A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels: Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time, Volume 13W. Blackwood, 1824 |
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... feet three inches and a half . The women of the superior rank are also in general above our middle stature , but those of the inferior class are rather below it , and some of them are very small . This defect in size probably proceeds ...
... feet three inches and a half . The women of the superior rank are also in general above our middle stature , but those of the inferior class are rather below it , and some of them are very small . This defect in size probably proceeds ...
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... feet : The men are also marked with the same fi- gure , and both men and women have squares , circles , cres- cents , and ill - designed representations of men , birds , or dogs , and various other devices impressed upon their legs and ...
... feet : The men are also marked with the same fi- gure , and both men and women have squares , circles , cres- cents , and ill - designed representations of men , birds , or dogs , and various other devices impressed upon their legs and ...
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... feet they wear no covering ; but they shade their faces from the sun with little bonnets , ei- ther of matting or of cocoa - nut leaves , which they make occasionally in a few minutes . This , however , is not all their head - dress ...
... feet they wear no covering ; but they shade their faces from the sun with little bonnets , ei- ther of matting or of cocoa - nut leaves , which they make occasionally in a few minutes . This , however , is not all their head - dress ...
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... feet long , and eleven wide ; over this a roof is raised , upon three rows of pillars or posts , parallel to each other , one on each side , and the other in the middle . This roof consists of two flat sides inclining to each other ...
... feet long , and eleven wide ; over this a roof is raised , upon three rows of pillars or posts , parallel to each other , one on each side , and the other in the middle . This roof consists of two flat sides inclining to each other ...
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... feet , and the eaves on each side reach to within about three feet and a half of the ground : Below this , and through the whole height at each end , it is open , no part of it being enclosed with a wall . The roof is thatched with palm ...
... feet , and the eaves on each side reach to within about three feet and a half of the ground : Below this , and through the whole height at each end , it is open , no part of it being enclosed with a wall . The roof is thatched with palm ...
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a-head abreast afternoon anchor appeared ashore Banks and Dr Batavia beach boat Botany Bay Bougainville brought-to called canoes Cape Cape Colville Cape Conway Cape Grafton Cape Palliser Cape Saunders Cape Turnagain cloth coast depth of water discovered distant Dr Solander east eight leagues Endeavour River fathom water feet fire fish five leagues four leagues fresh gale half harbour hauled head hills Indians inhabitants inlet kind lances land in sight land trends lies in latitude Lizard Island longitude lying morning natives night noon northermost land northward o'clock observation Otaheite pinnace point of land Poverty Bay reef river rocks round sail seemed seen sent seven ship ship's shoals shore shot side sight bore small islands soon sound south point southward steered streight tacked and stood three leagues tide tion trees Tupia weather westward wind wood yawl
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Page 47 - A universe of death ; which God by curse Created evil, for evil only good ; Where all life dies, death lives, and nature breeds, Perverse, all monstrous, all prodigious things, Abominable, unutterable, and worse Than fables yet have feign'd, or fear conceived, Gorgons, and Hydras, and Chimeras dire.
Page 64 - Oh ! lives there, Heaven ! beneath thy dread expanse, One hopeless, dark idolater of Chance, Content to feed, with pleasures unrefined, The lukewarm passions of a lowly mind ; Who, mouldering earthward, 'reft of every trust, In joyless union wedded to the dust, Could all his parting energy dismiss, And call this barren world sufficient bliss ? — There live, alas ! of heaven-directed mien, Of cultured soul, and sapient eye serene, Who hail thee, Man-!
Page 55 - But man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave, solemnizing nativities and deaths with equal lustre, nor omitting ceremonies of bravery in the infamy of his nature.
Page 247 - Though poor the peasant's hut, his feasts though small, He sees his little lot the lot of all; Sees no contiguous palace rear its head, To shame the meanness of his humble shed; No costly lord the sumptuous banquet deal, To make him loathe his vegetable meal...
Page 266 - In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider : God also hath set the one over against the other, to the end that man should find nothing after him.
Page 25 - And oft, beneath the odorous shade Of Chili's boundless forests laid, She deigns to hear the savage youth repeat, In loose numbers wildly sweet, Their feather-cinctured chiefs, and dusky loves. Her track, where'er the goddess roves, Glory pursue, and generous Shame, The unconquerable Mind, and freedom's holy flame. II. 3. Woods, that wave o'er Delphi's steep, Isles, that crown th...
Page 5 - The shape of the face is comely, the cheek-bones are not high, neither are the eyes hollow, nor the brow prominent: The only feature that does not...
Page 15 - ... of our less temperate climate can do by ploughing in the cold of winter, and reaping in the summer's heat, as often as these seasons return ; even if, after he has procured bread for his present household, he should convert a surplus into money, and lay it up for his children.
Page 348 - 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 they are swept off by accidental famine, or whether there is any cause...
Page 268 - We had indeed some hope from the next tide, but it was doubtful whether she would hold together so long, especially as the rock kept grating her bottom under the starboard bow with such force as to be heard in the fore store-room.