Rovings in the Pacific, from 1837 to 1849: With a Glance at California, Volumes 1-2 |
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admiral amongst anchor appearance arms arrived ashore Bay of Islands beach boat Borabora Bow Island called canoe Captain Chain Island chart chief cocoa-nut trees commenced coral crew deck divers diving engaged English entrance escape excited favourable fear feet fellows fire flag French frigate gale George Paulet governor hands harbour head Hereheretue houses Huaheine Isles islets labour lagoon land latitude leaving Leeward Islands longitude Louis Philippe Macao miles missionaries Moorea morning mountains muskets natives nearly never night north-west observed Papeeti party passage passed Paumutu Pitcairn's Island Pomare Pomare's Port Port Nicholson possession Pritchard proceedings queen Raiatea Rapa received reef residents river rock Rotumah round sailed Sandwich Islands scarcely schooner seen shell ship shore side sight steamer Tahaa Tahiti Tahitian Tapoa thing tion told Valparaiso vessel weather whale whilst wind wreck Zealand
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Page 333 - This England never did, (nor never shall,) Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror, But when it first did help to wound itself. Now these her princes are come home again, Come the three corners of the world in arms, And we shall shock them : Nought shall make us rue, If England to itself do rest but true.
Page 314 - Foreigners who are, or who may hereafter become bona fide residents of this State, shall enjoy the same rights in respect to the possession, enjoyment, and inheritance of property, as native born citizens.
Page 266 - Thy spirit, Independence ! let me share, Lord of the lion heart and eagle eye ! Thy steps I follow 'with my bosom bare, Nor heed the storm that howls along the sky.
Page 45 - She was a form of life and light, That, seen, became a part of sight; And rose where'er I turn'd mine eye, The morning-star of memory ! " Yes, love indeed is light from heaven ; A spark of that immortal fire With angels shared, by Alia given, To lift from earth our low desire.
Page xiii - Adieu, adieu ! my native shore Fades o'er the waters blue ; The night-winds sigh, the breakers roar, And shrieks the wild sea-mew. Yon sun that sets upon the sea We follow in his flight ; Farewell awhile to him and thee, My native Land — Good night...
Page 242 - ... omitting even the more distant ones of Wallis' Island, Futuna, Nieuafou, Nieuatobutabu, as well as the three nearer groups of Tongatabu, Vavao and Hapai." Atoll dwellers in particular seem to have been continually on the move. Lucatt (Lucett) notes85 that "the inhabitants of nearly all the Paumotu Islands are of roving migratory habits; they wander from island to island in their large double canoes, so that at times an island will appear to be thickly peopled, and at others scarcely an individual...
Page 280 - Melville is a bottle of embrocation, as the man complained of pains in his limbs : but the doctor believing him to be an impostor, which by the way I think he has clearly shown himself to have been, paid no further heed to his complaints.
Page 277 - Since the above entry was made in my journal, two works have appeared, Typee and Omoo, purporting to have been written by Herman Melville. By his own showing, Herman Melville has been a most reckless loafer, caring not a pin what enterprises were ruined so long as he could indulge the gratification of his own propensities. Gratitude for his escape, and horror at the reminiscences of the hardships to which he had been exposed, impel him to acknowledge the kind manner he was received on board the Julia*...
Page 167 - Gibbon's Decline and fall, vol. vi. p. 320. ODE TO NAPOLEON BUONAPARTE. 1. 1 1s done — but yesterday a King ! And arm'd with Kings to strive — And now thou art a nameless thing So abject — yet alive ! Is this the man of thousand thrones, Who strew'd our Earth with hostile bones ? And can he thus survive ? Since he, miscall'd the Morning Star, Nor man nor fiend hath fallen so far.
Page xiii - ADIEU, adieu! my native shore Fades o'er the waters blue ; The Night- winds sigh, the breakers roar, And shrieks the wild seamew. Yon Sun that sets upon the sea We follow in his flight ; Farewell awhile to him and thee, My native Land — Good Night ! 2.