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The officer informed me that the natives were for taking every thing out of the boat, and, in other respects,were very troublesome. The day before, they stole the grapling at the time the boat was riding by it, andcarried it off undiscovered. I now judged it necessary to have a guard on shore, to protect the boats andpeople whose business required their being there; and accordingly sent the marines, under the command ofLieutenant Edgcumbe. Soon after I went myself, with my friend Attago, Captain Furneaux, and several ofthe gentlemen. At landing, we found the chief, who presented me with a pig. After this, Captain Furneauxand I took a walk into the country, with Mr Hodges, to make drawings of such places and things as weremost interesting. When this was done, we returned on board to dinner, with my friend and two other chiefs;one of which sent a hog on board the Adventure for Captain Furneaux, some hours before, withoutstipulating for any return. The only instance of this kind. My friend took care to put me in mind of the pigthe old king gave me in the morning; for which I now gave a chequed shirt and a piece of red cloth. I hadtied them up for him to carry ashore; but with this he was not satisfied. He wanted to have them put onhim, which was no sooner done, than he went on deck, and shewed himself to all his countrymen. He haddone the same thing in the morning with the sheet I gave him. In the evening we all went on shore again,where we found the old king, who took to himself every thing my friend and the others had got.[5][4] "He was drest in mats, one of which, on account of the coolness of the morning, he had drawnover his shoulders. He resembled all other uncivilized people in the circumstance that his attentioncould not be fixed to one object for any space of time, and it was difficult to prevail on him to sitstill whilst Mr Hodges drew his portrait. After breakfast, the captains and my father prepared toreturn to the shore with him; but just as he was going out of the cabin, he happened to see anOtaheitean dog running about the deck; at this sight he could not conceal his joy, but clapped hishands on his breast, and, turning to the captain, repeated the word goorree near twenty times. Wewere much surprised to hear that he knew the name of an animal which did not exist in his country,and made him a present of one of each sex, with which he went on shore in an extacy of joy."--G.F.[5] "I remained on board all this day to arrange the collection of plants and birds which we had madeon our first excursion, and which was far from despicable, considering the small size of the island.The natives continued to crowd about our vessels in a number of canoes, whilst many wereswimming to and from the shore, who were probably not rich enough to possess a canoe. Among thegreat numbers who surrounded us, we observed several whose hair seemed to be burnt at the ends,and were strewed with a white powder. Upon examination we found that this powder was nothingelse than lime, made of shells or coral, which had corroded or burnt the hair. The taste of powderingwas at its height in this island. We observed a man who had employed a blue powder, and manypersons of both sexes who wore an orange powder made of turmerick. St Jerom, who preachedagainst the vanities of the age, very seriously reprehends a similar custom in the Roman ladies: 'Neirrufet crines, et anticipet sibi ignes Gehennæ!' Thus, by an admirable similarity of follies, themodes of the former inhabitants of Europe are in full force among the modern antipodes; and ourinsipid beaux, whose only pride is the invention of a new fashion, are forced to share that slenderhonour with the uncivilized natives of an isle in the South Seas,"--G.F.The different trading parties were so successful to-day as to procure for both ships a tolerably good supplyof refreshments. In consequence of which, I, the next morning, gave every one leave to purchase whatcuriosities and other things they pleased. After this, it was astonishing to see with what eagerness everyone caught at every thing he saw. It even went so far as to become the ridicule of the natives, who offeredpieces of sticks and stones to exchange. One waggish boy took a piece of human excrement on the end of astick, and held it out to every one he met with.This day, a man got into the master's cabin, through the outside scuttle, and took out some books and otherthings. He was discovered just as he was getting out into his canoe, and pursued by one of our boats, which
obliged him to quit the canoe and take to the water. The people in the boat made several attempts to layhold of him; but he as often dived under the boat, and at last having unshipped the rudder, which renderedher ungovernable, by this means he got clear off. Some other very daring thefts were committed at thelanding-place. One fellow took a seaman's jacket out of the boat, and carried it off, in spite of all that ourpeople in her could do. Till he was both pursued and fired at by them, he would not part with it; nor wouldhe have done it then, had not his landing been intercepted by some of us who were on shore. The rest of thenatives, who were very numerous, took very little notice of the whole transaction; nor were they the leastalarmed when the man was fired at.My friend Attago having visited me again next morning, as usual, brought with him a hog, and assisted mein purchasing several more. Afterwards we went ashore; visited the old king, with whom we staid till noon,then returned on board to dinner, with Attago, who never once left me. Intending to sail next morning, Imade up a present for the old king, and carried it on shore in the evening. As soon as I landed, I was toldby the officers who were on shore, that a far greater man than any we had yet seen was come to pay us avisit. Mr Pickersgill informed me that he had seen him in the country, and found that he was a man of someconsequence, by the extraordinary respect paid him by the people. Some, when they approached him, fellon their faces, and put their head between their feet; and no one durst pass him without permission. MrPickersgill, and another of the gentlemen, took hold of his arms, and conducted him down to the landingplace,where I found him seated with so much sullen and stupid gravity, that notwithstanding what hadbeen told me, I really took him for an idiot, whom the people, from some superstitious notions, were readyto worship. I saluted and spoke to him; but he neither answered, nor took the least notice of me; nor did healter a single feature in his countenance. This confirmed me in my opinion, and I was just going to leavehim, when one of the natives, an intelligent youth, undertook to undeceive me; which he did in such amanner as left me no room to doubt that he was the king, or principal man on the island. Accordingly Imade him the present I intended for the old chief, which consisted of a shirt, an axe, a piece of red cloth, alooking-glass, some nails, medals, and beads. He received these things, or rather suffered them to be putupon him, and laid down by him, without losing a bit of his gravity, speaking one word, or turning his headeither to the right or left; sitting the whole time like a statue; in which situation I left him to return onboard, and he soon after retired. I had not been long on board before word was brought me, that a quantityof provisions had come from this chief. A boat was sent to bring it from the shore; and it consisted of abouttwenty baskets of roasted bananoes, sour bread, and yams, and a roasted pig of about twenty poundsweight. Mr Edgcumbe and his party were just re-embarking, when these were brought to the water-side,and the bearers said it was a present from theAreeke, that is, the king of the island, to the Areeke of the ship. After this I was no longer to doubt thedignity of this sullen chief.Early in the morning of the 7th, while the ships were unmooring, I went ashore with Captain Furneaux andMr Forster, in order to make some return to the king, for his last night's present. We no sooner landed thanwe found Attago, of whom we enquired for the king, whose name was Kohaghee- too-Fallangou. Heaccordingly undertook to conduct us to him; but, whether he mistook the man we wanted, or was ignorantwhere he was, I know not. Certain it is, that he took us a wrong road, in which he had not gone far beforehe stopped, and after some little conversation between him and another man, we returned back, andpresently after the king appeared, with very few attendants. As soon as Attago saw him coming, he satdown under a tree, and desired us to do the same. The king seated himself on a rising ground, about twelveor fifteen yards from us: Here we sat facing one another for some minutes. I waited for Attago to shew usthe way; but seeing he did not rise, Captain Furneaux and I got up, went and saluted the king, and sat downby him. We then presented him with a white shirt, (which we put on his back) a few yards of red cloth, a
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AGENERALHISTORY AND COLLECTIONOFVOY
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Produce, and Inhabitants: Astronomi
