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

It is observable that a dead Carkase doth not easily rot or consume; for it has been found, that a man buried ten years before, still remained in his perfect shape and dress; and they could see by the Cross that was stuck upon his Grave, how long he had been buried. These Houses are now from year to year destroyed and burnt. This year were yet standing several Houses, like a little Village, some whereof were then burnt. Over-against Schmerenburg were also several Houses standing, and a Kettle

A762    Beagle Library:     Dampier, William. 1697. A new voyage round the world. London: James Knapton.   Text

help us along: And for 3 days before we parted, we sifted so much Flower as we could well carry, and rubb'd up 20 or 30 pound of Chocolate with Sugar to sweeten it; these things and a Kettle the Slaves carried also on their backs after we landed. And because there were some who designed to go with us that we knew were not well able to march, we gave out, that if any man faultred in the Journey over Land he must expect to be shot to death; for we knew that the Spaniards would soon be after us

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

Point of the Kettle. R. de Copiapo, Copiapo River. Nord de l'aimant, The North Point of the Compass. Nord du Monde, The true North Point. Puerto del Yngles, The Englishman's Port. Planta del Morro de Copiapo, The Plan of the Headland of Copiapo. Ysleta, A small Island. Echelle d' une lieu marine, A Scale of a Sea League. Morro de Copiapo N. N. E. The Headland of Copiapo N. N. E. Vu de reconnoissance, The View to know the Port by. [page] 14

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

fish; the whole inside is hung with skins, and their elevated bed-places are covered with the finest furrs; and the entrance is contrived in a convenient and ingenious manner. Their method of dressing victuals, over a lamp of train-oil, in a kettle of pot-stone; and in a word, all their contrivances are proofs of their skill and ingenuity; their greater happiness, and their enjoyment of the lowest degree of conveniencies. The summer they pass in neat and convenient tents, re [page] 31

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 general, the handsomest of the New Zealand race I had ever met with. By this time more than two-thirds of the inhabitants of the Sound had settled themselves about us. Great numbers of them daily frequented the ships, and the encampment on shore: but the latter became, by far, the most favourite place of resort, while our people there were melting some seal blubber. No Greenlander was ever fonder of train-oil, than our friends here seemed to be. They relished the very skimmings of the kettle

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. October. raw hides, or leather being almost continually steeped in it. Behind and over the trench, are placed the few effects they are possessed of; such as their clothing, mats, and skins. Their household furniture consists of bowls, spoons, buckets, piggins or cans, matted baskets, and perhaps a Russian kettle or pot. All these utensils are very neatly made, and well formed; and yet we saw no other tools among them but the knife and the hatchet; that is, a small flat piece of iron

A719.04    Beagle Library:     Thunberg, Carl Peter. 1795-6. Travels in Europe, Africa and Asia, performed between the years 1770 and 1779. 4 vols. London: W. Richardson and J. Egerton. vol. 4.   Text

there out of wine-glasses before meals, to provoke an appetite, on which occasions the white sacki is generally preferred, which is less disgusting to the taste. Tea is drank throughout the whole country, for the purpose of quenching thirst; for which reason they keep in every house, and more especially in every inn, a kettle upon the fire all day long, with boiling water and ground tea; from this the brown decoction is poured out for immediate use, and another kettle, filled with cold water

A719.02    Beagle Library:     Thunberg, Carl Peter. 1795-6. Travels in Europe, Africa and Asia, performed between the years 1770 and 1779. 4 vols. London: W. Richardson and J. Egerton. vol. 2.   Text

On the 22d, we arrived at Saldahna Bay, which has many islands and dangerous shoals, some of which have only three fathom water. On Foundling Island, train oil is prepared from seals in earthen pans, in which it is first exposed to the heat of the sun to evaporate. After this, it is boiled in a kettle, at first with wood, and then with such remains of the blubber as will yield no more oil. There are several islands lying near this harbour, such as Fundling Eyland, Taxen Eyland, Jutland

