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Page 29
... use these extravagant mafque- rade ornaments on any particular religious occafion , or diverfion ; or whether they be put on to inti- midate their enemies when they go to battle , by their monftrous ap- pearance ; or as decoys when they ...
... use these extravagant mafque- rade ornaments on any particular religious occafion , or diverfion ; or whether they be put on to inti- midate their enemies when they go to battle , by their monftrous ap- pearance ; or as decoys when they ...
Page 30
... use at every fentence , jerking their whole body a little forward , by bending the knees , their arms hanging down by their fides at the fame time . Though there be but too much reafon , from their bringing to fale human skulls and ...
... use at every fentence , jerking their whole body a little forward , by bending the knees , their arms hanging down by their fides at the fame time . Though there be but too much reafon , from their bringing to fale human skulls and ...
Page 31
... use the whiftle , I know not , uniefs it be when they drefs themselves like particular animals , and endeavour to imitate their howl or cry . I once faw one of them dreffed in a wolf's fkin , with the head over his own , and imitating ...
... use the whiftle , I know not , uniefs it be when they drefs themselves like particular animals , and endeavour to imitate their howl or cry . I once faw one of them dreffed in a wolf's fkin , with the head over his own , and imitating ...
Page 72
... use of the United States ; and to re- prefent them , as their Minister Ple- nipotentiary , to their High Migh- tineffes the States General of the United Provinces . On his arrival in Holland , he met with fome difficulties in the ...
... use of the United States ; and to re- prefent them , as their Minister Ple- nipotentiary , to their High Migh- tineffes the States General of the United Provinces . On his arrival in Holland , he met with fome difficulties in the ...
Page 78
... use of their knives to cut off the larger portions , they have not , as yet , thought of reducing thefe to fmaller pieces and mouth- fuls , by the fame means , though obviously more convenient and cleanly . But they feem to have no idea ...
... use of their knives to cut off the larger portions , they have not , as yet , thought of reducing thefe to fmaller pieces and mouth- fuls , by the fame means , though obviously more convenient and cleanly . But they feem to have no idea ...
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Page 460 - If a white man in travelling through our country, enters one of our cabins, we all treat him as I treat you; we dry him if he is wet, we warm him if he is cold, and give him meat and drink, that he may allay his...
Page 269 - ... him expire: he then divided the prize he had won among the widows whose husbands had been killed.
Page 459 - When any of them come into our towns, our people are apt to crowd round them, gaze upon them, and incommode them where they desire to be private: this they esteem great rudeness, and the effect of the want of instruction in the rules of civility and good manners.
Page 478 - ... having turned about to give his orders to the boats, he was stabbed in the back, and fell with his face into the water. On seeing him fall, the...
Page 487 - These pillars terminate towards the east by a sweep, thereby enclosing the chapel of Edward the Confessor in a kind of semicircle, and excluding all the rest. On the arches of the pillars are galleries of double columns, fifteen feet wide, covering the...
Page 299 - ... and, upon examination, found his pulse and the motion of his heart gradually returning: he began to breathe gently, and speak softly : we were all astonished to the last degree at this unexpected change, and after some further conversation with him, and among ourselves, went away fully satisfied as to all the particulars of this fact, but confounded and puzzled, and not able to form any rational scheme that might account for it.
Page 540 - Captain Clerke, conjecturing that he had brought the bones of Captain Cook, which proved to be the fact, went Himself in the pinnace, to receive them ; and ordered me to attend him in the cutter. When we arrived at the...
Page 299 - ... he was actually dead, and were just ready to leave him. This continued about half an hour. By nine o'clock in the morning, in autumn, as we were going away, we observed some motion about the body, and upon examination found his pulse and the motion of his heart gradually returning; he began to breathe gently, and speak softly.
Page 542 - There taught us how to live; and (oh! too high The price for knowledge) taught us how to die.
Page 545 - On the top of this rock grows a tree, called in the language of the ancient inhabitants, Garse, ie Sacred or Holy Tree, which for many years has been preserved sound, entire and fresh.