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, 1832 - 303 sidor |
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... mother . " The Otaheitans have no partitions in their houses ; but it may be affirmed they have in many instances more refined ideas of decency than ourselves ; and one long a resident scruples not to declare , that he never saw any ...
... mother . " The Otaheitans have no partitions in their houses ; but it may be affirmed they have in many instances more refined ideas of decency than ourselves ; and one long a resident scruples not to declare , that he never saw any ...
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... mothers here de- scribed , whose interesting offspring are now peo- pling Pitcairn's Island , and who , while they inherit their mothers ' virtues , have hitherto kept themselves free from their vices . The greater part of the food of ...
... mothers here de- scribed , whose interesting offspring are now peo- pling Pitcairn's Island , and who , while they inherit their mothers ' virtues , have hitherto kept themselves free from their vices . The greater part of the food of ...
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... bringing up may not interfere with the brutal plea- sures of either father or mother . Another savage practice is that of immolating human beings at the morais , which serve as temples as well as sepulchres 42 OTAHEITE .
... bringing up may not interfere with the brutal plea- sures of either father or mother . Another savage practice is that of immolating human beings at the morais , which serve as temples as well as sepulchres 42 OTAHEITE .
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... mother in the skeleton ; The ills that lessen'd still their little store , And starved e'en hunger till he wrung no more ; The varying frowns and favours of the deep , That now almost ingulphs , then leaves to creep With crazy oar and ...
... mother in the skeleton ; The ills that lessen'd still their little store , And starved e'en hunger till he wrung no more ; The varying frowns and favours of the deep , That now almost ingulphs , then leaves to creep With crazy oar and ...
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... mother , already torn with anguish and tortured with sus- pense for a beloved son whose life was in imminent jeopardy such a man was William Bligh . This charge is not loosely asserted ; it is founded on documentary evidence under his ...
... mother , already torn with anguish and tortured with sus- pense for a beloved son whose life was in imminent jeopardy such a man was William Bligh . This charge is not loosely asserted ; it is founded on documentary evidence under his ...
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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 morning Morrison mutiny narrative natives NESSY HEYWOOD never night Novel observes occasion officers ordered Otaheitans Otaheite Pandora person Peter Heywood Pitcairn's Island prisoners Quintal received remained sail seamen ship ship's company shore sister situation soon Stewart sufferings tain taken thing Thomas Ellison tion told vessel vols voyage whole women young
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Sida 152 - 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.
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 214 - Well believe this, No ceremony that to great ones 'longs, Not the king's crown, nor the deputed sword, The marshal's truncheon, nor the judge's robe, Become them with one half so good a grace, As mercy does.
Sida 134 - Put the wild waters in this roar, allay them. The sky, it seems, would pour down stinking pitch, But that the sea, mounting to the welkin's cheek, Dashes the fire out.
Sida 207 - Yet, if I am found guilty this day, they will not construe it, I trust, as the least disrespect offered to their discernment and opinion, if I solemnly declare that my heart will rely with confidence in its own innocence, until that awful period when my spirit shall be about to be separated from my body to take its everlasting flight, and be ushered into the presence of that unerring Judge, before whom all hearts are open and from whom no secrets are hid.
Sida 48 - The bread-tree, which, without the ploughshare, yields 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 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 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 250 - 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 214 - ... the commissioners for executing the office of Lord High Admiral of Great Britain and Ireland...