 | William Fordyce Mavor - Discoveries in geography - 1796 - 380 pages
...perfectly refembled thofe other iflanders. At fir It, on their entering the fhip, they endeavoured to fteal every thing they came near; or rather to take it openly, as what we either fhould not refent, or not hinder. We toon convinced thr*m of their miftake; and if they, after fome... | |
 | William Fordyce Mavor - Africa - 1802 - 388 pages
...perfectly resembled those other islanders. At first, on their entering the ship, they endeavoured to steal every thing they came near; or rather to take it openly,...to themselves whatever they took a fancy to, it was beCAPTAIN COOK. 163 cause they found that we kept a watchful eye over them. At nine, o'clock, being... | |
 | Robert Kerr - 1815 - 546 pages
...endeavoured tp steal every thing they came near, or rather to 152 Modem Circumnavigations. PABT m. BOOK in. to take it openly, as what we either should not resent,...fancy to, it was because they found that we kept a watchful eye over them. At nine o'clock, being pretty near the shore, I sent three armed boats, under... | |
 | Robert Kerr - Explorers - 1824 - 526 pages
...perfectly resembled uiose other islanders. At first, on their entering the ship, they endeavoured to steal every thing they came near, or rather to take it openly,...fancy to, it was because they found that we kept a watchful eye over them. At nine o'clock, being pretty near the shore, I sent three armed boats, under... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 662 pages
...resemble the other islanders we had visited. At first on their entering the ship they endeavoured to steal every thing they came near, or rather to take it openly,...what we either should not resent, or not hinder." (January 1778.) in their commercial intercourse, never once attempting to cheat us either ashore, or... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 650 pages
...resemble the other islanders we had visited. At first on their entering the ship they endeavoured to steal every thing they came near, or rather to take it openly, as ivhat ice eitlier should not resent, or not hinder." (January 1778.) in their commercial intercourse,... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 654 pages
...resemble the other islanders we had visited. At first on their entering the ship they endeavoured to steal every thing they came near, or rather to take it openly, as u-hat we either should not resent, or not hinder." (January 1778.) in their commercial intercourse,... | |
 | Oxford univ, prize essays - 1836 - 350 pages
...Brit. r Captain Cook remarks of the Sandwich islanders, " They at first endeavoured to steal everything they came near, or rather to take it openly, as what we either should not resent, or not hinder." " They never once attempted to cheat us. Some of them, indeed, at first betrayed a thievish disposition... | |
 | Thomas Cogswell Upham - Intellect - 1841 - 512 pages
...correctness of this view. " At first," he says, " on entering the ship, they endeavoured to steal everything they came near, or, rather, to take it openly, as what we either should not resent or not hinder." In another place he says, in explanation of their conduct, " they thought they had a right to everything... | |
 | Thomas Cogswell Upham - Intellect - 1841 - 538 pages
...correctness of this view. " At first," he says, " on entering the ship, they endeavoured to steal everything they came near, or rather to take it openly, as what we either should not resent or not hinder." In another place he says, in explanation of their conduct, " they thought they had a right to everything... | |
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At first, on their entering the ship, they endeavoured to steal everything they came near ; or rather to take it openly, as what we either should not resent, or not hinder. 