A719.02    Beagle Library:     Thunberg, Carl Peter. 1795-6. Travels in Europe, Africa and Asia, performed between the years 1770 and 1779. 4 vols. London: W. Richardson and J. Egerton. vol. 2.   Text

Is not the water boiled yet? jer bulong suda massak? Not yet, but it will boil immediately. Bulong, tappe sabantar nanti mediri. Who is to blame, that I have no coffee yet? Sappa punje sala, jang betta bulong dappat koffi? The cook is to blame. Tukkan massak punje sala itu. How so? Manappa? Because he let the kettle with the water overset. Darri dia suda kria jatu itu ketel dengan ajer. How did that happen? Bigimanna itu suda jadi? I did not see it. Kitta trada leat. How do you know it then

A719.02    Beagle Library:     Thunberg, Carl Peter. 1795-6. Travels in Europe, Africa and Asia, performed between the years 1770 and 1779. 4 vols. London: W. Richardson and J. Egerton. vol. 2.   Text

contest was repeated several times, with music, accompanied by a kettle-drum, and beating of brass cymbals. The time now approached when the ships were to sail for Japan, And, although M. RADERMACHER, who had conceived a high degree of friend [page] 31

A719.03    Beagle Library:     Thunberg, Carl Peter. 1795-6. Travels in Europe, Africa and Asia, performed between the years 1770 and 1779. 4 vols. London: W. Richardson and J. Egerton. vol. 3.   Text

windows nor the doors were over and above close. Our fires were made with charcoal, which was brought from the town in a large copperkettle with a broad rim; and this kettle being placed in the middle of the floor, warmed the whole room for several hours together. Of the Europeans that remain here, the officers, such as the secretary, doctor, and writers, have each two or three handsome rooms, besides the storehouse, which they occupy without paying for them, but ornament them themselves with

A719.04    Beagle Library:     Thunberg, Carl Peter. 1795-6. Travels in Europe, Africa and Asia, performed between the years 1770 and 1779. 4 vols. London: W. Richardson and J. Egerton. vol. 4.   Text

, but is warmed in a common tea-kettle, from which it is poured out into flat tea-cups, made of lackered wood, and in this manner it is drank quite warm, which in a very short time heats and inebriates them; but the whole intoxication vanishes in a few minutes, and is generally succeeded by a disagreeable head-ach. To Batavia, sacki is imported as an article of commerce; but it is also drank [page] 4

A719.04    Beagle Library:     Thunberg, Carl Peter. 1795-6. Travels in Europe, Africa and Asia, performed between the years 1770 and 1779. 4 vols. London: W. Richardson and J. Egerton. vol. 4.   Text

after dinner. When several persons eat in company together, they all salute each other with a low bow, before they begin to eat. The ladies do not eat with the men, but by themselves. Between each dish, they drink warm sacki, or rice-beer, which is poured out of a tea-kettle into shallow tea-saucers, made of lackered wood; and during this, they sometimes eat a quarter of an egg, boiled hard, and very frequently they drink at the same time to somebody's health. In general they eat three times a day

A801.02    Beagle Library:     La Pérouse, Jean François de Galaup de. 1798-9. A voyage round the world performed in the years 1785, 1786, 1787, and 1788. 3 vols., atlas. London: T. Johnson. vol. 2.   Text

they cook their fish ate never washed; they serve them for kettle, dish, and plate; as these vessels cannot bear the fire, they make the water boil with red hot flint stones, which are renewed at intervals till the victuals are quite ready. They are also acquainted with the method of roasting, which differs little or nothing from that of soldiers in a camp. It is probable, that we may only have seen a small part of these people, who in all likelihood inhabit a considerable part of the seashore

