The Three Voyages of Captain James Cook Around the World, Volume 2Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1821 - Oceania |
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a-head abreast afternoon anchor appeared ashore Banks and Dr Batavia beach birds boat Botany Bay breeze called canoes Cape Cape Capricorn Cape Conway Cape Grafton Cape Palliser Cape Saunders coast cocoa-nut colour covered depth of water discovered distance Dutch eastward ENDEAVOUR RIVER Europe fathom water feet fire fish five leagues four leagues fresh fruit half harbour hauled hills houses inches Indians inhabitants Java kind lances land in sight lies in latitude Lizard Island longitude low islands morning natives night nine noon northernmost northward o'clock observed pinnace Prince's Island reef resembling river rocks round sail saw smoke scarcely seemed seen Semau sent seven ship shoals shore side sight bore small island Solander soon sound south point southward steered stone tacked and stood three leagues tide town trees Tupia turtle twelve westward wind wood yawl
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Page 212 - ... necessity attend it, is perhaps beyond the power of human sagacity to determine. As this bone is as thick as a man's finger, and between five and six inches long, it reaches quite across the face, and so effectually stops up both the nostrils, that they are forced to keep their mouths wide open for breath, and snuffle so when they attempt to speak, that they are scarcely intelligible even to each other. Our seamen, with some humour, called it their spritsail-yard ; and, indeed, it had so ludicrous...
Page 48 - ... wound seemed to be so well digested, and in so fair a way of being perfectly healed, that if I had not known no application had been made to it, I should certainly have inquired, with a very interested curiosity, after the vulnerary herbs and surgical art of the country.
Page 298 - Mr. Green's servant, Tupia, and Tayeto his boy. All but Tupia fell a sacrifice to the unwholesome, stagnant, putrid air of the country ; and he who, from his birth, had been used to subsist chiefly upon vegetable food, particularly ripe fruit, soon contracted all the disorders that are incident to a sea life, and would probably have sunk under them before we could have completed our voyage, if we had not been obliged to go to Batavia to refit.
Page 158 - ... stark naked. We observed that all of them were remarkably cleanlimbed, and exceedingly active and nimble. One of these strangers had a necklace of shells, very prettily made, and a bracelet upon his arm, formed of several strings, so as to resemble what in England is called gymp : both of them had a piece of bark tied over the forehead, and were disfigured by the bone in the nose. We thought their language more harsh than that of the islanders in the South Sea, and they were continually repeating...
Page 128 - We had stood off the shore three hours and a half, with a pleasant breeze, and therefore knew that we could not be very near it, and we had too much reason to conclude that we were upon a rock of coral, which is more fatal than any other, because the points of it are sharp, and every part of the surface so rough as to grind away whatever is rubbed against it, even with the gentlest motion. In this situation all the sails were immediately taken in...
Page 140 - In this walk, he met with vast flocks of pigeons and crows : of the pigeons, which were exceedingly beautiful, he shot several ; but the crows, which were exactly like those in England, were so shy that he could not get within reach of them. On the 20th, we landed the powder, and got out the stone ballast and wood, which brought the ship's draught of water to eight feet ten inches forward, and thirteen feet abaft ; and this, I thought, with the difference that would be made...
Page 211 - ... chocolate colour. Their features are far from being disagreeable ; their noses are not flat, nor are their lips thick ; their teeth are white and even, and their hair naturally long and black, it is, however, universally cropped short; in general, it is straight, but sometimes it has a slight curl ; we saw none that was not matted and filthy, though without oil or grease, and to our great astonishment free from lice. Their beards were of the same colour with their hair, and bushy and thick ;...
Page 108 - ... sixteen feet, which was not two feet more than the ship drew. While the master was sounding the channel, Mr Banks tried to fish from the cabin windows with hook and line : The water was too shallow for fish ; but the ground was almost covered with crabs, which readily took the bait, and sometimes held it so fast in their claws, that they did not quit their hold till they were considerably above water. These crabs were of two sorts, and both of them such as we had not seen before : One of them...
Page 96 - ... walked upon the beach, and up a path that led over a hill of a gentle ascent, behind which we lost sight of them : not one of them was observed to stop and look towards us, but they trudged along, to all appearance, without the least emotion, either of curiosity or surprise, though it is...
Page 351 - Monkhouse the midshipman, who had fothered the ship after she had been stranded on the coast of New Holland ; our old jolly sail-maker and his assistant, the ship's cook, the corporal of the marines, two of the carpenter's crew, a midshipman, and nine seamen; in all three-and-twenty persons, besides the seven that we buried at Batavia.