. A voyage round the world in the years 1785, 1786, 1787 and 1788 [microform]. Boussole (Frigate); Astrolabe (Frigate); Boussole (Frégate); Astrolabe (Frégate); Voyages around the world; Scientific expeditions; Voyages autour du monde; Expéditions scientifiques. !- â ) 'U 14^ LA PEROUSE S VOYAGE i4. Mm. M^. ., natives of the Friendly I (lands would have been ut- terly unable to wield. The cuftom of cutting off two joints of the litde finger is as general among thefe people as at Cocoa and Traitors iflands; while that mark of grief for the lofs of a parent or a friend is utterly unknown at t
. A voyage round the world in the years 1785, 1786, 1787 and 1788 [microform]. Boussole (Frigate); Astrolabe (Frigate); Boussole (Frégate); Astrolabe (Frégate); Voyages around the world; Scientific expeditions; Voyages autour du monde; Expéditions scientifiques. !- â ) 'U 14^ LA PEROUSE S VOYAGE i4. Mm. M^. ., natives of the Friendly I (lands would have been ut- terly unable to wield. The cuftom of cutting off two joints of the litde finger is as general among thefe people as at Cocoa and Traitors iflands; while that mark of grief for the lofs of a parent or a friend is utterly unknown at the Navigators Iflands. I know that captain Cook confidercd Cocoa and Traitors Iflands as be- longing to the Friendly archipelago; and this opi- nion he fupported by the report of Poulaho, who was acquainted with the trade that captain Wallis had carried on in thofe two iflands, and who even poflfeflfed in his treafury, before captain Cook's ar- rival, feveral bits of iron, proceeding from the ex- changes made by the Dolphin frigate with the in- habitants of the Ifle of Traitors. I thought, on the contrary, that thofe two iflands were comprifed in the ten enumerated by the inhabitants of Maouna, becaufe I found them precifely in the point of the compafs indicated by them, and farther eafl: than captain Wallis had laid them down; and I was of opinion that they might form with Quirot*s Ifland of the Handfome Nation, the complete group of the finefl: and largeft archipelago of the South Sea; but I confefs that the natives of Cocoa and Trai- tors iflands have a much flironger refemblance in flature and external forms to the inhabitants of the Friendly Iflands, than to thofe of the Ifles of Navi- gators,. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original La Pérouse, Jean François de Galaup, comte de, 17
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