| Search Help New search |
| Results 1-100 of 5409 for « +text:blue » |
| 24% |
The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online [page] 255 On the manner of Fertilization of the Scarlet Runner and Blue Lobelia. By T. H. FARRER, Esq. To the Editors of the Annals and Magazine of Natural History. GENTLEMEN, The following notes of observations on the fertilizing-apparatus of the scarlet runner and the common blue lobelia, made by one who has not the slightest pretence to scientific knowledge, would never have been sent to the press, but for the kind suggestion of Mr. Charles Darwin
|
| 17% |
A813
Beagle Library:
Narborough, John. 1694. An account of several late voyages & discoveries to the South and North. London: Printed for Sam. Smith and Benj. Walford.
Text
matter is not much, since it is the most miserable Country that lyeth on the Foundation of the Earth; a Country most part of it covered perpetually with Snow, and that that is bare is not to be walked on, being like Bogs, upon whose Superficies grows a kind of Moss, which beareth a small blue and yellow Flower, and this is all the Product of the Earth of this Country. Under the superficies of this Earth, about two Foot deep, after we had dug so low, we came to a firm Body of Ice; which, as I think
|
| 15% |
A813
Beagle Library:
Narborough, John. 1694. An account of several late voyages & discoveries to the South and North. London: Printed for Sam. Smith and Benj. Walford.
Text
Ice forced him to return more Southerly, till he came to Arzina, a River in Lapland; where, the next Spring, that great Man with all his Company were found frozen to death in the Ship, in this year the Russia Company began to incorporate. Anno Dom. 1556. Stephen Burrows, searching a Passage by the North East to the Indies, sailed to 80 deg. 7. min. and thence to Nova Zembla, having been in all likelyhood upon Greenland, by the desolate Land, the blue Ice, and great number of various Fowls, which
|
| 15% |
A813
Beagle Library:
Narborough, John. 1694. An account of several late voyages & discoveries to the South and North. London: Printed for Sam. Smith and Benj. Walford.
Text
to Leeward of this Ice, and in some places found pieces of the Ice driving off a Mile, sometimes more or less from the main body of the Ice; finding it to be in several strange shapes, resembling Trees, Beasts, Fishes, Fowles, c. The main Body of the Ice being low, but very Craggy, being many pieces lying close together, and some a top of each other, and in some places we saw high hillocks of blue colour, but all the rest of the Ice very white, as though it were Snow. In some places we saw drift
|
| 13% |
A762
Beagle Library:
Dampier, William. 1697. A new voyage round the world. London: James Knapton.
Text
An. 1684 and those that are farthest within Land are much higher than the others. They always appear blue when seen at Sea: sometimes they are obscured with Clouds, but not so often as the high Lands in other parts of the world; for here are seldom, or never any Rains on these Hills, any more than in the Sea near it: neither are they subject to Fogs. These are the highest Mountains that ever I saw, far surpassing the Pike of Tenariffe, or Santa Martha, and I believe any Mountains in the world
|
| 30% |
A734
Beagle Library:
Wafer, Lionel. 1699. A new voyage and description of the isthmus of America. London: James Knapton.
Text
two or three long stragling Feathers, all Red or Blue: The Feathers all over the Body are of several very bright and lovely Colours, Blue, Green and Red. The Pinions of the Wings of some of them are all Red, of others all Blue, and the Beaks yellow. They make a great Noise in a Morning, very hoarse and deep, like Men who speak much in the Throat. The Indians keep these Birds tame, as we do Parrots, or Mag-pies: But after they have kept them close some time, and taught them to speak some Words
|
| 21% |
A734
Beagle Library:
Wafer, Lionel. 1699. A new voyage and description of the isthmus of America. London: James Knapton.
Text
great variety of fine lively Colours, red, blue, c. The Indians make a sort of Aprons, sometimes, of the Feathers which grow on his Back; but these they seldom wear. This Bird keeps mostly on the Trees, flying from one to another, and but rarely to the Ground. He feeds on Fruit. His Flesh is blackish, and of a course Grain, yet pretty good Meat. [page] 11
|
| 17% |
A734
Beagle Library:
Wafer, Lionel. 1699. A new voyage and description of the isthmus of America. London: James Knapton.
Text
Parrots good store, some blue and some green, for Shape and Size like the generality of the Parrots we have from Famaica. There is here great variety of them, and they are very good Meat. Parakites They have also many Parakites, most of them Green; generally much the same as in other Places. They don't sort with the Parrots, but go in large Flights by themselves. Macaw-birds. Macaw-birds are here also in good plenty.'Tis shap'd not much unlike a Parrot, but is as large again as the biggest of them
|
| 17% |
A734
Beagle Library:
Wafer, Lionel. 1699. A new voyage and description of the isthmus of America. London: James Knapton.
Text
most are Red, Yellow and Blue, very bright and lovely. They temper them with some [page] 13
|
| 22% |
A777
Beagle Library:
Frézier, Amédée François. 1717. A voyage to the South-Sea and along the coasts of Chili and Peru in the years 1712, 1713, and 1714. London: Jonah Bowyer.
Text
singular Beauty; the two oval Fins A. were of the finest Blue that could be seen, edg'd with little Shaggs or Fringes of a Gold Colour; the Legs or Claws B. the like; the Defences C. were of the same Blue; D. represents two transparent Wings, or Fins; E. the Eyes; F. two Fins, inclining to Green, edg'd also with Jaggs, or Fringe; the Shell is of a Musk Colour, and the Extremities are of a Flesh Colour, edg'd white; under the Head are 6 other Legs, or Claws doubled, which do not appear, the
|
| 13% |
A777
Beagle Library:
Frézier, Amédée François. 1717. A voyage to the South-Sea and along the coasts of Chili and Peru in the years 1712, 1713, and 1714. London: Jonah Bowyer.
Text
Buskins, by them call'd Polaina's, to ride in, because the Poncho keeps out the Rain, is not undone by the Wind, serves for a Blanket at Night, and for a Carpet in the Field. All the Cloathing of the Women is a long Robe, without Sleeves, open from the Top to the Bottom on one side, where it is held together and girt with a Sash under the Breasts, and on the Shoulders by two Silver Hasps, with Plates of three or four Inches Diameter. This Garment is also call'd Chony, and is always blue, or else
|
| 13% |
A777
Beagle Library:
Frézier, Amédée François. 1717. A voyage to the South-Sea and along the coasts of Chili and Peru in the years 1712, 1713, and 1714. London: Jonah Bowyer.
Text
will not come out with often washing in Soap. Such is the Root of the Reilbon, a Sort of Madder, the Leaf whereof is smaller than ours; they, like us, boil the Root in Water to dye Red. The Poquell is a Sort of Gold Button, or Abrotanum f mina folio virente vermiculato, Female Southernwood with green checquer'd Leaves, which dyes Yellow, and holds as well; the Stem of it dyes Green. The Annil is a Sort of Indigo, which dyes blue: Black is dy'd with the Stem and the Root of the Panque, the Leaf
|
| 13% |
A777
Beagle Library:
Frézier, Amédée François. 1717. A voyage to the South-Sea and along the coasts of Chili and Peru in the years 1712, 1713, and 1714. London: Jonah Bowyer.
Text
Cytisus, with Flowers like Ears of Corn, of a pale Blue. [page] 11
|
| 13% |
A777
Beagle Library:
Frézier, Amédée François. 1717. A voyage to the South-Sea and along the coasts of Chili and Peru in the years 1712, 1713, and 1714. London: Jonah Bowyer.
Text
by a French Surgeon, who was an Eye Witness of this Rarity. Paradise Flower In the plains of Truxillo, there is a Sort of Tree, which bears 20 or 30 Flowers, all of them different, and of divers Colours, hanging together like a Bunch of Grapes; it is call'd Flor del Paraiso, or the Flower of Paradise. About Caxatambo, and San Matheo, a Village in the Territory of Lima,, at the Foot of the Mountains, there are certain Shrubs bearing blue Blossoms, each of which as it [page] 23
|
| 34% |
A750
Beagle Library:
Bulkeley, John and Cummins, John. 1743. A voyage to the South-Seas, in the years 1740-1, containing a faithful narrative of the loss of his Majesty's ship the Wager. London: Jacob Robinson.
