 | Edmund Burke - 1774 - 606 sider
...able to do it before we left the ifiand, and fome that could fcarcely crack a filbert : the matter, when he chufes to drink, takes the cocoa-nut thus...of which makes but a mouthful, though it be as big a» a black-pudding ; if inftead of plantains he has apples, he never tailes them till they have been... | |
 | 1803 - 598 sider
...before we left the island, and some that could scarcely crack a filbert : the master, when he chuses to drink, takes the cocoa-nut thus prepared, and boring a hole through the shell with his finger, or breaking it with a stone, he sucks out the liquor. When he has eaten his... | |
 | William Fordyce Mavor - 1809 - 448 sider
...before we left the island, ao.l some that could scarcely crack a filbert : the master, when he chuses to drink, takes the cocoa-nut thus prepared, and boring a hole through the shell with his finger, or breakmg it with a stone, he sucks out the liquor. When he has eaten his bread.fruit... | |
 | General history - 1814 - 798 sider
...before we left the island, and some that could scarcely crack a filbert : The master, when lie chuses to drink, takes the cocoa-nut thus prepared, and boring a hole through the shell with his finger, or breaking it with a stone, he sucks out the liquor. When he has eaten his... | |
 | Robert Kerr - 1815 - 550 sider
...before we left the island, and some that could scarcely crack a filbert : The master, when he chuses to drink, takes the cocoa-nut thus prepared, and boring a; hole through the shell with his finger, or breaking1 it with a stone, he sucks out the liquor. When he has eaten his... | |
 | Robert Kerr - 1815 - 534 sider
...before we left the island, and some that could scarcely crack a filbert : The master, when he chuses to drink, takes the cocoa-nut thus prepared, and boring a hole through the shell with his finger, or breaking it with a stone, he sucks out the liquor. When he has eaten his... | |
 | Robert Kerr - 1824 - 528 sider
...before we left the island, and some that could scarcely crack a filbert : The master, when he chuses to drink, takes the cocoa-nut thus prepared, and boring a hole through the shell with his finger, or breaking it with a stone, he sucks out the liquor. When he has eaten his... | |
 | Sir John Barrow - 1831 - 400 sider
...before we left the island, and some that could scarcely crack a filbert. The master when he chooses to drink takes the cocoa-nut thus prepared, and boring a hole through the shell with his fingers, or breaking it with a stone, he sucks out the liquor. When he has eaten his... | |
 | Sir John Barrow - 1832 - 320 sider
...before we left the island, and some that could scarcely crack a filbert. The master when he chooses to drink takes the cocoanut thus prepared, and boring a hole through the shell with his fingers, or breaking it with a stone, he sucks out the liquor. When he has eaten his... | |
 | James Cook - 1842 - 636 sider
...before we left the island, and some that could scarcely crack a filbert : the master, when he chooses to drink, takes the cocoa-nut thus prepared, and boring a hole through the shell with his finger, or breaking it with a stone, he sucks out the liquor. When he has eaten his... | |
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... or breaking it with a stone, he sucks out the liquor. When he has eaten his bread-fruit and fish, he begins with his plantains, one of which makes but a mouthful, though it be as big as a black-pudding ; if... 
