 | Thomas Robert Malthus - 1809 - 576 pages
...asked in captain Cook's First Voyage, with respect to the thinly scattered savages of New Holland, " By what means the inhabitants of " this country are reduced to such a number as " it can subsist?" ' May be asked with equal pro1 Cook's First Voyage, vol. iii. p. 240. 4to. priety respecting the most... | |
 | Thomas Robert Malthus - 1809 - 576 pages
...asked in captain Cook's First Voyage, with respect to the thinly scattered savages of New Holland, " By what means the inhabitants of " this country are reduced to such a number as " it can subsist?"1 May be asked with equal pro1 Cook's First Voyage> vol. iii. p. 240. 4to. the Islands of... | |
 | Thomas Robert Malthus - 1826 - 566 pages
...country, from its desolate state, to support many more, observes, " By what means the inha" bitants of this country are reduced to such a " number as...accidental famine; or whether " there is any cause that prevents the increase of " the species, must be left for future adventurers " to determine."*... | |
 | J. C. Ross - 1827 - 486 pages
...asked in Captain Cook's first voyage, with respect to the thinly scattered savages of New Holland — " By what means the inhabitants of this country are reduced to such a number as it can possibly subsist, may be asked with equal propriety respecting the most populous islands, or the best... | |
 | James Cook - 1842 - 636 pages
...the tree is felled and fashioned, we had no opportunity to learn. The only tools that we saw among them are an adze, wretchedly made of stone, some small...famine, or whether there is any cause which prevents tho increase of the species, must be left for future adventurers to determine. That they have wars,... | |
 | James Cook - 1842 - 636 pages
...turtle, we found one of the little paddles which had belonged to such a boat, and would have been usehess on board any other. By what means the inhabitants...by accidental famine, or whether there is any cause wimich prevents the increase of the species, must be left for future adventurers to determine. That... | |
 | William Alexander Mackinnon - 1846 - 424 pages
...the apparent inability of the country, from its desolate state, to support many more, observes : " By what means the inhabitants of this country are...by accidental famine, or whether there is any cause that prevents the increase of the species, must be left for future adventurers to determine." * The... | |
 | William Alexander Mackinnon - 1849 - 424 pages
...the apparent inability of the country, from its desolate state, to support many more, observes : " By what means the inhabitants of this country are...by accidental famine, or whether there is any cause that prevents the increase of the species, must be left for future adventurers to determine." * The... | |
 | Thomas Robert Malthus, George Thomas Bettany - 1890 - 714 pages
...asked in Captain Cook's first Voyage, wilh respect to the thinly scattered savages of New Holland, "By what means the inhabitants of this country are "reduced to such a number as it can subsist?"1 may be asked with equal propriety respecting the most populous islands in the South Sea,... | |
 | Thomas Robert Maltus - 2006 - 325 pages
...asked in Captain Cook's first Voyage, with respect to the thinly scattered savages of New Holland, " By what means the inhabitants of this country are reduced to such a number as it can subsist? " * may be * Raynal, Histoire des Indess vol. ii. liv. lit. p. 3. 10 vols. 8vo. 1795, * Cook's First... | |
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By what means the inhabitants of this country are reduced to such a number as it can subsist, is not, perhaps, very easy to guess : whether, like the inhabitants of New Zealand, they are destroyed by the hands of each other in contests for food, whether... 