Text
TO the HONOURABLE Edward Vernon, Esq; Vice-Admiral of the BLUE, c. SIR, WE have presum'd to put the following Sheets under your Protection, tho' we have not the Honour of being personally known to you, nor have applied to you A 2 [page] i
|
| 15% |
A736
Beagle Library:
Anson, George. 1748. A voyage round the world, in the years 1740, 1, 2, 3, 4 by George Anson, Esq; commander in chief of a squadron of His Majesty's ships, sent upon an expedition to the South-Seas: compiled from papers and other materials of the Right Honourable George Lord Anson, and published under his direction by Richard Walter. 3d ed. London: John and Paul Knapton.
Text
commanded by Don Manuel Zamorra. Her cargoe consisted chiefly of sugar, and great quantities of blue cloth made in the province of Quito, somewhat resembling the English coarse broad-cloths, but inferiour to them. They had besides several bales of a coarser sort cloth, of different colours, somewhat like Colchester bays, called by them Pannia da Tierra, with a few ba es of cotton and tobacco; which, though strong, was not ill flavoured. These were the principal goods on board her; but we found besides
|
| 15% |
A736
Beagle Library:
Anson, George. 1748. A voyage round the world, in the years 1740, 1, 2, 3, 4 by George Anson, Esq; commander in chief of a squadron of His Majesty's ships, sent upon an expedition to the South-Seas: compiled from papers and other materials of the Right Honourable George Lord Anson, and published under his direction by Richard Walter. 3d ed. London: John and Paul Knapton.
Text
burthen; she was commanded by Marcos Morena, a native of Venice, and had on board forty-three mariners: She was deep laden with steel, Iron, wax, pepper, cedar, plank, snuff, rosarios, European bale goods, powder-blue, cinnamon, Ramse indulgencies, and other species of merchandize: And though this cargoe, in our present circumstances, was but of little value to us, yet with respect to the Spaniards, it was the most considerable capture that fell into our hands in this part of the world; for it
|
| 15% |
A736
Beagle Library:
Anson, George. 1748. A voyage round the world, in the years 1740, 1, 2, 3, 4 by George Anson, Esq; commander in chief of a squadron of His Majesty's ships, sent upon an expedition to the South-Seas: compiled from papers and other materials of the Right Honourable George Lord Anson, and published under his direction by Richard Walter. 3d ed. London: John and Paul Knapton.
Text
things were prepared for this expedition: And the boat's crew in particular, which Mr. Anson proposed to take with him, were cloathed in an uniform dress, resembling that of the Watermen on the Thames; they were in number eighteen and a Coxswain; they had scarlet jackets and blue silk waistcoats, the whole trimmed with silver buttons, and with silver badges on their jackets and caps. As it was apprehended, and even asserted, that the payment of the customary duties for the Centurion and her prize
|
| 15% |
A810
Beagle Library:
Michell, John. 1760. Conjectures concerning the cause, and observations upon the phaenomena of earthquakes, particularly of that great earthquake of the First of November, 1755, which proved so fatal to the City of Lisbon, and whose effects were felt as far as Africa, and more or less throughout almost all Europe. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London 51: 566-634.
Text
26. In an account of an earthquake in New England, it is said, that at Newbury, forty miles from Boston, the earth opened, and threw up several cartloads of sand and ashes; and that the sand was also slightly impregnated with sulphur, emitting a blue flame, when laid on burning coals *. 27. One of the relaters of the earthquake in Jamaica in 1692, has these words: In Port-Royal, and in many places all over the island, much sulphureous combustible matter hath been found (supposed to have been
|
| 15% |
A810
Beagle Library:
Michell, John. 1760. Conjectures concerning the cause, and observations upon the phaenomena of earthquakes, particularly of that great earthquake of the First of November, 1755, which proved so fatal to the City of Lisbon, and whose effects were felt as far as Africa, and more or less throughout almost all Europe. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London 51: 566-634.
Text
nearer to the mountains, the greater the shake; and that the cause thereof, whatever it is, lies there. Indeed they are strangely torn and rent, especially the blue, and other highest mountains, which seem to be the greatest sufferers, and which, during the time that the great shakes continued, bellowed out prodigious loud noises and echoings. 87. Not far from Yallowes, a mountain, after having made several moves, overwhelmed a whole family, and a great part of a plantation, lying a mile off; and a
|
| 15% |
A810
Beagle Library:
Michell, John. 1760. Conjectures concerning the cause, and observations upon the phaenomena of earthquakes, particularly of that great earthquake of the First of November, 1755, which proved so fatal to the City of Lisbon, and whose effects were felt as far as Africa, and more or less throughout almost all Europe. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London 51: 566-634.
Text
morant, near a day's journey over, is said to be quite swallowed up. 88. In the blue mountains, from whence came a those dreadful roarings, may reasonably be supposed to be many strange alterations of the like nature; but those wild desart places being very rarely, or never visited by any body, we are yet ignorant of what happened there; but whereas they used to afford a fine green prospect, now one half part of them, at least, seem to be wholly deprived of their natural verdure *. SECT. VI
|
| 30% |
horns. 13. BLUE. Blue Goat. Kolben's Cape. II. 114. Antelope Leucoph a. Pallas Miscel. 4. Spicil. Zool. 6. Br. Mus. A. with sharp-pointed, taper, arcuated horns bending backwards, marked with twenty prominent rings, but smooth towards their points, twenty inches long: ears sharp-pointed, above nine inches in length: larger than a buck: color, when alive, a fine blue; when dead, changes to a bluish grey, with a mix [page] 2
|
| 24% |
. tab. III. . BLUE CAT. Le chat des chartreux de Buffon vi. tab. iv. probably descended from the blue wild cats of the Cape. The cat a usefull but deceitfull domestic: when pleased purrs, and moves its tail: when angry, spits, hisses, strikes with its foot: in walking, draws in its claws: drinks little: is fond of fish: the female very salacious; a piteous, jarring, squaling lover: its urine corrosive: buries its dung: the na * Felis Catus. F. cauda elongata fusco annulata, corpore fasciis
|
| 21% |
SYSTEMATIC INDEX OF THE GENERA, SPECIES, and VARIETIES. Page I. HORSE. 1 GENEROUS 1 2 Zebra 2 3 Ass 3 Mule ibid II. OX. 1 Bull 4 . Grunting 5 Indian 6 2 Buffalo 7 A. Naked 8 3 American ibid 4 Dwarf 9 III. SHEEP. 1 Ram 10 . Common 11 . Cretan ibid . Hornless ibid . Many-horned ibid . African 12 . Broad-tailed ibid IV. GOAT. 1 Wild 13 . Domestic 14 . Angora 15 . Syrian ibid . African 16 . Whidaw ibid . Capricorn ibid 2 Chamois 17 3 Siberian 18 V. GIRAFFE. 1 Camelo-pard 20 VI. ANTELOPE. 1 Blue 24
|
| 17% |
5 Grey 157 6 Silvery ibid 7 Jackal 158 8 Surinam 260 XVIII. HY NA. 1 Striped 161 2 Spotted 162 XIX. CAT. 1 Lion 164 2 Tiger 167 3 Panther 170 4 Leopard 172 5 Lesser Leopard 173 6 Hunting 174 7 Once 175 8 Brasilian 176 9 Mexican 177 10 Brown 179 11 Black 180 12 Cape 181 13 Cayenne 182 14 Common 183 . Angora 184 . Tortoise-shell ibid . Blue ibid 15 Mountain 185 16 Lynx 186 17 Bay Lynx 188 18 Persian Lynx 189 XX. BEAR. 1 Black 190 2 Polar 192 3 Wolverene 195 4 Raccoon 199 XXI. BADGER. 1 Common
|
| 17% |
Antelope, male and female. No. 21, p. 39. Vignet of the Heads of the Blue Antelope, No. 13, and the Senegal, No. 33. VII. Female Moose Deer, or American Elk, No. 35. Horns of the European. VIII. Rein Deer, No. 36. From one in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford*. Porcine Deer, No. 42. IX. Fossil Horns, p. 44. Horns of the Virginian Deer, No. 39. of the Mexican? No. 44. X. Tibet Musk, No. 46. Indian, No. 48. XI. Indian Hog, No. 57. Variety of the common Hog, place unknown. XII. Pygmy Ape, No. 95. Tufted
|
| 17% |
figured as belonging to that animal, is the horn of the Blue Antelope, No. 13. [page] 3
