Narrative of a Voyage to New Zealand: Performed in the Years 1814 and 1815, in Company with the Rev. Samuel Marsden, Volumen1J. Black and son, 1817 - 397 páginas |
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Página 55 - Thou makest him to have dominion of the works of thy hands : and thou hast put all things in subjection under his feet; 7 All sheep and oxen : yea, and the beasts of the field; 8 The fowls of the air, and the fishes of the sea : and whatsoever walketh through the paths of the seas.
Página 418 - ... contemplated the features with great admiration. He said, on his return to New Zealand he should endeavour to carve a figure in imitation of it. He whispered me whenever Lord Fitzwilliam turned his back, Piannah tippeehee — Very good chief ; and with her ladyship and the company he was equally pleased. The ornamental parts of the furniture did not make such an impression upon him, as might be imagined : Of the mirrors, and other splendid ornaments, he merely observed, Miti — they are very...
Página 404 - We accepted the invitation, and made them a visit, notwithstanding the mud. They received us with open arms, having heard of us from our good old friend Toiava ; but our stay could not be long, as we had other objects of curiosity in view. We proceeded up the river till near noon, when we were fourteen miles within its entrance ; and then, finding the face of the country to continue nearly the same, without any alteration in the course of the stream, which we had no hope of tracing to its source,...
Página 48 - Full many a gem of purest ray serene The dark unfathom'd caves of ocean bear : Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air. Some village- Hampden, that, with dauntless breast, The little tyrant of his fields withstood, Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest, Some Cromwell guiltless of his country's blood. Th...
Página 405 - ... and found it to be eighty-nine feet : it was as straight as an arrow, and tapered but very little in proportion to its height ; so that I judged there were three hundred and fifty-six feet of solid timber in it, exclusive of the branches. As we advanced we saw many others that were still larger ; we cut down a young one, and the wood proved heavy and solid, not fit for masts, but such as would make the finest plank in the world.
Página 403 - But if there are no harbours about this river, there is good anchoring in every part of it where the depth of water is sufficient, for it is defended from the sea by a chain of islands of different extent, which lie cross the mouth of it, and which I have, for that reason, called Barrier Islands: They stretch NW and SE ten leagues. The south end of the chain lies .NE between two and three leagues from Cape Colville ; and the north end lies NE four leagues and a half from Point Rodney. Point Rodney...
Página 403 - In the mouth of the fresh-water stream it is from four to three fathom, but there are large flats and sand-banks lying before it. A ship of moderate draught may, notwithstanding, go a long way up this river with a flowing tide, for it rises perpendicularly near ten feet, and at the full and change of the moon, it is high water about nine o'clock. Six leagues within...
Página 353 - European a fine blue appearance. This operation causes that portion of the skin on which it is performed to remain permanently thicker. During the time that it is performed, but sometimes not for two or three months afterwards, swellings of the inguinal glands take place, and which almost always suppurate : sometimes they are opened with a...
Página 29 - Wales, hereby orders and directs that no master or geamen of any ship or vessel belonging to any British port, or to any of the colonies of Great Britain resorting to the said Islands of New Zealand shall in future remove or carry therefrom any of the natives without first obtaining the permission of the chief or chiefs of the districts...
Página 319 - But this expedient proved unsuccessful, as the lock had got rusted and would not go off; he then got some dry grass and a piece of rotten wood, and turning a small stick rapidly between his hands, in the same manner as we mill chocolate, the friction caused the touchwood, in which the point of the stick was inserted, to take fire ; while, wrapping it up in the dry grass, and shaking it backward and forward, he very soon produced a flame, which he communicated to some dry sticks, and other fuel that...