mutineer of the infamous Bounty, explained: "I was tattooed, not to gratify my own desire, but theirs; for it was...to acquiesce in any little custom which I thought agreeable to them . . . provided I gained by it their friendship and esteem.""9 The intimation of same-sex... | |
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I was tattooed, not to gratify my own desire, but theirs ; for it was my constant endeavour to acquiesce in any little custom which I thought would be agreeable to them, though painful in the process, provided I gained by it their friendship and esteem,... 