|
| 17% |
. Cercopithecus nigricans, genis et auriculis longis pilis ex albo flavicantibus obsitis, ore c rulescente. Brisson quad. 146. Le Moustac de Buffon, xiv. 283. tab. xxxix. M. with a short nose, the end marked with a transverse line of pure white: the face naked, and of a dusky blue: on the cheeks, before the ears, two large tufts of yellow hairs, like Mustaches: the hair on the top of the head long and upright: round the * Of M. de Buffon, tab. xxxiii. [page] 11
|
| 17% |
, natibus tectis. Lin. syst. Cercopithecus Angolensis alius*. Marcgrave Brasil. 227. White Noses. Purchas's Pilg. II. 955. M. with a short face covered with hair: nose white: orbits naked: irides yellow: hair on the body black, marked with some circles of a lighter color: tail strait, longer than the body: feet and tail black: buttocks covered: thumbs very short: not quite the size of the Pygmy ape. Inhabits Guinea: very sportive; perpetually winking. 88. GOAT. M. with a blue naked face ribbed
|
| 15% |
68. TUFTED. Mantegar Ph. Tr. No. 290. Abridg. V. 182. Bradley's Nat. 117. tab. XV. fig. 1. A. with a nose and head fourteen inches in length: the nose of a deep red, face blue, both naked: black eye-brows: ears like the human: on the top of the head a long upright tuft of hair; on the chin another: two long tusks in the upper jaw: fore feet exactly resembling hands, and the nails on the fingers flat: the hind feet have the thumbs less perfect, and the nails imbricated: the fore part of the
|
| 15% |
the middle of the back: tail marked with alternate bars of black and white, its tip black: hind part of the legs black: three times as large as the common cat; and very strongly made*. Inhabits the woods of most parts of Europe: a variety of a blue color is met with at the Cape of Good Hope: most destructive to lambs, kids, and fawns; and to all sorts of feathered game. The * In the Russian Asiatic dominions is a very elegant race of wild cats, with very soft fur, of the color of a Lynx; the
|
| 15% |
. 186. Viverra Zibetha. V. cauda annulate, dorso cinereo nigroque undatim striato, Lin. syst. 65. La Civette de Buffon, ix 299. tab. xxxiv. W. with short rounded ears: sky-blue eyes: sharp nose; the tip black: sides of the face, chin, breast, legs and feet, black: the rest of the face, and part of the sides of the neck, white, tinged with yellow: from each ear three black stripes, ending at the throat and shoulders: the back and sides cinereous, [page] 23
|
| 24% |
A745
Beagle Library:
Bougainville, Louis Antoine de. 1772. A voyage round the world performed by order of His Most Christian Majesty in the years 1766, 1767, 1768, and 1769. Translated by John Reinhold Forster. London: J. Nourse and T. Davies.
Text
make a kind of castanets of the shells of the pearl-oyster, and this is one of the instruments employed by their dancers. Animals of the country. We have seen no other quadrupeds than hogs, a small but pretty sort of dogs, and rats in abundance. The inhabitants have domestic cocks and hens, exactly like ours. We have likewise seen beautiful green turtle doves, large pigeons of a deep blue plumage and excellent taste, and a very small sort of perrokeets, very singular on account of the various
|
| 17% |
A745
Beagle Library:
Bougainville, Louis Antoine de. 1772. A voyage round the world performed by order of His Most Christian Majesty in the years 1766, 1767, 1768, and 1769. Translated by John Reinhold Forster. London: J. Nourse and T. Davies.
Text
former are but little different from those of our climate; some of those which we killed, were quite black, and others quite white. As to the teals, the one has a blue bill, and is of the size of the ducks; the other is much less. Some of them had the feathers on the belly of a flesh colour. These species are in great plenty, and of an excellent taste. [page] 6
|
| 17% |
A745
Beagle Library:
Bougainville, Louis Antoine de. 1772. A voyage round the world performed by order of His Most Christian Majesty in the years 1766, 1767, 1768, and 1769. Translated by John Reinhold Forster. London: J. Nourse and T. Davies.
Text
ticular, we had but little time; and other fish in abundance. Crustaceous fish. Here have been found only three small sorts of crustacea; viz. the cray-fish, which is red, even before it is boiled, and is properly a prawn; the crab, with blue feet, resembling pretty much that called tourelourou, and a minute species of shrimp. These three crustacea, and all muscles, and other shell fish, were only picked up for curiosity's sake, for they have not so good a taste as those in France. This land
|
| 17% |
A745
Beagle Library:
Bougainville, Louis Antoine de. 1772. A voyage round the world performed by order of His Most Christian Majesty in the years 1766, 1767, 1768, and 1769. Translated by John Reinhold Forster. London: J. Nourse and T. Davies.
Text
is the beauty of their bodies, of which the contour has not been disfigured by a torture of fifteen years duration. Custom of puncturing the skin. Whilst the women in Europe paint their cheeks red, those of Taiti dye their loins and buttocks of a deep blue. This is an ornament, and at the same time a mark of distinction. The men are subject to the same fashion. I cannot say how they do to impress these indelible marks, unless it is by puncturing the skin, and pouring the juice of certain herbs
|
| 15% |
A745
Beagle Library:
Bougainville, Louis Antoine de. 1772. A voyage round the world performed by order of His Most Christian Majesty in the years 1766, 1767, 1768, and 1769. Translated by John Reinhold Forster. London: J. Nourse and T. Davies.
Text
the blue and the white, and joins on the belly . We hoped to be able to bring one of them over to Europe. It was easily tamed so far as to follow and know the person that had the care of feeding it: flesh, fish, and bread, were its food; but we perceived that this food was not sufficient, and that it absorbed the fatness of the bird; accordingly, when the bird was grown lean to a certain degree, it died. The third sort of penguins live in great flocks or families like the second; they inhabit the
|
| 15% |
A745
Beagle Library:
Bougainville, Louis Antoine de. 1772. A voyage round the world performed by order of His Most Christian Majesty in the years 1766, 1767, 1768, and 1769. Translated by John Reinhold Forster. London: J. Nourse and T. Davies.
Text
to nails, knives, and ear-rings, which had had so great a success at Taiti. I do not believe that these men are so gentle as those of Taiti; their features were more savage, and we were always obliged to be upon our guard against their cunning tricks to cheat us by their barter. Description of these islanders. Description of their periaguas. These islanders appeared to be of a middle size, but active and nimble. They paint their breast and their thighs, almost down to the knee, of a dark blue
|
| 15% |
A745
Beagle Library:
Bougainville, Louis Antoine de. 1772. A voyage round the world performed by order of His Most Christian Majesty in the years 1766, 1767, 1768, and 1769. Translated by John Reinhold Forster. London: J. Nourse and T. Davies.
Text
third volume of his Gleanings. Its plumage is blue, or lead-coloured; the size, that of a turkey. In that noble repository of natural history and learning, the British Museum, there is a fine specimen of it. F. [page] 32
|
| 15% |
A745
Beagle Library:
Bougainville, Louis Antoine de. 1772. A voyage round the world performed by order of His Most Christian Majesty in the years 1766, 1767, 1768, and 1769. Translated by John Reinhold Forster. London: J. Nourse and T. Davies.
Text
direct our course in consequence thereof, between Point Indermay, and the Isles of Rachit, and afterwards to keep towards the offing of some rocks under water, which are to the westward of them. From noon, when we had observed in 6 26 of latitude, we steered W. and W. by S. but the sun set before we could see the land. Some of our people thought, but without any certainty, that they perceived the blue moun [page] 41
|
| 15% |
A745
Beagle Library:
Bougainville, Louis Antoine de. 1772. A voyage round the world performed by order of His Most Christian Majesty in the years 1766, 1767, 1768, and 1769. Translated by John Reinhold Forster. London: J. Nourse and T. Davies.
