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Page 70
... beach ] after the boat , and kept lighting fires in the scrub , at which signal some more Indians similarly armed came forward ; and whenever it seemed to them that the boat was trying to gain the beach they ranged themselves in ...
... beach ] after the boat , and kept lighting fires in the scrub , at which signal some more Indians similarly armed came forward ; and whenever it seemed to them that the boat was trying to gain the beach they ranged themselves in ...
Page 148
... beach through the night to cover their position , so that the marines should have somewhere to retire to in the event of the Indians making any attack on them . Dec. 28th . At daybreak we saw the Indians of the beach laden with thatch ...
... beach through the night to cover their position , so that the marines should have somewhere to retire to in the event of the Indians making any attack on them . Dec. 28th . At daybreak we saw the Indians of the beach laden with thatch ...
Page 234
... beach , in line , armed with very long and stout spears . Just then , too , we observed a numerous posse of them embark in the canoes from the other side of the lagoon ; and these , pushing across it with all speed , came and joined the ...
... beach , in line , armed with very long and stout spears . Just then , too , we observed a numerous posse of them embark in the canoes from the other side of the lagoon ; and these , pushing across it with all speed , came and joined the ...
Contents
List of PLATES and CHARTS | xii |
LETTER from DR COMMERSON of the Boudeuse | xvi |
2128 | xviii |
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