 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1825 - 582 pages
...what took place ; it is highly characteristic of the brutal and ferocious conduct of these savages. 1 The man who had slain her father, having cut off his head, and preserved it by a process peculiar to these islanders, took it out of a basket where it had hitherto been concealed,... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - Adventure and adventurers - 1830 - 444 pages
...shore till the evening ; " and as we were preparing to return to the ship," continues Captain Cruise, " we were drawn to that part of the beach where the...father, having cut off his head, and preserved it by a process peculiar to these islanders, took , it out of a basket, where it had hitherto been concealed,... | |
 | Richard Alexander Cruise - Māori (New Zealand people) - 1921 - 170 pages
...extraordinary scenes that we witnessed detained us in the neighbourhood of Te Puna until evening; and, as we were preparing to return to the ship, we were...father, having cut off his head, and preserved it by a process peculiar to these islanders, took it out of a basket where it had hitherto been concealed,... | |
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Tippoona until evening ; and, as we were preparing to return to the ship, we were drawn to that part of the beach where the prisoners were, by the most doleful cries and lamentations. Here was the interesting young slave in a situation that ought to have... 