Text
Whistle; they make use of it to call the people to their meals. Epouponi To blow the fire. Epour To pray. Epouta A wound; this word likewise signifies the scar. Era The sun. Era-ouao Rising sun. Era-ouopo Setting sun. Era-ouavatea Noon sun. Era Heaven. Erepo Dirty, unclean. Ero Ant. Eri King. Erie Royal. Ero To wash to cleanse. Eroleva Slate. Eroua A hole. Erouai To vomit. Eroupe Very large species of blue pigeon, like those which are in the possession of marshal Soubise. Etai Sea. Etao To dart, or
|
| 13% |
A781.01
Beagle Library:
Hawkesworth, John. 1773. An account of the voyages undertaken for making discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere, performed by Commodore Byron, Captain Wallis, Captain Carteret, and Captain Cook in the Dolphin, the Swallow and the Endeavour drawn from the journals which were kept by the several commanders and from the papers of Joseph Banks. 3 vols. London: W. Strahan and T. Cadell. vol. 1.
Text
before night. We made sail and steered E. S. E. the land still having the same appearance, and the hills looking blue, as they generally do at a little distance in dark rainy weather, and now many of the people said that they saw the sea break upon the sandy beaches; but having steered out for about an hour, what we had taken for land, vanished all at once, and to our great astonishment appeared to have been a fog-bank. Though I had been almost continually at sea for seven and twenty years, I had
|
| 13% |
A781.01
Beagle Library:
Hawkesworth, John. 1773. An account of the voyages undertaken for making discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere, performed by Commodore Byron, Captain Wallis, Captain Carteret, and Captain Cook in the Dolphin, the Swallow and the Endeavour drawn from the journals which were kept by the several commanders and from the papers of Joseph Banks. 3 vols. London: W. Strahan and T. Cadell. vol. 1.
Text
is rather a testimony of his good fortune, than of his influence or power in consequence of his having what, as the common medium of all earthly possessions, is supposed to confer virtual superiority, and intrinfic advantage. The people, however, whom I had now adorned, were not wholly strangers to European commodities, for upon a closer attention, I perceived among them one woman who had bracelets either of brass, or very pale gold, upon her arms, and some beads of blue glass, strung upon two
|
| 13% |
A781.01
Beagle Library:
Hawkesworth, John. 1773. An account of the voyages undertaken for making discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere, performed by Commodore Byron, Captain Wallis, Captain Carteret, and Captain Cook in the Dolphin, the Swallow and the Endeavour drawn from the journals which were kept by the several commanders and from the papers of Joseph Banks. 3 vols. London: W. Strahan and T. Cadell. vol. 1.
Text
or fear, when she first came into the ship; and she behaved, all the while she was on board, with an easy freedom, that always distinguishes conscious superiority and habitual command. I gave her a large blue mantle, that reached from her shoulders to her feet, which I threw over her, and tied on with ribands; I gave her also a looking-glass, beads of several sorts, and many other things, of which she accepted with a very good [page] 46
|
| 13% |
A781.02
Beagle Library:
Hawkesworth, John. 1773. An account of the voyages undertaken for making discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere, performed by Commodore Byron, Captain Wallis, Captain Carteret, and Captain Cook in the Dolphin, the Swallow and the Endeavour drawn from the journals which were kept by the several commanders and from the papers of Joseph Banks. 3 vols. London: W. Strahan and T. Cadell. vol. 2.
Text
1768. October. It consisted of a small bladder about seven inches long, very much resembling the air-bladder of fishes, from the bottom of which descended a number of strings, of a bright blue and red, some of them three or four feet in length, which upon being touched sting like a nettle, but with much more force. On the top of the bladder is a membrane which is used as a sail, and turned so as to receive the wind which way soever it blows: this membrane is marked in fine pink coloured veins
|
| 13% |
A781.02
Beagle Library:
Hawkesworth, John. 1773. An account of the voyages undertaken for making discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere, performed by Commodore Byron, Captain Wallis, Captain Carteret, and Captain Cook in the Dolphin, the Swallow and the Endeavour drawn from the journals which were kept by the several commanders and from the papers of Joseph Banks. 3 vols. London: W. Strahan and T. Cadell. vol. 2.
Text
1769. January. Saturday 14. wood and water, and fowl in great plenty. Among other things, of which Nature has been liberal in this place, is Winter's bark, Winteranea aromatica; which may easily be known by its broad leaf, shaped like the laurel, of a light green colour without, and inclining to blue within: the bark is easily stripped with a bone or a stick, and its virtues are well known: it may be used for culinary purposes as a spice, and is not less pleasant than wholesome: here is also
|
| 13% |
A781.03
Beagle Library:
Hawkesworth, John. 1773. An account of the voyages undertaken for making discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere, performed by Commodore Byron, Captain Wallis, Captain Carteret, and Captain Cook in the Dolphin, the Swallow and the Endeavour drawn from the journals which were kept by the several commanders and from the papers of Joseph Banks. 3 vols. London: W. Strahan and T. Cadell. vol. 3.
Text
sorts, and both of them such as we had not seen before: one of them was adorned with the finest blue that can be imagined, in every respect equal to the ultramarine, with which all his claws, and every joint was deeply tinged: the under part of him was white, and so exquisitely polished that in colour and brightness it exactly resembled the white of old china: the other was also marked with the ultramarine upon his joints, and his toes, but somewhat more sparingly; and his back was marked with
|
| 13% |
A781.03
Beagle Library:
Hawkesworth, John. 1773. An account of the voyages undertaken for making discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere, performed by Commodore Byron, Captain Wallis, Captain Carteret, and Captain Cook in the Dolphin, the Swallow and the Endeavour drawn from the journals which were kept by the several commanders and from the papers of Joseph Banks. 3 vols. London: W. Strahan and T. Cadell. vol. 3.
Text
the ship, which at this time was within about a mile of the shore. Before the boat could land, we saw two other horsemen, one of whom was in a complete European dress, consisting of a blue coat, a white waistcoat, and a laced hat: these people, when the boat came to the shore, took little notice of her, but sauntered about, and seemed to look with great curiosity at the ship. We saw however other horse-men, and a great number of persons on foot, gather round our people, and, to our great
|
| 13% |
A781.03
Beagle Library:
Hawkesworth, John. 1773. An account of the voyages undertaken for making discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere, performed by Commodore Byron, Captain Wallis, Captain Carteret, and Captain Cook in the Dolphin, the Swallow and the Endeavour drawn from the journals which were kept by the several commanders and from the papers of Joseph Banks. 3 vols. London: W. Strahan and T. Cadell. vol. 3.
Text
1770. September. very far from becoming. Both sexes eradicate the hair from under the arm, and the men do the same by their beards, for which purpose, the better fort always carry a pair of silver pincers hanging by a firing round their necks; some however suffer a very little hair to remain upon their upper lips, but this is always kept short. The dress of both sexes consists of cotton cloth, which being died blue in the yarn, and not uniformly of the same shade, is in clouds or waves of that
|
| 13% |
A893
Beagle Library:
Wallis, Samuel. 1773. An account of a voyage round the world in the years 1766, 1767, and 1768. Pp. 363-522 in Hawkesworth, John. 1773. An account of the voyages undertaken for making discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere, performed by Commodore Byron, Captain Wallis, Captain Carteret, and Captain Cook in the Dolphin, the Swallow and the Endeavour drawn from the journals which were kept by the several commanders and from the papers of Joseph Banks. London: W. Strahan; and T. Cadell, Volume 1.
Text
or fear, when she first came into the ship; and she behaved, all the while she was on board, with an easy freedom, that always distinguishes conscious superiority and habitual command. I gave her a large blue mantle, that reached from her shoulders to her feet, which I threw over her, and tied on with ribands; I gave her also a looking-glass, beads of several sorts, and many other things, of which she accepted with a very good [page] 46
|
| 17% |
A772
Beagle Library:
Falkner, Thomas. 1774. A description of Patagonia, and the adjoining parts of South America. Hereford: C.Pugh.