A801.02    Beagle Library:     La Pérouse, Jean François de Galaup de. 1798-9. A voyage round the world performed in the years 1785, 1786, 1787, and 1788. 3 vols., atlas. London: T. Johnson. vol. 2.   Text

subsistence; every master of a canoe has his kettle, his trivet, his steel to strike fire with, and his tinder. In whatever place they stop, the cabin is erected, the fish speared, and the victuals dressed within an hour after they land. This navigation is as safe as that of the canal of Languedoc; they perform their voyage in a stated number of days, and every evening stop at the same creeks, and near the same rivulets. They marked upon our chart the number of their resting places from Cape

A925.1    Beagle Library:     Burney, James. 1803-17. Chronological history of the voyages and discoveries in the South Sea or Pacific Ocean. 5 vols. London: printed by Luke Hansard, near Lincoln's-Inn Fields, and sold by G. and W. Nicol, bookseller to His Majesty, Pall-Mall, G. and J. Robinson, Paternoster-Row, J. Robson, New Bond-Street, T. Payne, Mew's-Gate, and Cadell and Davies, in the Strand. Volume 1 (1803)   Text

skins of some animal neatly sewed together. A kettle of pottage was made with biscuit for them, sufficient to have satisfied twenty Spaniards, which six Indians entirely eat up. When they had finished their meal, and satisfied their curiosity, they desired to go, and a boat carried them to the shore. * Lopez de Gomara. F [page] 3

A925.4    Beagle Library:     Burney, James. 1803-17. Chronological history of the voyages and discoveries in the South Sea or Pacific Ocean. 5 vols. London: printed by Luke Hansard, near Lincoln's-Inn Fields, and sold by G. and W. Nicol, bookseller to His Majesty, Pall-Mall, G. and J. Robinson, Paternoster-Row, J. Robson, New Bond-Street, T. Payne, Mew's-Gate, and Cadell and Davies, in the Strand. Volume 4 (1816)   Text

CHAP. XX. The Cygnet. Her Passage across the Pacific Ocean. At the Ladrones. At Mindanao. CHAP. 20. 1686. March. The Cygnet quits the American Coast. Large flight of Birds. Lat. 13 N. Long 180 . MARCH the 31st, they sailed from the American coast, steering at first SW, and afterwards more Westerly till they were in latitude 13 N, in which parallel they kept. 'The kettle was boiled but onee a day,' says Dampier, 'and there was no occasion to call the men to victuals. All hands came up to see

A925.4    Beagle Library:     Burney, James. 1803-17. Chronological history of the voyages and discoveries in the South Sea or Pacific Ocean. 5 vols. London: printed by Luke Hansard, near Lincoln's-Inn Fields, and sold by G. and W. Nicol, bookseller to His Majesty, Pall-Mall, G. and J. Robinson, Paternoster-Row, J. Robson, New Bond-Street, T. Payne, Mew's-Gate, and Cadell and Davies, in the Strand. Volume 4 (1816)   Text

.' 'He had with him a firelock, a hatchet, a knife, a kettle, and other things, with which he provided for himself very well as to food and lodging: but for the first eight months he had much ado to bear up against melancholy. He built two huts which he covered with long grass and lined with goats' skins. In one he dressed his victuals; in the other he slept. He got fire by rubbing two pieces of pimento wood together. He employed himself much in singing psalms and praying. [page] 46

A556.1    Beagle Library:     Juan y Santacilla, Jorge and Ulloa, Antonio de. 1806. A voyage to South America...undertaken...by G. Juan and A. de Ulloa, Captains of the Spanish Navy. translated by John Adams. 4th ed. London: John Stockdale. [vol. 1 only, inscribed "Robt FitzRoy to Charles Darwin"] CUL-DAR.LIB.330 vol. 1.   Text   Image

, called la Caldera, or the kettle, having four fathom and a half water; and is a very proper place for careening ships and vessels, as, besides its depth, it is perfectly defended from all winds. In order to go into it, you must keep pretty close to the western shore till about a third part of the breadth of the entrance, where you will have five fathom water (whilst on the eastern side of the same entrance there is not above two or three feet), and then steer directly towards the bottom of the bay

