Pacific islands; his only dress was a piece of cloth round his loins, and a straw hat ornamented with the black feathers of the domestic fowl. "With a great share of good humour... The Home of the Mutineers - Side 170af Thomas Boyles Murray - 1854 - 342 siderFuld visning - Om denne bog
| William Chambers - 1860 - 202 sider
...handsome youth, fully six feet high, with black hair, and an open interesting English countenance. As he wore no clothes except a piece of cloth round his loins, and a straw hat ornamented with blackcocks' feathers, his fine figure and well-shaped muscular limbs were displayed to great advantage,... | |
| Robert Michael Ballantyne - 1863 - 452 sider
...described as being a fine tall youth full six feet high, with dark hair and an open pleasing countenance. He wore no clothes except a piece of cloth round his...a straw hat ornamented with black cock's feathers, so that his fine figure and muscular limbs were shown to great advantage. Captain Pipon who wrote an... | |
| Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1869 - 276 sider
...handsome youth, fully six feet high, with black hair, and an open, interesting English countenance. As he wore no clothes, except a piece of cloth round his loins, and a straw-hat ornamented with black-cock's feathers, his fine figure and well-shaped muscular limbs were... | |
| William Chambers, Robert Chambers - 1869 - 530 sider
...handsome youth, fully six feet high, with black hair, and an open, interesting English countenance. As he wore no clothes, except a piece of cloth round his loins, and a straw-hat ornamented with black-cock's feathers, his fine figure and well-shaped muscular limbs were... | |
| 1869 - 506 sider
...free from all that mixture of a reddish tint which prevails on the Pacific Islands. His only dress was a piece of cloth round his loins, and a straw hat, ornamented with the black feathers of the domestic fowl. " With a share of good humour," says Capt. Pipón, " we were... | |
| World - 1872 - 174 sider
...his father, and one of the Tahitian women his mother. He was tall, dark-skinned, good-looking, and wore no clothes, except a piece of cloth round his loins, and a straw hat stuck with feathers. The English captains looked at him with astonishment, and at first could scarcely... | |
| Edward Everett Hale - 1880 - 334 sider
...from all that mixture of a reddish tint which prevails on the Pacific islands ; his only dress was a piece of cloth round his loins, and a straw hat ornamented with the black feathers of the domestic fowl. " With a great share of good-humor," says Capt. Pipon, " we... | |
| William Bligh - 1885 - 158 sider
...handsome youth, fully six feet high, with black hair, and an open, interesting English countenance. As he wore no clothes, except a piece of cloth round his loins, and a straw-hat ornamented with blackcock's feathers, his fine figure and well-shaped muscular limbs were... | |
| 1881 - 586 sider
...brownish cast, but free from that reddish tint that prevails on the Pacific Islands. His only dress was a piece of cloth round his loins, and a straw hat ornamented with the black feathers of the domestic fowl. He and his island comrades expressed great surprise on seeing... | |
| Joseph Lewis French - 1921 - 364 sider
...handsome youth, fully six feet high, with black hair, and an open interesting English countenance. As he wore no clothes, except a piece of cloth round his loins, and a straw-hat ornamented with black cock's feathers, his fine figure and well-shaped muscular limbs were... | |
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