Text
I have yet mentioned. These are made of marble, well polished, and fastened to a cord made of sinews. The women have no attire for their heads, but have their long hair plaited in two large tresses, which hang down on either side. They wear ear-rings, or pendants, of square brass plates, about two or three inches broad, and as many deep, with a piece of the same metal well hammered to prevent their ears, which are very widely bored, from being cut. They wear strings of sky-blue beads round
|
| 15% |
A772
Beagle Library:
Falkner, Thomas. 1774. A description of Patagonia, and the adjoining parts of South America. Hereford: C.Pugh.
Text
It is the province of the husband to provide food; which is generally the flesh of horses, ostriches, guanacoes, hares, wild-boars, armadilloes, antas, c. or whatever the country produces. He also supplies his wife with skins for the tent, and for cloathing; though they often purchase for them cloaths or mantles of European goods, of the Spaniards; and also brass-earings, cascabels, and large glass beads of a sky-blue colour, for which they have a great preference. I have seen them exchange a
|
| 13% |
A772
Beagle Library:
Falkner, Thomas. 1774. A description of Patagonia, and the adjoining parts of South America. Hereford: C.Pugh.
Text
two sorts of it; one, which has a leaf of the bigness of a bay leaf, and bearing a resemblance to it; the other is exactly the same, only smaller. They are both evergreens, and their leaves, when bruised, serve to tan the fine goatskin leather, made in this country. Their trunks weep considerable quantity of gum, which is used as incense, being very odoriferous. That with the larger leaves bears great plenty of a black fruit, which, when ripe, has a skin of a very light blue colour, almost white
|
| 13% |
A772
Beagle Library:
Falkner, Thomas. 1774. A description of Patagonia, and the adjoining parts of South America. Hereford: C.Pugh.
Text
, Salta, c. it grows in greater plenty. It is a shrub, from a yard to above two yards high. It's trunk seldom exceeds an inch in thickness, and is often less. It has no suckers near the root; but many long branches. It's leaves grow by three and three, in the manner of trefoil; they are of a beautiful green, and very smooth. It shoots out a long spike of blue flowers, something like lavender, but not so long, nor so well scented. To each of these flowers succeeds a small husk, each of which contains a
|
| 24% |
A775
Beagle Library:
Forster, Johann Reinhold. 1778. Observations made during a voyage round the world on physical geography, natural history, and ethnic philosophy. London: G. Robinson.
Text
acquainted with colours, and the various effects of their mixtures, know that green is naturally produced by mixing yellow and blue. The natural colour of the sky, and of a great many clouds, is blue: the setting sun commonly gilds all the sky and Q 2 [page] 11
|
| 24% |
A775
Beagle Library:
Forster, Johann Reinhold. 1778. Observations made during a voyage round the world on physical geography, natural history, and ethnic philosophy. London: G. Robinson.
Text
MANNERS COMPARED observed bracelets of coco-nut-shell and small plaited shell-work, and we saw the hair of the natives at Namocka and the Friendly-isles, powdered white, blue or orange; the white is no doubt made of shell-lime, the orange extracted from turmeric, which affords a very strong and deep colour, but the blue we could never obtain; nor learn how it was manufactured. The Papooas wore rings in the ears, in both nostrils, and the perforated gristle between the nostrils. They used
|
| 17% |
A775
Beagle Library:
Forster, Johann Reinhold. 1778. Observations made during a voyage round the world on physical geography, natural history, and ethnic philosophy. London: G. Robinson.
Text
Tcherkaffia. The native of Senegal is characterised by a timorous disposition, by his jetty black skin, and crisped wooly hair. A majestic size, red hair, a blue languishing eye, a remarkably fair complexion, and a warlike, intrepid, but open and generous temper distingush the Teutonic tribes of the North of Europe, from the rest of mankind. But to enumerate all these varieties, requires too much time; and the subject has been so fully treated of by others, that it would be highly improper to
|
| 15% |
A775
Beagle Library:
Forster, Johann Reinhold. 1778. Observations made during a voyage round the world on physical geography, natural history, and ethnic philosophy. London: G. Robinson.
Text
, which increase the stupendous size of the floating ice-mountains. The second objection against the freezing of the ocean into such ice as is found floating in it, is taken from the opacity of ice formed in salt-water; because the largest masses are commonly transparent like crystal, with a fine blue tinct, caused by the reflection of the sea. This argument is very specious, and might be deemed unanswerable to those, who are not used to cold winters, and their ef 5 [page] 9
|
| 15% |
A775
Beagle Library:
Forster, Johann Reinhold. 1778. Observations made during a voyage round the world on physical geography, natural history, and ethnic philosophy. London: G. Robinson.
Text
hardly any rags to cover his skin; they will, of natural consequence, become widely different in colour; moreover, if this diversity in the mode of living be kept up for several generations, the character of both must of course become more strikingly different. If we look upon the inhabitants of Denmark, we find them remarkably fair, and with blue eyes, and red hair. The Bohemians, Poles, Russians, and in general all the Slavonian nations, have a brownish complexion, dark eyes, and black or brown
|
| 15% |
A775
Beagle Library:
Forster, Johann Reinhold. 1778. Observations made during a voyage round the world on physical geography, natural history, and ethnic philosophy. London: G. Robinson.
Text
MANNERS COMPARED blished all over the islands of the South Sea, with this difference only, that some marked chiefly the face, as the people at New-Zeeland; others imprinted indelible figures all over the body, as at the Marquesas; some produced only large blotches on the buttocks, which is chiefly customary at the Society-isles and Taheitee; others again have only a few black or blue spots on their lips, which is the custom of the women at New-Zeeland. Strange as this custom seems to be, it
|
| 10% |
A775
Beagle Library:
Forster, Johann Reinhold. 1778. Observations made during a voyage round the world on physical geography, natural history, and ethnic philosophy. London: G. Robinson.
Text
cylinder of blue cotton cloth on the part affected by pain. The Indians and Malays, use various substances for cauteries applied on diseased parts of the body, the most common of which is the pith of rushes, dipt in Sesam-oil. The Chinese and Japanese use the downy part collected from the young leaves of the common mugwort (Artemisia vulgaris) form a little cone of it, put it on the body and burn it. This remedy has been recommended and used by some Dutch physicians against the gout and rheumatisms
|
| 21% |
A822.01
Beagle Library:
Richardson, Samuel. 1781. The history of Sir Charles Grandison. 7 vols. London: Strachan. Volume 1.
Text
. A kind of waistcoat of blue satin trimmed with silver point d'Espagne, the skirts edged with silver fringe, is made to sit close to my waist by double clasps, a small silver tassel at the end of each clasp; all set off with bugles and spangles, which make a mighty glitter. But I am to be allowed a kind of scarf of white Persian silk; which, gathered at the top, is to be fastened to my shoulders, and to fly loose behind me. Bracelets on my arms. They would have given me a crook; but I would not
|
| 15% |
A822.06
Beagle Library:
Richardson, Samuel. 1781. The history of Sir Charles Grandison. 7 vols. London: Strachan. Volume 6.
Text
neganepauts? And why bejatapoutz should be more esteemed than the finer fabric of blue chelloes?*' A very good rebuke of affectation, said Sir Charles (and your ladyship hints it was an efficacious one). It serves to shew, that men, in their different attainments, may be equally useful; in other words, that the knowledge of polite literature leads not to every part of useful science. I remember, that my Harriet distinguishes very properly, in some of her letters to her Lucy, between language
|
| 21% |
A758.01
Beagle Library:
Cook, James and King, James. 1784. A voyage to the Pacific Ocean undertaken, by the command of His Majesty, for making discoveries in the northern hemisphere. 3 vols. London: Strachan. vol. 1.
Text
sparrow, of a fine yellowish green, with bright azure on the crown of the head, and the throat and belly red; besides another fort as large as a dove, with a blue crown and thighs, the throat and under part of the head crimson, as also part of the belly, and the rest a beautiful green, There are owls about the size of our common fort, but of a finer plumage; the cuckoos, mentioned at Palmerston's Island; king-fishers, about the size of a thrush, of a greenish blue, with a white ring about the neck
|
| 21% |
A758.01
Beagle Library:
Cook, James and King, James. 1784. A voyage to the Pacific Ocean undertaken, by the command of His Majesty, for making discoveries in the northern hemisphere. 3 vols. London: Strachan. vol. 1.
