| Ralph Delahaye Paine - 1921 - 470 sider
...quarterdeck, and Bligh wrote, after the event: The women of Tahiti are handsome, mild, and cheerful in manners and conversation, possessed of great sensibility,...made them promises of large possessions. Under these circumstances it ought hardly to be the subject of surprise that a set of sailors, most of them without... | |
| Frederick Harcourt Kitchin - 1926 - 350 sider
...fashion, tells us all about it. " The women of Otaheite," he writes, " are handsome, mild, and cheerful in their manners and conversation, possessed of great...their stay among them than otherwise, and even made promises of large possessions. Under these, and many other attendant circumstances, equally desirable,... | |
| Greg Dening - 1992 - 468 sider
...connections has most likely been the leading cause of the whole business. 'The Women are handsome — mild in their Manners and conversation — possessed of...delicacy to make them admired and beloved — The Chiefs have taken such a liking to our People that they have rather encouraged their stay among them than... | |
| Ian Littlewood - 2008 - 262 sider
...connections' are at the heart of the story, as Bligh readily concedes: "The Women are handsome - mild in their Manners and conversation - possessed of great...sufficient delicacy to make them admired and beloved ..." To the wretched mutineers, faced with the hardships of life on an eighteenth-century naval vessel,... | |
| Michael Shermer - 2005 - 348 sider
...they could easily form bonds and attachments with the women in Tahiti. The Women are handsome — mild in their Manners and conversation — possessed of...delicacy to make them admired and beloved — The chiefs have taken such a liking to our People that they have rather encouraged their stay among them than... | |
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