A Visit to the South Seas in the United States' Ship Vincennes, During the Years 1829 and 1830: Including Scenes in Brazil, Peru, Manilla, the Cape of Good Hope, and St. Helena, Том 1H. Colburn and R. Bentley, 1832 |
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... feet in diameter in the centre , shutting from view the after guns of the main deck battery - usually conspicuous objects in the same cabin in other vessels - with all the array of battle axes and cutlasses , shot boxes and pistols ...
... feet in diameter in the centre , shutting from view the after guns of the main deck battery - usually conspicuous objects in the same cabin in other vessels - with all the array of battle axes and cutlasses , shot boxes and pistols ...
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... feet high , singularly of the form its name indicates , but in- clining over its base southward , at an angle equal to that of the Falling Tower at Pisa . It is entirely naked , except a little tufting of moss and bushes in some of the ...
... feet high , singularly of the form its name indicates , but in- clining over its base southward , at an angle equal to that of the Falling Tower at Pisa . It is entirely naked , except a little tufting of moss and bushes in some of the ...
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... feet high , in the centre of the city . This is an extensive building , and more finely located than that of the emperor , but of heavy and monkish architecture . Near it , on the west , are an- other hill and convent ; and closely ...
... feet high , in the centre of the city . This is an extensive building , and more finely located than that of the emperor , but of heavy and monkish architecture . Near it , on the west , are an- other hill and convent ; and closely ...
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... feet in height , rising in the centre , like a pinnacle against the sky ; and you will have some conception of the magnificence of the scene . At the city the bay is three miles wide . The opposite shore on the north is called Praya ...
... feet in height , rising in the centre , like a pinnacle against the sky ; and you will have some conception of the magnificence of the scene . At the city the bay is three miles wide . The opposite shore on the north is called Praya ...
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... feet , and a high crowned grass hat , sat beside me smoking his cigar ; while four stout , mus- cular negroes , clad in loose drawers only , pulled the oars . The manner of rowing is different from any I have seen . After every stroke ...
... feet , and a high crowned grass hat , sat beside me smoking his cigar ; while four stout , mus- cular negroes , clad in loose drawers only , pulled the oars . The manner of rowing is different from any I have seen . After every stroke ...
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admiration anchor appearance Aracaty Atuas beach beautiful boat Botafogo bread-fruit Callao canoe Captain Finch centre character chief civil closely cloth cocoa-nut Commodore Thompson crew dark dear H deck distance door dress emperor entrance exhibited feet females Flamengo front glen ground groves Guerriere Haapé habitations hand Hapas harbour head hills hundred kind land LETTER light Lima lofty manner mantle ment midshipman miles Moana morning mountains native neat neral ness night Nukuhiva o'clock officers ornaments palace party passing persons Peru Piaroro present principal residence rich Rio de Janeiro rude sail Sandwich Islands scarce scene scenery seated seemed seen shore side sight Society Islands stone street tabu Tahua Taiohae Taipiis tapa Taua throne tion tribe Tudor U. S. Ship Uapou valley Valparaiso various Vincennes walls WASHINGTON ISLANDS whole wild
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