Text
1777. July. ones; rasps; files; and knives, are much sought after. Red cloth; and linen, both white and coloured; looking-glasses, and beads, are also in estimation; but, of the letter, those that are blue, are preferred to all others; and white ones are thought the least valuable. A firing of large blue beads would, at any time, purchase a hog. But it must be observed, that such articles as are merely ornaments, may be highly esteemed at one time, and not so at another. When we first arrived
|
| 21% |
A758.02
Beagle Library:
Cook, James and King, James. 1784. A voyage to the Pacific Ocean undertaken, by the command of His Majesty, for making discoveries in the northern hemisphere. 3 vols. London: Strachan. vol. 2.
Text
their native ornaments. But we found many beads of European manufacture among them, chiefly of a pale blue colour, which they hang in their ears; about their caps; or join to their lip-ornaments, which have a small hole drilled in each point to which they are fastened, and others to them, till they hang sometimes as low as the point of the chin. But, in this last case, they cannot remove them so easily; for, as to their own lip-ornaments, they can take them out with their tongue, or suck within
|
| 17% |
A758.03
Beagle Library:
Cook, James and King, James. 1784. A voyage to the Pacific Ocean undertaken, by the command of His Majesty, for making discoveries in the northern hemisphere. 3 vols. London: Strachan. vol. 3.
Text
No. 464. Procellaria pelagica 212. Kurile petrel P. 536.A. Blue petrel*. Preface Goosander merganser No. 465. Mergus merganser 208. Smew No. 468. Mergus albellus 209. Whistling swan No. 469. Anas Cygnus ferus 194. A. Great goose P. 570. Chinese goose P. 571. Anas cygnoides 194.B. Snow goose No. 477. Brent goose No. 478. Anas bernicla 198. Eider duck No. 480. Anas mollissima 198. Black duck No. 483. Anas spectabilis 195. Velvet duck No. 481. Anas fusca 196. Shoveler No. 485. Anas clypeata 200
|
| 17% |
A758.03
Beagle Library:
Cook, James and King, James. 1784. A voyage to the Pacific Ocean undertaken, by the command of His Majesty, for making discoveries in the northern hemisphere. 3 vols. London: Strachan. vol. 3.
Text
. Kooees, or quoees, Snow, or bail. Aopk, To whistle. Asheeaiksheetl, To yawn. Elsthltleek, An instrument of two sticks standing from each other, with barbs. Cheeeeakis, A scar of a wound. Tchoo, Throw it down, or to me. Cheetkoohekai, or Cheetkoaik, A wooden instrument with many bone teeth, to catch small fish with. Kaenne, or Koenai, A crow, a bird. Keesapa, A fish; a white bream. Klaamoo, A bream striped with blue and gold colours. Taaweesh, or Tsuskeeah, A stone weapon, or tomabawk, with a wooden
|
| 15% |
A758.01
Beagle Library:
Cook, James and King, James. 1784. A voyage to the Pacific Ocean undertaken, by the command of His Majesty, for making discoveries in the northern hemisphere. 3 vols. London: Strachan. vol. 1.
Text
, in our late voyage. The Cape petrel, or Pintado bird; the small blue one, which is always seen at sea; and the small black one, or Mother Carey's Chicken, are not here in great numbers. But we found a nest of the first with an egg in it, about the size of a pullet's; and the second, though scarce, was met with in some holes like rabbit-burrows. Another sort, which is the largest of all the petrels, and called by the seamen Mother Carey's Goose, is in greater numbers; and so tame, that at first
|
| 15% |
A758.01
Beagle Library:
Cook, James and King, James. 1784. A voyage to the Pacific Ocean undertaken, by the command of His Majesty, for making discoveries in the northern hemisphere. 3 vols. London: Strachan. vol. 1.
Text
, which I shall not dispute; but how others of the appearances could be effected, but by earthquakes, or some such severe shocks, I cannot say. It appears that rain must be almost constant here, not only from the marks of large torrents having rushed down, but from the disposition of the country, which, even on the hills, is almost an entire bog or swamp, the ground finking at every step. The rocks, or foundations of the hills, are composed chiefly of a dark blue, and very hard, stone, intermixed
|
| 15% |
A758.01
Beagle Library:
Cook, James and King, James. 1784. A voyage to the Pacific Ocean undertaken, by the command of His Majesty, for making discoveries in the northern hemisphere. 3 vols. London: Strachan. vol. 1.
Text
tinged with green. We frequently shot both these, and also a more common sort of shags, black above and white underneath, that build their nests upon trees, on which sometimes a dozen or more sit at once. There are also, about the shore, a few sea-gulls; some blue herons; and sometimes, though very rarely, wild ducks; a small sandy coloured plover, and some sand larks. And small penguins black above, with a white belly, as well as numbers of little black divers, swim often about the Sound. We
|
| 15% |
A758.01
Beagle Library:
Cook, James and King, James. 1784. A voyage to the Pacific Ocean undertaken, by the command of His Majesty, for making discoveries in the northern hemisphere. 3 vols. London: Strachan. vol. 1.
Text
, variegated with black, which was shot. But, upon the shore, were some egg-birds; a small fort of curlew; blue and white herons; and great numbers of noddies; which last, at this time, laid their eggs, a little farther up, on the ground, and often rested on the wharra tree. One of our people caught a lizard, of a most forbidding aspect, though small, running up a tree; and many, of another fort, were seen. The bushes toward the sea, were frequented by infinite numbers of a fort of moth, elegantly
|
| 15% |
A758.01
Beagle Library:
Cook, James and King, James. 1784. A voyage to the Pacific Ocean undertaken, by the command of His Majesty, for making discoveries in the northern hemisphere. 3 vols. London: Strachan. vol. 1.
Text
yellow, blue, red, black, c. far exceeding any thing that art can produce. Their various forms, also, contributed to increase the richness of this submarine grotto, which could not be surveyed without a pleasing transport, mixed, however, with regret, that a work, so stupendously elegant, should be concealed, in a place where mankind could seldom have an opportunity of rendering the praises justly due to so enchanting a scene. There were no traces of inhabitants having ever been here; if we
|
| 15% |
A758.01
Beagle Library:
Cook, James and King, James. 1784. A voyage to the Pacific Ocean undertaken, by the command of His Majesty, for making discoveries in the northern hemisphere. 3 vols. London: Strachan. vol. 1.
Text
1777. July. that all at once; for every leaf is succeeded by another, as fast as it falls; which causes that appearance of universal and continual spring found here. The basis of the island, as far as we know, is entirely a coral rock, which is the only fort that presents itself on the shore. Nor did we see the least appearance of any other stone, except a few small blue pebbles strewed about the fiatookas; and the smooth, solid black stone, something like the lapis lydius, of which the
|
| 15% |
A758.01
Beagle Library:
Cook, James and King, James. 1784. A voyage to the Pacific Ocean undertaken, by the command of His Majesty, for making discoveries in the northern hemisphere. 3 vols. London: Strachan. vol. 1.
Text
*; another, half the size Of the common fort, of a light green on the back and wings, with a red forehead; and a third, somewhat less, of a purple brown, but whitish underneath. Of water-fowl, and such as frequent the sea, are the ducks seen at Annamooka, though scarce here; blue and white herons; tropic birds; common noddies; white terns; a new species of a leaden colour, with a black crest; a small bluish curlew; and a large plover, spotted with yellow. Besides the large bats, mentioned before
|
| 15% |
A758.02
Beagle Library:
Cook, James and King, James. 1784. A voyage to the Pacific Ocean undertaken, by the command of His Majesty, for making discoveries in the northern hemisphere. 3 vols. London: Strachan. vol. 2.
