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, 17. kötetRobert Kerr W. Blackwood, 1824 |
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... Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time Robert Kerr. SECT . VIII . General Account of the Sandwich Islands continued . Government . People divi- ded into three Classes . Power of Er- reetaboo . Genealogy of the Kings of Qwhyhee ...
... Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time Robert Kerr. SECT . VIII . General Account of the Sandwich Islands continued . Government . People divi- ded into three Classes . Power of Er- reetaboo . Genealogy of the Kings of Qwhyhee ...
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... Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time Robert Kerr. Page . tinued . Of the Inhabitants . Origin of the Kamtschadales . Discovered by the Russians . Abstract of their History . Numbers . Present State . Of the Rus- sian Commerce ...
... Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time Robert Kerr. Page . tinued . Of the Inhabitants . Origin of the Kamtschadales . Discovered by the Russians . Abstract of their History . Numbers . Present State . Of the Rus- sian Commerce ...
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... Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time Robert Kerr. Description of them . amongst our People , Page . Discontents 324 · 345 CHAP . III . Unfortunate Death of Mr Cozens . Im- proper Conduct of Captain Cheap . The Indians join us ...
... Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time Robert Kerr. Description of them . amongst our People , Page . Discontents 324 · 345 CHAP . III . Unfortunate Death of Mr Cozens . Im- proper Conduct of Captain Cheap . The Indians join us ...
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... Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time Robert Kerr. A GENERAL HISTORY AND COLLECTION or VOYAGES AND TRAVELS . PART III . BOOK III . ( CONTINUED . ) CHAPTER V. CONTINUED . CAPTAIN KING'S JOURNAL OF THE TRANSACTIONS ON RETURNING ...
... Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time Robert Kerr. A GENERAL HISTORY AND COLLECTION or VOYAGES AND TRAVELS . PART III . BOOK III . ( CONTINUED . ) CHAPTER V. CONTINUED . CAPTAIN KING'S JOURNAL OF THE TRANSACTIONS ON RETURNING ...
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... Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time Robert Kerr. rious . There are four , which seem to belong to the trochili , or honey - suckers of Linnæus ; one of which is something larger than a bullfinch ; its colour is a fine glossy ...
... Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time Robert Kerr. rious . There are four , which seem to belong to the trochili , or honey - suckers of Linnæus ; one of which is something larger than a bullfinch ; its colour is a fine glossy ...
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259. oldal - The rage with which our seamen were possessed to return to Cook's River, and, by another cargo of skins, to make their fortunes at one time, was not far short of mutiny...
258. oldal - One of our seamen sold his stock alone for eight hundred dollars ; and a few prime skins, which were clean and had been well preserved, were sold for one hundred and twenty each. The whole amount of the value in specie and goods that was got for the furs in both ships, I am confident did not fall short of...
323. oldal - These were visited by an officer in the yawl, who was to endeavour to prevail upon them to join the rest ; but finding them in the greatest disorder, and disposed to mutiny, he was obliged to desist from his purpose, and return without them.
258. oldal - When, in addition to these facts, it is remembered, that the furs were, at first, collected without our having any idea of their real value; that the greatest part had been worn by the Indians, from whom we purchased them; that they were afterward preserved with little care, and frequently used for bed-clothes, and other purposes, during our...
20. oldal - America, nor uniformly .curling, as amongst the African negroes, but varying, in this respect, like the hair of Europeans. One striking peculiarity, in the features of every part of this great nation, I do not remember to have seen...
327. oldal - ... among the rocks) was with difficulty withheld from making a meal of it. The men were so assiduous in their research after the few things which drove from the wreck, that in order to have no sharers of their good...
325. oldal - One thing in this outrage they seemed particularly attentive to, which was, to provide themselves with arms and ammunition, in order to support them in putting their mutinous designs in execution, and asserting their claim to a lawless exemption from the authority of their officers, which they pretended must cease with the loss of the ship. But of these arms, which we stood in great need of, they were soon bereaved, upon coming ashore, by the resolution of Captain Cheap and Lieutenant Hamilton of...
267. oldal - Life are multiplied and augmented, and Science of other kinds increased to the Benefit of Mankind in general. This is therefore most earnestly to recommend...
37. oldal - ... through one of these, or, in case of failure, to quit it, before they reach the rocks, and, plunging under the wave, make the best of their way back again. This is reckoned very disgraceful, and is also attended with...
378. oldal - ... had quite lost himself, not recollecting our names that were about him, or even his own. His beard was as long as a hermit's, that and his face being covered with train-oil and dirt, from having long accustomed himself to sleep upon a bag, by the way of pillow, in which he kept the stinking seal.