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Monarchs of Ocean; Columbus and Cook

Monarchs of Ocean; Columbus and Cook

Williams, Aaron
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General Political Science

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ISBN10: 1155028635
ISBN13: 9781155028637
Publisher: General Books
Pages: 74
Weight: 0.33
Height: 0.23 Width: 9.02 Depth: 6.00
Language: English
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1866 edition. Excerpt: ...land, bearing south, at the distance of about three or four leagues. I immediately hauled up for it, and found it to be an island of an oval form, with a lagoon in the mid'dle, which occupied much the larger part of it. The border of land which circumscribes the lagoon Is in many places very low and narrow, particularly on the south side, where it consists principally of a beach or reef of rocks. We saw several of the natives upon the shore, and counted four-and-twenty. LAGOON ISLAND. 133 They appeared to be tall, and to have heads remarkably large; perhaps they had something wound round them which we could not distinguish. They were of a copper colour, and had long black hair. Their habitations were under some clumps of palm-nut trees, which at a distance appeared like high ground; and to us, who for a long time had seen nothing but water and sky, except the dreary hills of Terra del Fuego, these groves seemed a terrestrial paradise. To this spot we gave the name of Lagoon Island. About one o'clock we made sail to the westward, and about half an hour after three we saw land again to the N.W. We got up with it at sunset, and it proved to be a low woody island, of a circular form, and not much above a mile in compass. We called it Thrumb Cap. On the 7th, about half an hour after six in the morning, being just at daybreak, we discovered another island to the northward, which we judged to be about four miles in circumference. The land lay very low, and there was a piece of water in the middle of it. There seemed to be some wood upon it, and it looked green and pleasant; but we saw neither cocoa-trees nor inhabitants. It abounded, however, with birds, and we therefore gave it the name of Bird Island. On the 8th, about two o'clock in the...

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