An historical account of all the voyages round the world : performed by English navigators ; including those lately undertaken by order of His present Majesty ; the whole faithfully extracted from the journals of the voyagers ; Drake, undertaken in 1577-80 ; Cavendish, 1586-88 ; Cowley, 1683-86 ; Dampier, 1689-96 ; Cooke, 1708-11 ; Rogers, 1708-11 ; Clipperton and Shelvocke, 1719-22 ; Anson, undertaken in 1740-44 ; Byron, 1764-66 ; Wallis, 1766-68 ; Carteret, 1766-69 ; and Cook, 1768-71 ; together with that of Sydney Parkinson ..and the voyage of MonsBougainville ..to which is added, an append
An historical account of all the voyages round the world : performed by English navigators ; including those lately undertaken by order of His present Majesty ; the whole faithfully extracted from the journals of the voyagers ; Drake, undertaken in 1577-80 ; Cavendish, 1586-88 ; Cowley, 1683-86 ; Dampier, 1689-96 ; Cooke, 1708-11 ; Rogers, 1708-11 ; Clipperton and Shelvocke, 1719-22 ; Anson, undertaken in 1740-44 ; Byron, 1764-66 ; Wallis, 1766-68 ; Carteret, 1766-69 ; and Cook, 1768-71 ; together with that of Sydney Parkinson ..and the voyage of MonsBougainville ..to which is added, an appendix ; containing the journal of a voyage to the North pole, by the HonCommodore Phipps, and Captain Lutwidge . YUf Of a ,n€W A {-{f/Yi/i^/Z/fn/ (7fiu>UJ^/i/^ Ja/aoff<<v- ROUND THE WORLD. 327 which are performed with the Patoo Patoo, andthe lance. The former has already been men-tioned, and is ufed as a battle-axe ; the latter isten or twelve feet in length, made of extremehard wood, and fharpened at each end. A flakewas fubftituted for their old warriors fuppofedenemy ; he firft attacked him with his lance,when, having pierced him, the Patoo Patoo wasufed to demolifh his head, and the force withwhich he ftruck would at one blow have fplitany mans fl^uU. This mode of fighting in-duced the gentlemen to believe no quarter wasever given here in war. The natives in thispart are not very numerous -, they are tolerablywell fhaped, but lean and tall; their faces re-femble thofe of Europeans; their nofes areaquelinej their eyes dark coloured ; their hairis black, which is tied up on the top of theirheads, and their beards are of a moderate tataovt^ing is done very curioufly in v
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