 | English literature - 1784 - 722 pages
...ihould not be hurt. Then he ventured to tell us, that one of his countrymen having brought alioné hatchet to barter, the man to whom it was offered...would neither return it, nor give any thing for it ; oo which the owner of it fuatched up the bread as an equivalent, and then thç quarrel began. The... | |
 | English essays - 1784 - 548 pages
...not be hurt. Then he ventured to teli us, that one of his countrymen having broughtà (tone h^tcht't to barter, the man to whom it was offered took it, and would neither return it not give any thing for it; on which the owner of ic Snatched up the bread as an equivalent j and then... | |
 | Books - 1785 - 620 pages
...promife, that he fliould not be hurt. ' Then he ventured to tell us, that one of his countrymen having1 brought a ftone hatchet to barter, the man to whom...bread as an equivalent, and then the quarrel began. 'The ' The remainder of Kahoora's account of this unhappy affair differed very little from what we... | |
 | Voyages around the world - 1790 - 640 pages
...That one of his countrymen having brought a flone hatchet to berter, the man to whom it was offcred, took it, and would neither return it, nor give any thing for it ; on which the owner of it fnatdied up the bread as an equivalent, and thus the quarrel began. of of the kettle, and dregs of... | |
 | General history - 1814 - 798 pages
...BOOK isr. be hurt. Then he ventured to tell us, " That one of his countrymen having brought a slone hatchet to barter, the man, to whom it was offered,...nor give any thing for it ; on which the owner of it snatched up the bread as an equivalent, and then the quarrel began." The remainder of Kahoora's account... | |
 | James Cook - Oceania - 1821 - 488 pages
...not be hurt. Then he ventured to tell us, that one of his countrymen having brought a stone-hatchet to barter, the man to whom it was offered took it,...nor give any thing for it; on which the owner of it snatched up the bread as an equivalent ; and then the quarrel began. The remainder of Kahoora's account... | |
 | Robert Kerr - Explorers - 1824 - 532 pages
...should not be hurt. Then he ventured to tell us, " That one of his countrymen having brought a stone hatchet to barter, the man, to whom it was offered,...nor give any thing for it ; on which the owner of it snatched up the bread as an equivalent, and then the quarrel began." The remainder of Kahoora's account... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - Adventure and adventurers - 1830 - 444 pages
...should not be hurt. Then he ventured to tell us, ' that one of his countrymen, having brought a stone hatchet to barter, the man to whom it was offered took it, and would neither return it nor give anything for it; on which the owner of it snatched up the bread as an equivalent, and then the quarrel... | |
 | Hartley Coleridge - Biography - 1833 - 764 pages
...should not be hurt. Then he ventured to tell us, ' that one of his countrymen, having brought a stone hatchet to barter, the man to whom it was offered...nor give any thing for it ; on which the owner of it snatched up the bread as an equivalent, and then the quarrel began.' " * As no English eye-witnesses... | |
 | Hartley Coleridge - Lancashire (England) - 1836 - 774 pages
...that one of his countrymen, having brought a stone hatchet to barter, the man to whom it was oflered took it, and would neither return it nor give any thing for it ; on which the owner of it snatched up the bread as an equivalent, and then the quarrel began.' " * As no English eye-witnesses... | |
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... of his safety, than he became cheerful. He did not, however, seem willing to give me an answer to the question that had been put to him, till I had, again and again, repeated my promise that he should not be hurt. Then he ventured to tell us, that... 
