 | William Fordyce Mavor - Discoveries in geography - 1796 - 380 pages
...likely to aiford. They landed at a fandy beach, where fome hundreds of the natives were aifcmbled, and who were fo impatient to fee them, that many of...which they brought down a few potatoes, plantains, and 'fugar canes, and exchanged them for nails, lookingglafles, and pieces of cloth. They prefently difcovered... | |
 | William Fordyce Mavor - Discoveries in geography - 1796 - 672 pages
...likely to afford. They landed at a fandy beach, where fome hundreds of the natives were alllmbled, and who were fo impatient to fee them, that many of...to meet the boats. Not one of them had fo much as a ftick or weapon of any fort in his hand. After diftribuling a few trinkets amongft them, they made... | |
 | General history - 1815 - 802 pages
...any sort in their hands. After distributing a few trinkets amongst them, we made signs for something to eat, on which they brought down a few potatoes, plantains, and sugar canes, and exchanged them for nails, looking-glasses, and pieces of cloth.4 We presently discovered... | |
 | Robert Kerr - 1815 - 546 pages
...any sort in their hands. After distributing a few trinkets amongst them, we made signs for something to eat, on which they brought down a few potatoes, plantains, and sugar canes, and exchanged them for nails, looking-glasses, and pieces of cloth.4 We presently discovered... | |
 | Robert Kerr - Voyages and travels - 1815 - 542 pages
...any sort in their hands. After distributing a few trinkets amongst them, we made signs for something to eat, on which they brought down a few potatoes, plantains, and sugar canes, and exchanged them for nails, looking-glasses, and pieces of cloth." We presently discovered... | |
 | James Cook - Oceania - 1821 - 386 pages
...any sort in their hands. After distributing a few trinkets amongst them, we made signs for something to eat ; on which they brought down a few potatoes, plantains, and sugar-canes, and exchanged them for nails, looking-glasses, and pieces of cloth. We presently discovered... | |
 | Robert Kerr - Voyages and travels - 1824 - 530 pages
...any sort in their hands. After distributing a few trinkets amongst them, we made signs for something to eat, on which they brought down a few potatoes, plantains, and sugar canes, and exchanged them for nails, looking-glasses, and pieces of cloth.4 We presently discovered... | |
 | James Cook - Oceania - 1842 - 636 pages
...any sort in their hands. After distributing a few trinkets amongst them, we made signs for something to eat ; on which they brought down a few potatoes, plantains, and sugar-canes, and exchanged them for nails, looking-glasses, and pieces of cloth. We presently discovered... | |
 | James Cook - Explorers - 1880 - 538 pages
...of any sort in his hand. After distributing a few trinkets among them, they made signs for something to eat, on which they brought down a few potatoes, plantains, and sugar-canes, and exchanged them for nails, looking-glasses, and pieces of cloth. They soon discovered... | |
 | James Cook - Australia - 1999 - 494 pages
...any sort in his hand. After distributing a few trinkets amongst them, they made signs for something to eat; on which they brought down a few potatoes, plantains, and sugarcanes, and exchanged them for nails, looking-glasses, and pieces of cloth. They presently discovered... | |
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... that many of them swam off to meet the boats. Not one of them had so much as a stick or weapon of any sort in their hands. 