 | Missions - 1799 - 358 pages
...leaves, and conveyed past our door. The natives in our yard beheld it with the most perfect apathy, and requested me to look at it as it passed ; but...of my doors till it had proceeded beyond my sight." While practices so revolting were increasing among them, it was not to be expected that any attention... | |
 | 1809 - 914 pages
...a long basket made of cocoa nut leaves, and conveyed past our door. The natives in our yard beheld it with the most perfect apathy and indifference,...at it , as it passed; but I expressed my abhorrence at surh an outrage to humanity, and regó oirt of my doors till it had proceeded beyond my night. ¿4t»... | |
 | Enos Bronson - Literature, Modern - 1809 - 494 pages
...a long basket made of cocoa nut leaves, and conveyed past our door. Tue natives in our yard beheld it with the most perfect apathy and indifference, and requested me to look at л as it passed ; but I expressed my abhorrence ;it such an outrage to humanity, and refused to go... | |
 | Missions - 1849 - 356 pages
...leaves, and conveyed past our door. The natives in our yard beheld it with the most perfect apathy, and requested me to look at it as it passed ; but...of my doors till it had proceeded beyond my sight." While practices so revolting were increasing among them, it was not to be expected that any attention... | |
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This was accordingly done, when the unsuspicious man was walking down to the beach. The body was then laid out in a long basket, made of cocoa-nut leaves, and conveyed past our door. The natives in our yard beheld it with the most perfect apathy, and... 