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Side 79
The parties themselves were not sufficiently advanced in life to form any
judgment of their own ; yet we are assured that , on arriving at maturity , they
rarely objected to the engagements which their friends had made on their behalf .
Among the ...
The parties themselves were not sufficiently advanced in life to form any
judgment of their own ; yet we are assured that , on arriving at maturity , they
rarely objected to the engagements which their friends had made on their behalf .
Among the ...
Side 245
Between the period now under consideration and the arrival of the Duff , the
Tonga group appears to have been visited by La Perouse , who merely touched
on the coast ; by Captain Edwards of the Pandora , when in search of the
mutineers ...
Between the period now under consideration and the arrival of the Duff , the
Tonga group appears to have been visited by La Perouse , who merely touched
on the coast ; by Captain Edwards of the Pandora , when in search of the
mutineers ...
Side 265
... present habitation , nothing is known ; but the old men at Tonga , who pretend
not to give any account of the discovery of the islands , assert that their ancestors
were accustomed to visit them before the woolly race arrived from the west .
... present habitation , nothing is known ; but the old men at Tonga , who pretend
not to give any account of the discovery of the islands , assert that their ancestors
were accustomed to visit them before the woolly race arrived from the west .
Side 306
At length , after a delay of seventeen months , letters arrived announcing not only
their safe arrival , but also that a door had been previously opened for them , by
which they could at once enter upon their labours with every prospect of a happy
...
At length , after a delay of seventeen months , letters arrived announcing not only
their safe arrival , but also that a door had been previously opened for them , by
which they could at once enter upon their labours with every prospect of a happy
...
Side 341
On the 5th April 1770 , he arrived at Callao ; and , being anxious to obtain an
early interview with the viceroy , he put off from his vessel in a small boat and
perished in the surf . * The reports that had reached Europe respecting the soil
and ...
On the 5th April 1770 , he arrived at Callao ; and , being anxious to obtain an
early interview with the viceroy , he put off from his vessel in a small boat and
perished in the surf . * The reports that had reached Europe respecting the soil
and ...
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| Titel | Polynesia, Or, An Historical Account of the Principal Islands in the South Sea, Including New Zealand Bind 33 af Edinburgh cabinet library |
| Forfatter | Michael Russell |
| Udgave | 5 |
| Udgiver | Oliver & Boyd, 1842 |
| Oprindeligt fra | Harvard University |
| Digitaliseret | 14. mar 2008 |
| Længde | 440 sider |
| Eksporter henvisning | BiBTeX EndNote RefMan |