Text
1778. January. sorts of rock-fish; one with numerous spots of blue, and the other with whitish streaks scattered about. The soil of this island, in some places, is light and black, evidently composed of decayed vegetables, the dung of birds, and sand. There are other places again, where nothing but marine productions, such as broken coral stones, and shells, are to be seen. These are deposited in long, narrow ridges, lying in a parallel direction with the sea-coast, not unlike a ploughed field
|
| 15% |
A758.02
Beagle Library:
Cook, James and King, James. 1784. A voyage to the Pacific Ocean undertaken, by the command of His Majesty, for making discoveries in the northern hemisphere. 3 vols. London: Strachan. vol. 2.
Text
, brownish rock-fish, spotted with blue; a turtle, which was penned up in a pond; and three or four sorts of fish salted. The few shell-fish, that we saw, were chiefly converted into ornaments, though they neither had beauty nor novelty to recommend them. The hogs, dogs, and fowls, which were the only tame or domestic animals that we found here, were all of the same kind that we met with at the South Pacific islands. There were also small lizards; and some rats, resembling those seen at every island at
|
| 15% |
A758.02
Beagle Library:
Cook, James and King, James. 1784. A voyage to the Pacific Ocean undertaken, by the command of His Majesty, for making discoveries in the northern hemisphere. 3 vols. London: Strachan. vol. 2.
Text
1778. February. make the impressions. In what manner they produce their colours, we had not opportunities of learning; but besides the party-coloured sorts, they have some pieces of plain white cloth, and others of a single colour, particularly dark brown and light blue. In general, the pieces which they brought to us, were about two feet broad, and four or five yards long, being the form and quantity that they use for their common dress, or maro; and even these we sometimes found were
|
| 15% |
A758.02
Beagle Library:
Cook, James and King, James. 1784. A voyage to the Pacific Ocean undertaken, by the command of His Majesty, for making discoveries in the northern hemisphere. 3 vols. London: Strachan. vol. 2.
Text
; goose-grass; some crow's-foot, which has a very fine crimson flower; and two sorts of anthericum; one with a large orange flower, and the other with a blue one. We also found, in these situations, some wild rose-bushes, which P p 2 [page] 29
|
| 15% |
A758.02
Beagle Library:
Cook, James and King, James. 1784. A voyage to the Pacific Ocean undertaken, by the command of His Majesty, for making discoveries in the northern hemisphere. 3 vols. London: Strachan. vol. 2.
Text
smaller sort, which is the same with the anchovy, or sardine, though rather larger; a white, or silver-coloured bream, and another of a gold-brown colour, with many narrow longitudinal blue stripes. The herrings and sardines, doubtless, come in large shoals, and only at stated seasons, as is common with that sort of fish. The bream, of both sorts, may be reckoned the next to these in quantity; and the full grown ones weighed, at least, a pound. The other fish, which are all scarce, are a small
|
| 15% |
A758.02
Beagle Library:
Cook, James and King, James. 1784. A voyage to the Pacific Ocean undertaken, by the command of His Majesty, for making discoveries in the northern hemisphere. 3 vols. London: Strachan. vol. 2.
Text
the wings with a black band; and the rest blueish above, and white below. We also saw a brownish duck, with a black or deep blue head and neck, sitting upon the water. Wednes. 6. Having but light winds, with some calms, we advanced slowly; so that, on the 6th at noon, we were only in the latitude of 59 8 , and in the longitude of 220 19 . Mount Fair Weather bore South, 63 East, and Mount Elias North, 30 West; the nearest land about eight leagues distant. In the direction of North, 47 East from
|
| 15% |
A758.02
Beagle Library:
Cook, James and King, James. 1784. A voyage to the Pacific Ocean undertaken, by the command of His Majesty, for making discoveries in the northern hemisphere. 3 vols. London: Strachan. vol. 2.
Text
; ducks, or large peterels; gulls; shags; and burres. The divers were of two sorts; one very large, of a black colour, with a white breast and belly; the other smaller, and with a longer and more pointed bill, which seemed to be the common guillemot. The ducks were also of two sorts; one brownish, with a black or deep blue head and neck, and is perhaps the stone duck described by Steller. The others fly in larger flocks, but are smaller than these, and are of a dirty black colour. The gulls were of
|
| 15% |
A758.02
Beagle Library:
Cook, James and King, James. 1784. A voyage to the Pacific Ocean undertaken, by the command of His Majesty, for making discoveries in the northern hemisphere. 3 vols. London: Strachan. vol. 2.
Text
much unlike cinnabar in colour; a bright blue pigment, which we did not procure; and black lead. Each of these seems to be very scarce, as they brought very small quantities of the first and last, and seemed to keep them with great care. Few vegetables of any kind were seen; and the trees which chiefly grew here, were the Canadian and spruce pine and some of them tolerably large. The beads and iron found amongst these people, left no room to doubt, that they must have received them from some
|
| 15% |
A758.02
Beagle Library:
Cook, James and King, James. 1784. A voyage to the Pacific Ocean undertaken, by the command of His Majesty, for making discoveries in the northern hemisphere. 3 vols. London: Strachan. vol. 2.
Text
halibut. In exchange for these they took old clothes, beads, and pieces of iron. We found that they were in possession of large iron knives, and of sky-blue glass beads, such as we had found amongst the natives of Prince William's Sound. These latter they seemed to value much, and consequently those which we now gave them. But their inclination led them, especially, to ask for large pieces of iron; which metal, if I was not much mistaken, they called by the name of goone; though, like their
|
| 15% |
A758.02
Beagle Library:
Cook, James and King, James. 1784. A voyage to the Pacific Ocean undertaken, by the command of His Majesty, for making discoveries in the northern hemisphere. 3 vols. London: Strachan. vol. 2.
Text
the year 1772, and a paper, on which was inscribed the names of our ships, and the date of our discovery. In the mean time, the ships were got under sail, in order to proceed down the river. The wind still blue fresh, Easterly; but a calm ensued, not long after we were under way; and the flood-tide meeting us off the point where Mr. King landed (and which thence got the name of Point Possession), we were obliged to drop anchor in fix fathoms water, with the point bearing South, two miles
|
| 15% |
A758.03
Beagle Library:
Cook, James and King, James. 1784. A voyage to the Pacific Ocean undertaken, by the command of His Majesty, for making discoveries in the northern hemisphere. 3 vols. London: Strachan. vol. 3.
Text
, found that twelve or fourteen feet had been washed off from under the larboard-bow, where we supposed the leak to have been; which, ever since our leaving Sandwich Islands, had kept the people almost constantly at the pumps, making twelve inches water an hour. This day we saw a number of small crabs, of a pale blue colour; and had again, in company, a few albatrosses and sheerwaters. The thermometer, in the night-time, sunk eleven degrees; and although it still remained as high as 59 , yet we
|
| 15% |
A758.03
Beagle Library:
Cook, James and King, James. 1784. A voyage to the Pacific Ocean undertaken, by the command of His Majesty, for making discoveries in the northern hemisphere. 3 vols. London: Strachan. vol. 3.
Text
1779. October. zowa; that there is likewise the service-tree (padus foliis annuis); and two species of the white-thorn, one bearing a red, the other a black berry. Of the shrub kind, as junipers, the mountain-ash, wild rose-trees, and rasberry-bushes, the country produces great abundance; together with a variety of berries; blue-berries of two sorts, round and oval; partridge-berries; cran-berries; crow-berries, and black-berries. These the natives gather at proper seasons, and preserve, by
|
| 15% |
A758.03
Beagle Library:
Cook, James and King, James. 1784. A voyage to the Pacific Ocean undertaken, by the command of His Majesty, for making discoveries in the northern hemisphere. 3 vols. London: Strachan. vol. 3.
Text
1779. October. but straight. The back is of a dark blue, spotted with black; in other respects they are much like our common salmon. They ascend the river with extraordinary velocity, insomuch that the water is sensibly agitated by their motion; and the Kamtschadales, who are always on the watch for them about the time they are expected, judge of their approach by this circumstance, and immediately let drop their nets before them. We were presented with one of the first that was caught, and
|
| 15% |
A758.03
Beagle Library:
Cook, James and King, James. 1784. A voyage to the Pacific Ocean undertaken, by the command of His Majesty, for making discoveries in the northern hemisphere. 3 vols. London: Strachan. vol. 3.
