 | William Fordyce Mavor - Discoveries in geography - 1796 - 712 pages
...time, became lefs active in appropriating to themfelves whatever they took a fancy to, it was becaufe they found that we kept a watchful eye over them. At nine o'clock, being pretty near the fhore, I fent three armed boats, under the command of Lieutenant Williamfon, to look for a landingplace,... | |
 | William Fordyce Mavor - Discoveries in geography - 1796 - 380 pages
...thofe other iflanders. At fir It, on their entering the fhip, they endeavoured to fteal every thing they came near; or rather to take it openly, as what we either fhould not refent, or not hinder. We toon convinced thr*m of their miftake; and if they, after fome... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 662 pages
...islanders we had visited. At first on their entering the ship they endeavoured to steal every thing they came near, or rather to take it openly, as what we either should not resent, or not hinder." (January 1778.) in their commercial intercourse, never once attempting to cheat us either ashore, or... | |
 | English essays - 1836 - 354 pages
...him." Prel. Diss. to Zncycl. Brit. r Captain Cook remarks of the Sandwich islanders, " They at first endeavoured to steal everything they came near, or...what we either should not resent, or not hinder." " They never once attempted to cheat us. Some of them, indeed, at first betrayed a thievish disposition... | |
 | Oxford univ, prize essays - 1836 - 350 pages
...him." Prel. Diss. to Encycl. Brit. r Captain Cook remarks of the Sandwich islanders, " They at first endeavoured to steal everything they came near, or...what we either should not resent, or not hinder." " They never once attempted to cheat us. Some of them, indeed, at first betrayed a thievish disposition... | |
 | Thomas Cogswell Upham - Intellect - 1837 - 510 pages
...correctness of this view. " At first, (he says,) on entering the ship, they endeavored to steal every thing they came near, or rather to take it openly, as what we either should not resen!. or not hinder." In another place he says, in explanation of their conduct, " they thought they... | |
 | Thomas Cogswell Upham - Intellect - 1841 - 538 pages
...we see evidence in the narration itself of the correctness of this view. " At first," he says, " on entering the ship, they endeavoured to steal everything...as what we either should not resent or not hinder." In another place he says, in explanation of their conduct, " they thought they had a right to everything... | |
 | Thomas Cogswell Upham - Intellect - 1841 - 512 pages
...we see evidence in the narration itself of the correctness of this view. " At first," he says, " on entering the ship, they endeavoured to steal everything...as what we either should not resent or not hinder." In another place he says, in explanation of their conduct, " they thought they had a right to everything... | |
 | Thomas Cogswell Upham - Intellect - 1842 - 516 pages
...we see evidence in the narration itself of the correctness of this view. " At first," he says, " on entering the ship, they endeavoured to steal everything...as what we either should not resent or not hinder." In another place he says, in explanation of their conduct, " they thought they had a right to everything... | |
 | Thomas Cogswell Upham - Intellect - 1845 - 502 pages
...first," he says, " on entering the ship, they endeavoured to steal everything they came near, or ratlier to take it openly, as what we either should not resent or not hinder." In another place he says, in explanation of their conduct, " they thought they had a right to everything... | |
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And further, in looking at Captain Cook's account a little more minutely, we see evidence in the narration itself of the correctness of this view. " At first," he says, " on entering the ship, they endeavoured to steal everything they came near, or rather... 