A854.01    Beagle Library:     Southey, Robert. 1810-19. History of Brazil. 3 vols. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme. Volume 1.   Text

the Guarani converts moulder sooner than those of the Spaniards. Both these statements are to be received with some suspicion, for Oviedo produces the thick skull as a proof of stupidity, and Azara deduces from the ill-compacted bones an argument for the inferiority of the species. 37. They did not recollect that an iron cap was harder, p. 142.] The helmet or iron hat had another great recommendation, .. it could be used as a kettle; the discoverers sometimes boiled in them the herbs which they

A6566.11    Book:     Kerr, Robert. 1811-1824. A general history and collection of voyages and travels, arranged in systematic order: forming a complete history of the origin and progress of navigation, discovery and commerce, by sea and land, from the earliest ages to the present times. 18 vols. London: W. Blackwood and T. Cadell.   Text

, and other vermin. We could not afford to boil the kettle once in the whole passage with fresh water, so that the crew became reduced to a very melancholy state by scurvy and other distempers. The sickness increased upon us every day, so that we once buried two in one day, the armourer and carpenter's, mate, besides whom the carpenter, gunner, and several others died, together with some of our best negroes. The greatest part of my remaining people were disabled, and our ship very leaky; and to

A749    Beagle Library:     Buch, Leopold von. 1813. Travels through Norway and Lapland during the years 1806, 1807 and 1808. Translated by John Black. With notes by R. Jameson. London: Henry Colburn.   Text

it with teeth and fingers, are almost incredible. In the meantime the broth remains in the kettle, and is boiled up with thick rein-deer milk, with rye or oatmeal, and sometimes, though seldom, with a little salt. This broth is then distributed, and devoured with the same hungry avidity. The sea Laplander, on the other hand, has only fish, or fish livers with train-oil, and never has either the means or opportunity of preparing such costly soups. The former not only relishes his flesh, but

A774.01    Beagle Library:     Flinders, Matthew. 1814. A voyage to Terra Australis undertaken for the purpose of completing the discovery of that vast country, and prosecuted in the years 1801, 1802, and 1805 in His Majesty's ship the Investigator. 2 vols. London: G. and W. Nicol. vol. 1.   Text

seven convicts. It was impossible to take them all into the boat; therefore to five, whom he set upon the main land, he gave a musket, half his ammunition, some hooks and lines, a light cooking kettle, and directions how to proceed in their course toward Port Jackson. The remaining two, one of whom was old and the other diseased, he took into the boat with the consent of the crew, who readily agreed to divide the daily bannock into nine with them. He then bore away, with a fresh wind at west

A710.02    Beagle Library:     Mariner, William. 1817. An account of the natives of the Tonga Islands in the South Pacific Ocean. 2 vols. London: printed for the author. vol. 2.   Text

present tense; in the second person singular, it makes goo. Go a-loa. Heretofore; formerly; a long time ago. Go i. Blind; blindness. Go li. A dog. Go li fafi'ne. A bitch. Goo'lo. A cauldron; a kettle. Goo'm . A mouse; a rat. Goom la. The sweet potatoe. [page break

A845    Beagle Library:     Abel, Clarke. 1818. Narrative of a journey in the interior of China, and of a voyage to and from that country in the years 1816 and 1817, containing an account of the most interesting transactions of Lord Amherst's embassy to the Court of Pekin, and observations on the countries which it visited. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown.   Text

small kettle over a basin of boiling water, and drunk from small porcelain cups, not much larger than a thimble. Having remained as long as we wished, I proposed rejoining our companions; but on rising, we were rudely, the Chinese would say politely, replaced on our seats, and now found that our boats were not in sight. The vessel in which we were, had moved from the shore without our knowledge, and was now very far ahead of the barges of the Embassy. It was eight o'clock, and very dark. I began to