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SECTION I. Passage from Ulietea to
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First Voyage, &c., second edition.
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After leaving these islands, Quiros
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of his instructions, he did not fin
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had been well ascertained, and foun
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[14] Till the discovery of what has
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third lieutenants, the lieutenant o
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have made, would have done honour t
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learning from his voyage; that he w
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long as the condition of the ships,
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occasional use of fires to destroy
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To record incidents such as these,
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on this occasion, was not omitted.T
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At two in the afternoon on the 29th
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[10] Mr G.F. speaks with much more
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steering directly for, till we were
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ears; they immediately rowed toward
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On the 24th, the wind blew from N.W
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This longitude is nearly the same t
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Myself, being the mean of six dista
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land.At nine o'clock, the wind veer
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elieve that land of any extent lay
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seen in the heavens, similar to tho
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and dashing of the waves into the c
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longitude was 121° 9'. At three o'
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We continued to advance to the N.E.
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come nearer. After dinner I took tw
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discover himself, had taken some li
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These he never would suffer to go o
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continued without intermission till
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emote from the present trading part
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which is not more remarkable for th
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clouds, and seemed to forebode much
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which appears supernatural, and wil
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Page 92 and 93: inhabiting the lithophytes. They ra
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Page 132 and 133: Their ornaments are amulets, neckla
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fresh water worth taking on board.
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towards each end. To these are tied
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perseverance of these islanders in
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I continued to steer to the west ti
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ut could not prevail on the chief t
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are a mile from each other, in the
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grounds, for such an inference.--E.
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abounding, I have been told, with f
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now entirely recovered from the blo
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come forwards in a curve. This fron
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Next day we had a present of a hog
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dinner; after which I went down to
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more proper for me to go. All his a
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end; and all I could expect, after
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We had no sooner dispatched our fri
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send him red feathers in abundance.
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hundred and ten, besides smaller ca
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especially by the ladies; as many o
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went on shore with a boat's crew, a
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in the neighbourhood; but they were
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which, according to the simplicity
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their religion, customs, traditions
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Before I finish this account of the
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heights; and only myself, and four
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the same that Tasman watered at. In
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officer. One time, after he had bee
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uncultivated. There is, however, fa
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the 9th, when we had for a few hour
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small shot, I gave him the contents
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of a negroe. Their beards are very
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view of plying up to the eastward o
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acceptable entertainment, and were
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then, to pop out and throw a dart.
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SECTION V.An Intercourse establishe
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troublesome to the eyes.Early in th
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island. Hence, that gentleman infer
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expeditious as it can well be. They
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observed, were planted as thick as
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that were prevailed on to stay, ran
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We understood that the little isle
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weapons; almost every one of them c
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appeared over the west end of Tanna
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it. The wind being at south, we wer
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[6] "Quiros had great reason to ext
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went; and the middle of it is in la
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untoward circumstances of the world
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weather side of it, we stood in wit
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appearance of the country.--"We wal
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after my return on board.It was of
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Accordingly I ordered them to be ta
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of it. A nation of women, we may co
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I have before observed, that the co
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in their country, and the scanty su
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hoisted in the boats, and made sail
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leagues. In the afternoon, with a f
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e done. We had from the top-mast-he
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in a space of two hundred leagues;
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eighteen fathoms water close to the
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[3] "They continued from time to ti
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A little within the entrance on the
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then squatted herself down, on her
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longitude 166° 15' W.On the 20th,
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Two hours after, we made the land,
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inlet was another, with several isl
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harbour is not quite free from this
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enough to spoil the appetite of any
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which we called EMBOTHRIUM coccineu
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