Narrative of the United States Exploring Expedition: During the Years 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842, Vydání 3Lea and Blanchard, 1845 Trade or public edition of Wilkes's narrative of the expedition directed to the general reader. The expedition roved from the southern most tip of South America to the Oregon coast, through the south and north Pacific and Antarctic waters. In the course of the expedition many locations were visited: Brazil, Patagonia, Chile, Peru, Samoa, Fiji, Tahiti, Borneo, the Philippines, Singapore with extended stays at Hawaii, Australia and New Zealand. This and all eds later than 1845 appeared without an atlas. |
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Strana 19
... carrying off the remains of their feast . This movement , I afterwards learnt , was owing to their having received intelligence of the people of Bea having made another attack upon the yam - grounds of the Christians , and carried off a ...
... carrying off the remains of their feast . This movement , I afterwards learnt , was owing to their having received intelligence of the people of Bea having made another attack upon the yam - grounds of the Christians , and carried off a ...
Strana 97
... carried to the mbure , where it is offered to the gods , and is after- wards removed to be cut up and distributed , to be eaten by the people . Women are not allowed to enter the mbure , or to eat human flesh . Human sacrifices are a ...
... carried to the mbure , where it is offered to the gods , and is after- wards removed to be cut up and distributed , to be eaten by the people . Women are not allowed to enter the mbure , or to eat human flesh . Human sacrifices are a ...
Strana 389
... carrying burdens is to suspend them with cords from the ends of a stick ; this is laid across the shoulders , and so ac- customed are they to carry the load in this manner , that they will sometimes increase the weight by adding a heavy ...
... carrying burdens is to suspend them with cords from the ends of a stick ; this is laid across the shoulders , and so ac- customed are they to carry the load in this manner , that they will sometimes increase the weight by adding a heavy ...
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