 | 1785 - 456 pages
...never faw any thing worn in them. Upon fuch ornaments as they had, they fee fo great a value, that they would never part with the leaft article for any...coveted more, they would have been lefs honeft ; for whea we refufed to give them a turtle, they were enraged, and attempted to take it by force, and we... | |
 | William Fordyce Mavor - 1813 - 368 pages
...as our beads and ribbons were ornaments of the same kind, but of a more regular form and more showy materials. They had indeed no idea of traffic, nor...the things that we gave them ; but never appeared to understand our signs when we required a return. The same indifference which prevented them from buying... | |
 | General history - 1814 - 798 pages
...as our bead* and ribbons were ornaments of the same kind, but of a more regular uirin and more showy materials. They had indeed no idea of traffic, nor...the things that we gave them ; but never appeared to understand our signs when we required a return. The same indifference which prevented them from buying... | |
 | Robert Kerr - 1815 - 550 pages
...as our beads and ribbons were ornaments of the same kind, but of a more regular form and more showy materials. They had indeed no idea of traffic, nor...the things that we gave them ; but never appeared to understand our signs when we required a return. The same indifference which prevented them from buying... | |
 | Robert Kerr - 1815 - 534 pages
...ornaments of the same kind, but of a more re^tim form and more showy materials. They had indeed) no kin of traffic, nor could we communicate any to them :...the things that we gave them ; but never appeared to understand our signs when we required a return. The same indifference which prevented them from buying... | |
 | Robert Kerr - 1824 - 528 pages
...as our beads and ribbons were ornaments of the same kind, but of a more regular form and more showy materials. They had indeed no idea of traffic, nor...the things that we gave them ; but never appeared to understand our signs when we required a return. The same indi (Terence which prevented them from buying... | |
 | James Cook - 1842 - 636 pages
...as our beads and ribbons were ornaments of the same kind, but of a more regular form and more showy materials. They had, indeed, no idea of traffic, nor...the things that we gave them, but never appeared to understand our signs when we required a return. The same indifference which prevented them from buying... | |
 | James Cook - 1842 - 636 pages
...as our beads and ribbons were ornaments of the same kind, but of a more regular form and more showy materials. They had, indeed, no idea of traffic, nor...could we communicate any to them : they received the timings timat we gave timem, but never appeared to understand our signs when we required a return.... | |
 | Australian Museum - 1913 - 424 pages
...Natives, ia made to say : — " They had indeed no idea of traffic, nor could we communicate with any of them — they received the things that we gave them, but never appeared to understand our signs when we required a return." 4. For purposes of trade and barter it may be said... | |
 | Sir Philip James Hamilton GRIERSON - 1903 - 138 pages
...the stolen articles at the other. Cook4 tells us of the Australians at Endeavour Bay that " they had no idea of traffic, nor could we communicate any to...the things that we gave them, but never appeared to understand our signs when we required a return. The same indifference, which prevented them from buying... | |
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Upon such ornaments as they had, they set so great a value, that they would never part with the least article for any thing we could offer; which was the more extraordinary as our beads and ribbons were ornaments of the same kind, but of a more regular... 
