 | William Fordyce Mavor - Discoveries in geography - 1809 - 504 pages
...commercial views, appear to me of a degree of importance sufficient to call for the attention of the publie. The rage with which our seamen were possessed to return...time, was not far short of mutiny ; and I must own, 1 could not help indulging myself in a project, which the disappointment we had suffered, in being... | |
 | Robert Kerr - 1816 - 562 pages
...to ue of a degree of importance sufficient to call for the attention of the public. , , -ij • •: The rage with which our seamen were possessed to return...time was not far short of mutiny $ and I must own, 1 could not help indulging myself in a project, which the disappointment we had suffered, in being... | |
 | General history - 1824 - 554 pages
...public. The rage with which qur seamen were possessed to return to Cook's river, and by another eargo of skins to make their fortunes, at one time was not far short of mutiny ; and 1 must own, I could not help indulging myself in S project, which the disappointment \ve baa su$eredj... | |
 | Andrew Kippis - Voyages around the world - 1826 - 464 pages
...out, or had been given away or sold at Kamtschatka. In consequence hereof, the rage with which the seamen were possessed to return to Cook's River, and...by another cargo of skins to make their fortunes, was, at one time, not far short of mutiny. The numerous voyages that have since been undertaken tor... | |
 | Hubert Howe Bancroft - Northwest Coast of North America - 1884 - 768 pages
...yet the remnant was sold for about ten thousand dollars. Little wonder that, as Captain King says, "the rage with which our seamen were possessed to...another cargo of skins, to make their fortunes, at one tune, was not far short of mutiny; and I must own, I could not help indulging myself in a project,"... | |
 | Hubert Howe Bancroft - British Columbia - 1886 - 784 pages
...yet the remnant was sold for about ten thousand dollars. Little wonder that, as Captain King says, "the rage with which our seamen were possessed to...time, was not far short of mutiny; and I must own, I colild not help indulging myself in a project," which was to have the work of exploration undertaken... | |
 | James Cook - Hawaii - 1904 - 454 pages
...Americans were spoiled and worn out, or had been given away and otherwise disposed of in Kamtschatka. The rage with which our seamen were possessed to return to Cook's River, and buy another cargo of skins to make their fortunes at one time was not far short of mutiny. The barter... | |
 | Bernard De Voto, Bernard Augustine De Voto - Biography & Autobiography - 1998 - 694 pages
...certainly disposed of at much less than their value, fetched two thousand pounds sterling in China goods. "The rage with which our seamen were possessed to return to Cook's River and, by another cargo of furs to make their fortune at one time, was not far short of mutiny." So wrote James King, who was... | |
 | James Cook - Australia - 1999 - 494 pages
...Americans were spoiled and worn out, or had been given away and otherwise disposed of in Kamtschatka. The rage with which our seamen were possessed to return...fortunes at one time, was not far short of mutiny. The barter which had been carrying on with the Chinese for our sea-otter skins, had produced a very... | |
 | Frederik L. Schodt - Biography & Autobiography - 2003 - 436 pages
...would write, "The rage with which our seamen were possessed to return to Cook Inlet [in Alaska] and buy another cargo of skins to make their fortunes, at...And, I must own, I could not help indulging myself with the thought of the project."4 Riches of the Pacific Northwest The exceptionally soft and fine... | |
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The rage with which our seamen were possessed to return to Cook's River, and, by another cargo of skins, to make their fortunes, at one time, was not far from mutiny..."6 From this accidental origin sprang the marine fur trade between China and the northwest... 