Text
Persian silk, of a blue, red, or yellow colour. The remaining part of their dress consists of a pair of tight trowsers, or long breeches, of leather, reaching down to the calf of the leg; of a pair of dog or deer skin boots, with the hair innermost; and of a fur cap, with two flaps, which are generally tied up close to the head, but in bad weather are let to fall round the shoulders. The fur dress presented to me by a son of Major Behm (as already mentioned) is one of those worn by the Toions, on
|
| 15% |
A758.03
Beagle Library:
Cook, James and King, James. 1784. A voyage to the Pacific Ocean undertaken, by the command of His Majesty, for making discoveries in the northern hemisphere. 3 vols. London: Strachan. vol. 3.
Text
? Kaee, or Eekaee, No. Kalae, A blue coot. Oloonga, A stool. Takkabou, A course mat to steep upon. Kakulla, A sweet smell, sweet smelled. Namooa, To smell; smell it. Koe, It is; as, Koe maa, it is food; Koe maiee, it is fruitful. Koatoooo, A king fisher. Mogo, A lizard. Toutou, A cord. Matte laiva, Dead. Moeha, More. Veenaga, Fine, charming, wonderful. Tougge my, Bring it here. Ai, (long) angrily, No. Tamma, Boy, man, friend, calling to one. [page] 53
|
| 15% |
A758.03
Beagle Library:
Cook, James and King, James. 1784. A voyage to the Pacific Ocean undertaken, by the command of His Majesty, for making discoveries in the northern hemisphere. 3 vols. London: Strachan. vol. 3.
Text
Friendly Isles. English. Faee, To shave. Motooa, A parent. Moumy, To paddle, or row. Avy, ava, or govy, A harbour or anchoring-place. Po, taha, pai, In one day. Ebaika, A large bat. Kakaa, A parrot. Tooge, Marks on the cheek, made by beating. Nono, To hide a thing. Fonooa, or Kaeenga, Land. Beeoo, A palm which bears clusters of very small nuts. Haoomoo, A large blunt sort of plantains. Goolo, A globular earthen pot, or vessel. Manga, mangatei, A large blue star-fish. Hainga; A parroquet
|
| 13% |
A758.01
Beagle Library:
Cook, James and King, James. 1784. A voyage to the Pacific Ocean undertaken, by the command of His Majesty, for making discoveries in the northern hemisphere. 3 vols. London: Strachan. vol. 1.
Text
cast, is remarkable for having a tuft of white curled feathers hanging under the throat, and was called the Poy bird* by our people. Another fort, rather smaller, is black, with a brown back and wings, and two small gills under the root of the bill. This we called the small wattle bird, to distinguish it from another, which, we called the large one, of the size of a common pigeon, with two large yellow and purple membranes also, at the root of the bill. It is black, or rather blue, and has no
|
| 13% |
A758.01
Beagle Library:
Cook, James and King, James. 1784. A voyage to the Pacific Ocean undertaken, by the command of His Majesty, for making discoveries in the northern hemisphere. 3 vols. London: Strachan. vol. 1.
Text
saw; though one man passed a twig through it, to shew us that it was sometimes used for that purpose. They wear long beards, but are fond of having them shaved. Some are punctured or stained in the face with curious spiral and other figures, of a black or deep blue colour; X 2 [page] 15
|
| 13% |
A758.01
Beagle Library:
Cook, James and King, James. 1784. A voyage to the Pacific Ocean undertaken, by the command of His Majesty, for making discoveries in the northern hemisphere. 3 vols. London: Strachan. vol. 1.
Text
women strip the hair from their armpits. The operation by which this is performed has been already described. The men are stained from about the middle of the belly, to about half way down the thighs, with a deep blue colour. This is done with a flat bone instrument, cut full of fine teeth, which, being dipped in the staining mixture, prepared from the juice of the dooe dooe, is struck into the skin with a bit of flick; and, by that means,. indelible marks are made. In this manner they trace lines
|
| 13% |
A758.02
Beagle Library:
Cook, James and King, James. 1784. A voyage to the Pacific Ocean undertaken, by the command of His Majesty, for making discoveries in the northern hemisphere. 3 vols. London: Strachan. vol. 2.
Text
1777. August. Thursday 28. that bay the night before; and, in confirmation of this intelligence, he produced a piece of coarse blue cloth, which, he said, he got out of one of the ships; and which, indeed, to appearance, was almost quite new. He added, that Mateema was in one of the ships; and that they were to come down to Matavai in a day or two. Some other circumstances which he mentioned, with the foregoing ones, gave the story so much the air of truth, that I dispatched Lieutenant
|
| 13% |
A758.02
Beagle Library:
Cook, James and King, James. 1784. A voyage to the Pacific Ocean undertaken, by the command of His Majesty, for making discoveries in the northern hemisphere. 3 vols. London: Strachan. vol. 2.
Text
into a glass cup, with some salt water, in which they appeared like small scales, or bits of silver, when at rest, in a prone situation. When they began to swim about, which they did, with equal ease, upon their back, sides, or belly, they emitted the brightest colours of the most precious gems, according to their position with respect to the light. Sometimes they appeared quite pellucid, at other times assuming various tints of blue, from a pale sapphirine, to a deep violet colour; which were
|
| 13% |
A758.02
Beagle Library:
Cook, James and King, James. 1784. A voyage to the Pacific Ocean undertaken, by the command of His Majesty, for making discoveries in the northern hemisphere. 3 vols. London: Strachan. vol. 2.
Text
some of our people had stepped into their boats. Amongst those who came on board, was a good-looking middle-aged man, whom we afterward found to be the Chief. He was clothed in a dress made of the sea-otter's skin; and had on his head such a cap as is worn by the people of King George's Sound, ornamented with sky-blue glass beads, about the size of a large pea. He seemed to set a much higher value upon these, than upon our white glass beads. Any sort of beads, however, appeared to be in high
|
| 13% |
A758.02
Beagle Library:
Cook, James and King, James. 1784. A voyage to the Pacific Ocean undertaken, by the command of His Majesty, for making discoveries in the northern hemisphere. 3 vols. London: Strachan. vol. 2.
Text
1778. September. Thursday 10. Friday 11. Having continued to ply back all night, by day-break the next morning we had got into six fathoms water. At nine o'clock, being about a league from the West shore, I took two boats, and landed, attended by Mr. King, to seek wood and water. We landed where the coast projects out into a bluss head, composed of perpendicular strata of a rock of a dark blue colour, mixed with quartz and glimmer. There joins to the beach a narrow border of land, now covered
|
| 13% |
A758.03
Beagle Library:
Cook, James and King, James. 1784. A voyage to the Pacific Ocean undertaken, by the command of His Majesty, for making discoveries in the northern hemisphere. 3 vols. London: Strachan. vol. 3.
Text
1779. May. wood, strongly bound together with wicker work; which in those belonging to the better sort of people is elegantly stained of a red and blue colour, and the seat covered with bearskins, or other furs. It is supported by four legs, about two feet high, which rest on two long flat pieces of wood, five or six inches broad, extending a foot at each end beyond the body of the sledge. These are turned up before in the manner of a skate, and shod with the bone of some sea animal. The fore
|
| 13% |
A758.03
Beagle Library:
Cook, James and King, James. 1784. A voyage to the Pacific Ocean undertaken, by the command of His Majesty, for making discoveries in the northern hemisphere. 3 vols. London: Strachan. vol. 3.
Text
20 106 14 23 37 48 29, 78 Ditto. Fresh breezes, and foggy; with rain at times. 11 48 16 109 6 49 29, 70 Ditto. Moderate wind, and hazy. Porpoises, and some birds. 12 48 40 110 26 50 29, 66 Ditto. Light breezes, and foggy. Some birds. 13 48 6 112 3 49 29, 20 Variable. Moderate wind, and foggy. Birds, and porpoises. 14 47 19 115 28 17 34 49 29, 36 Westerly. Fresh gales, and hazy. Passed rock-weed. 15 46 23 120 7 51 29, 50 W. N. W. Ditto, and some rain. Many blue peterels. 16 45 12 124 29 54 29, 70
|