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abounds anchorage Bahamas baidar bank bathing village boats British built Canal Cape Caribbees castle cattle channel chief place chiefly colonists colony colour commerce considerable cotton covered Cuba Curaçoa depth Domingo Dutch east east point eight elevation England English entrance exports fathoms feet fish fishery formed four miles France French fresh water Guadaloupe gulf Gulf of Mexico half harbour haven hills Hispaniola Honduras houses Indians inhabitants Isle islets Jamaica lake land largest latter leagues in circuit leagues long Loch low water Martinique miles broad miles long mountains mouth named natives navigable Nova Scotia peninsula population port Porto Rico principal produce province reefs rise river rock rocky round salt sand sandy ships shore slaves Society Islands south coast Spain Spaniards Spanish sugar three leagues three miles tide tons Tortola town trade trees twelve twenty vessels village Virgin Gorda whites winds wood
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Page 58 - Perhaps there is scarcely a spot in the universe that affords a more luxuriant prospect than the southeast part of Otaheite. The hills are high and steep and in many places craggy; but they are covered to the very...
Page 37 - ... long as to go once and a half round the waist, to which it is confined by a girdle or cord. It is double before, and hangs down like a petticoat, as low as the middle of the leg. The upper part of the garment above the girdle is plaited into several folds ; so that when unfolded, there is cloth sufficient to draw up and wrap round the shoulders, which is very seldom done.
Page 55 - The application of the above narrative is obvious. It will serve to explain, better than a thousand conjectures of speculative reasoners, how the detached parts of the earth, and, in particular, how the islands of the South Sea, may have been first peopled ; especially those that lie remote from any inhabited continent, or from each other.* This island is called Wateeoo by the natives.
Page 32 - I could not help flattering myself with the pleasing idea that some future navigator may, from the same station, behold these meadows stocked with cattle, brought to these islands by the ships of England, and that the completion of this single benevolent purpose, independently of all other considerations, would sufficiently mark to posterity, that our voyages had not been useless to the general interests of humanity.
Page 41 - The flutes are a joint of bamboo, close at both ends, with a hole near each, and four others; two of which, and one of the first only, are used in playing. They apply the thumb of the left hand to close the left nostril, and blow into the hole at one end with the other. The middle finger of the left hand is applied to the first hole on the left, and the forefinger...
Page 31 - ... but coral rock, were clothed with trees. We were now about two or three hundred feet above the level of the sea, and yet, even here, the coral was perforated into all the holes and inequalities, which usually diversify the surface of this substance within the reach of the tide. Indeed, we found the same coral, till we began to approach the summits of the highest hills ; and it was remarkable, that these...
Page 685 - ... in my own time the shape of our English ships hath been greatly bettered. It is not long since the striking of the topmast (a wonderful ease to great ships, both at sea and...
Page 658 - Indies, or any indorsement or assignment thereon, or on any bond or obligation under the common seal of the governor and company of merchants of Great Britain, trading to the South Seas and other parts of America, and for encouraging the fishery...
Page 29 - ... without the kava plant, from which they make their favourite liquor. Every article of the vegetable produce of the island abounded in others of these plantations; but these, I observed, are not the residence of people of the first rank. There are some large houses near the public roads, with spacious smooth grassplots before them, and uninclosed. These, I was told, belonged to the king ; and probably they are the places where their public assemblies are held.
Page 46 - ... as a glue. Having been thus lengthened, they are laid over a large piece of wood, with a kind of stamp, made of a fibrous substance pretty closely interwoven, placed beneath. They then take a bit of cloth, and dip it in a juice, expressed from the bark of a tree, called kokka, which they rub briskly upon the piece that is making.