A Description of Pitcairn's Island and Its Inhabitants: With an Authentic Account of the Mutiny of the Ship Bounty, and of the Subsequent Fortunes of the MutineersHarper & Brothers, 1845 - 303 sidor |
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... keep the infant's limbs supple and straight . A crip- ple is hardly ever seen among them in early life . A rickety child is never known ; any thing resembling it would reflect the highest disgrace on the mother . " The Otaheitans have ...
... keep the infant's limbs supple and straight . A crip- ple is hardly ever seen among them in early life . A rickety child is never known ; any thing resembling it would reflect the highest disgrace on the mother . " The Otaheitans have ...
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... keep this intoxicating juice with great care from the women . As eating is one of the most important concerns of life here as well as elsewhere , Captain Cook's description of a meal made by one of the chiefs of p the island cannot be ...
... keep this intoxicating juice with great care from the women . As eating is one of the most important concerns of life here as well as elsewhere , Captain Cook's description of a meal made by one of the chiefs of p the island cannot be ...
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... keep the dropping of the trees from the thatch . An Ota- heitan wood consists chiefly of groves of bread- fruit and cocoanuts , without underwood , and inter- sected in all directions by the paths that lead from one house to another ...
... keep the dropping of the trees from the thatch . An Ota- heitan wood consists chiefly of groves of bread- fruit and cocoanuts , without underwood , and inter- sected in all directions by the paths that lead from one house to another ...
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... keep a con- stant fire night and day ; and one of the watch always attended to dry the people's wet clothes . This stormy weather continued for nine days ; the ship began to complain , and required pumping every hour ; the decks became ...
... keep a con- stant fire night and day ; and one of the watch always attended to dry the people's wet clothes . This stormy weather continued for nine days ; the ship began to complain , and required pumping every hour ; the decks became ...
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... keep up the ap- pearance of mistrusting them , but I earnestly recom- mended to them , as they valued the King of Eng- land's friendship , that they would exert their utmost endeavours to find out the offenders , which they faithfully ...
... keep up the ap- pearance of mistrusting them , but I earnestly recom- mended to them , as they valued the King of Eng- land's friendship , that they would exert their utmost endeavours to find out the offenders , which they faithfully ...
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Adams affectionate appeared arms arrival assistance beloved boat boatswain Bounty bread bread-fruit brother brought called canoes Captain Beechey Captain Bligh Captain Cook Captain Edwards Captain Pipon carpenter Charles Churchill Churchill circumstances clothes cocoanut commander conduct Cook court court-martial crew dear dearest death deck distress doubt endeavour feeling feet Fletcher Christian Fryer gave Hallet hands happy Hayward heard honour hope innocence James Morrison John John Adams kind land launch letter Lieutenant Bligh M'Intosh majesty's majesty's ship manner master-at-arms mate Matthew Quintal midshipman mind misery morning Morrison mutiny narrative natives NESSY HEYWOOD never night observes occasion officers ordered Otaheitans Otaheite Pandora person Peter Heywood Pitcairn's Island prisoners Quintal received remained sail says Bligh seamen ship ship's company shore sister situation soon Stewart sufferings tain taken thing Thomas Ellison tion told vessel voyage whole women young
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Sida 63 - Horror and doubt distract His troubled thoughts, and from the bottom stir The hell within him ; for within him Hell He brings, and round about him, nor from Hell One step, no more than from himself, can fly By change of place.
Sida 69 - Notwithstanding the roughness with which I was treated the remembrance of past kindnesses produced some signs of remorse in Christian. When they were forcing me out of the ship I asked him if this treatment was a proper return for the many instances he had received of my friendship? he appeared disturbed at my question and answered with much emotion: "That, captain Bligh, that is the thing; I am in hell, I am in hell.
Sida 48 - The unreap'd harvest of unfurrow'd fields, And bakes its unadulterated loaves Without a furnace in unpurchased groves, And flings off famine from its fertile breast, A priceless market for the gathering guest...
Sida 252 - 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...
Sida 216 - ... the commissioners for executing the office of Lord High Admiral of Great Britain and Ireland...
Sida 134 - But that the sea, mounting to the welkin's cheek, Dashes the fire out. O, I have suffer'd With those that I saw suffer : a brave vessel, Who had, no doubt, some noble creature in her, Dash'd all to pieces. O, the cry did knock Against my very heart. Poor souls, they perish'd.
Sida 101 - At dawn of day, some of my people seemed half dead: our appearances were horrible; and I could look no way, but I caught the eye of some one in distress. Extreme hunger was now too evident, but no one suffered from thirst, nor had we much inclination to drink, that desire, perhaps, being satisfied through the skin. The little sleep we got was in the midst of water, and we constantly awoke with severe cramps and pains in our bones.
Sida 70 - It will very naturally be asked, What could be the reason for such a revolt ? In answer to which, I can only conjecture that the mutineers had flattered themselves with the hopes of a more happy life among the Otaheitans than they could possibly enjoy in England; and this, joined to some female connections, most probably occasioned the whole transaction.
Sida 152 - And down she suck'd with her the whirling wave, Like one who grapples with his enemy, And strives to strangle him before he die.
Sida 152 - Like one who grapples with his enemy, And strives to strangle him before he die. And first one universal shriek there rush'd, Louder than the loud ocean, like a crash Of echoing thunder ; and then all was hush'd, Save the wild wind and the remorseless dash Of billows ; but at intervals there gush'd, Accompanied with a convulsive splash, A solitary shriek, the bubbling cry Of some strong swimmer in his agony.