A General Collection of the Best and Most Interesting Voyages and Travels in All Parts of the World: Many of which are Now First Translated Into English. Digested on a New Plan, Том 11 |
Відгуки відвідувачів - Написати рецензію
Не знайдено жодних рецензій.
Інші видання - Показати все
A General Collection of the Best and Most Interesting Voyages and Travels in ... John Pinkerton Попередній перегляд недоступний - 2015 |
Загальні терміни та фрази
afterwards Amboyna anchor appeared arms ashore Batavia Behaim boat Borneo brought called canoes Cape Captain Cook Captain Swan Celebes chief cloth cloves coast cocoa-nuts colour Company degrees discovered distance Dutch east eight Endeavour fame fathoms water feet fire fish five four fowls fruit gave gold governor head hogs hundred Indians inhabitants island Isle Java King King of Portugal land latitude leagues leaves likewise longitude Macasser Magellan Manila manner Martin Behaim miles Mindanao monsoon morning natives navigators night north-east nutmegs o'clock observed Omai pepper piece Pigafetta pinnace plantains Portuguese present rice river rix-dollars round sailed seemed seen sent shewed ship shore side soon sort south-east south-west Spaniards steered strait Sultan Sumatra Ternate thing Tidore told took trade trees vessels voyage weather wind women wood Zubu
Популярні уривки
Сторінка 65 - The two fore-teeth of their upper jaw are wanting in all of them, men and women, old and young, whether they draw them out, I know not; neither have they any beards.
Сторінка 64 - They are tall, straight-bodied, and thin, with small, long limbs. They have great heads, round foreheads, and great brows. Their eyelids are always half closed, to keep the flies out of their eyes, they being...
Сторінка 502 - ... that a fire was kindled about a quarter of a mile farther on the way. Mr. Banks then endeavoured to wake Dr.
Сторінка 637 - They observed many trees and plants common at New Zealand; and, in particular, the flax plant, which is rather more luxuriant here than in any part of that country...
Сторінка 667 - I learned from Omai, was, that they were all, both old and young, to look upon me as a friend, who intended to remain with them a few days; that during my stay they must not steal...
Сторінка 650 - Kahoora folded his arms, hung down his head, and looked like one caught in a trap ; and I firmly believe he expected instant death.
Сторінка 642 - In the afternoon, we were agreeably surprised, at the place where we were cutting wood, with a visit from some of the natives ; eight men and a boy. They approached us from the woods, without betraying any marks of fear, or rather with the greatest confidence imaginable ; for none of them had any weapons, except one, who held in his hand a stick about two feet long, and pointed at one end. They were quite naked, and wore no ornaments...
Сторінка 604 - A party who had been sent out in the morning to view the country now returned. They had not proceeded far before a middle-aged man, punctured from head to foot, and his face painted with a sort of white pigment, appeared with a spear in his hand, and walked alongside of them, making signs to his countrymen to keep at a distance, and not to molest them.
Сторінка 603 - ... 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.
Сторінка 590 - Great injustice has been done to the women of Otaheite, and the Society Isles, by those who have represented them, without exception, as ready to grant the last .favour to any man who will come up to their price. But this is by no means the case : the favours of married women, and also the unmarried of the better sort, are as difficult to be obtained here, as in any other country whatever. Neither can the charge be understood indiscriminately of the unmarried of the lower class, for many of these...
Бібліографічна інформація
| Назва | A General Collection of the Best and Most Interesting Voyages and Travels in All Parts of the World: Many of which are Now First Translated Into English. Digested on a New Plan, Том 11 Том 11 з серії A General Collection of the Best and Most Interesting Voyages and Travels in All Parts of the World, John Pinkerton A General Collection of the Best and Most Interesting Voyages and Travels in All Parts of the World: Many of which are Now First Translated Into English. Digested on a New Plan, John Pinkerton |
| Автор | John Pinkerton |
| Редактор | John Pinkerton |
| Видавець | Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1812 |
| Оригінал із | Мічиганський університет |
| Оцифровано | 22 січ. 2007 |
| Експортувати бібліографічний опис | BiBTeX EndNote RefMan |