The tragedy of the seas; or, Sorrow on the ocean, lake, and river, from shipwreck, plague, fire and famine .. . e, the former by the hair, the latter by the features. Theheads were suspended by a rope to a pole that was stuck upnear the huts of the women, round which they danced everyevening and morning, accompanying their infuriated ges-tures with the most horrid yells. The number of Indians collected amounted to about six-ty ; they were merely residing on the island during the fish-ing season, for their home, as it afterwards turned out, wasat a considerable distance off. Their principal sub
The tragedy of the seas; or, Sorrow on the ocean, lake, and river, from shipwreck, plague, fire and famine .. . e, the former by the hair, the latter by the features. Theheads were suspended by a rope to a pole that was stuck upnear the huts of the women, round which they danced everyevening and morning, accompanying their infuriated ges-tures with the most horrid yells. The number of Indians collected amounted to about six-ty ; they were merely residing on the island during the fish-ing season, for their home, as it afterwards turned out, wasat a considerable distance off. Their principal subsistencewas turtle, and small fish, which they caught with hook andline, and shell fish, which abound on thereefs. The island also produces a smallfruit, like a plum, with a stone in fish is broiled over the ashes of thefire, or boiled in the basin of a largevolute, (Voluta Ethiopica,) which, beinga scarce shell, is of great value to Island of Pullan is covered withlow trees and underwood, and the soilis sandy. In the centre of it is a spring,A Wild Plum. which supplied the whole party with.
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