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 . /. ( ^ / V <y /<j ROUND THE WORLD. 399 when the commanding officer, arifing from hisfeat, and putting on a garment of dogs fkin,ufed to diredt them how to proceed. Whenthey were too far from the (hip to reach it eitherwith ftone or lance, they cried out, Haromaiyharomai, harre uta a patoo-patoo cge.— Come•* to us, come on fhore, and we will kill you* all with our patoo-patoos. During thefemenaces they approached the Ihip, till theycame along-fide, talking peaceably at intervals,and anfwering whatever queftions they were aflc-ed. Then again their threats were renewed, till,imagining the failors were afraid of them, theybegan the war-fong and dance—an engagementalways followed, and fometimes continued tillthe firing of fmall fhot repulfed them ; at others,only till they had fatiated their vengeance bythrowing a few ftones on board the fhip. In the war-dance, their motions are nume-rous, their limbs are diftorted, and their facesare agitated. Their tongue hangs out of theirmouths to a vaft length, a
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