Voyages and Travels in Various Parts of the World: During the Years 1803, 1804, 1805, 1806, and 1807H. Colburn, 1817 |
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Side 260 - The interpreters here made a pause» and then proceeded. " Friendship," they said, " is like a chain, which, when destined to some particular end, must consist of a determined number of links. • If one member, however, be particularly strong, and the others disproportionally weak, the latter must of necessity, by use, be soon broken. The chain of friendship can never, therefore, be otherwise than disadvantageous to the weak members included in it.
Side 426 - She was lively and animated, had sparkling, love-inspiring eyes, beautiful teeth, pleasing and expressive features, a fine form, and a thousand other charms; yet her manners were perfectly simple and artless.
Side 343 - Boys, if they happen to be very handsome," he says, "are often brought up entirely in the manner of girls, and instructed in the arts women use to please men; their beards are carefully plucked out as soon as they begin to appear, and their chins tattooed like those of women ; they wear ornaments of glass beads upon their legs and arms, bind and cut their hair in the same manner as the women, and supply their place with the men as concubines.
Side 450 - The bright eyes of Donna Conception had made a deep impression upon his heart; and he conceived that a nuptial union with the daughter of the Commandant at St. Francisco would be a vast step gained towards promoting the political objects he had so much at heart. He had therefore nearly come to a resolution to sacrifice himself by this marriage to the welfare, as he hoped, of the two countries.
Side 113 - In the front of the thigh are often figures, which seem intended to represent the human face. On each side of the calf of the leg is an oval figure, which produces a very good effect. The whole, in short, displays much taste and discrimination.
Side 111 - We saw some old men of tke higher ranks, who were punctured over and over to such a degree, that the outlines of each separate figure were scarcely to be distinguished, and the body had an almost negro-like appearance.
Side 102 - The people of the Marquesas and Washington Islands excel, in beauty and grandeur of form, in regularity of features, and in colour, all the other South-Sea Islanders. The men are almost all tall, robust, and well made. Few were so fat and unwieldy as the Otaheiteans ; none so lean and meagre as the people of Easter Island. We did not see a single cripple or deformed person, but such general beaut; and regularity of forms, that it greatly excited our astonishment.
Side 397 - ... distinction, have it, but the circumference of the piece of board seems to mark the age or rank of the wearer. The usual size is from two to three inches long, about an inch and a half or two inches broad, and at the utmost half an inch thick ; but the wives of the chiefs have it much longer and broader. I have even seen ladies of very high rank with this ornament full five inches long and three broad, and Mr.
Side 339 - ... fishermen and huntsmen ; but they seem to excel as artificers. The instruments and utensils of the Oonalaskans have been noted for beauty. Their baidars were pronounced by Sauer "infinitely superior to those of any other island,"1 and another navigator declares them " the best means yet discovered to go from place to place...
Side 429 - All these missions have a great number of cattle and abundance of other productions necessary HISPANIC CALIFORNIA REVISITED 356 to tne suPPort of man, and the monks conduct themselves in general with so much prudence, kindness, and paternal care, towards their converts, that peace, happiness, and obedience universally prevail among...