 But if I had followed the advice of all our pretended friends, I might have extirpated the whole race ; for the people of each hamlet or village, by turns, applied to me to destroy the other.  The Scots Magazine - Seite 3741784Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | None - 1852 - 492 Seiten
...neighborhood of Queen Charlotte's Sound, "If I had followed ihe advice of all our pieiended friends. 1 might have extirpated the whole race, for the people of each hamlet or village, by turns, hpplii d to me<to de£to> the other It appears to me that the New Zeaianders must live in peipetual... | |
 | lady Mary Anne Broome - 1872 - 422 Seiten
...to assist them in making war on the neighbouring tribe. He adds, " Had I attended to these requests I might have extirpated the whole race ; for the people of each village applied to me to destroy the other." We learn that Cook was disappointed in getting supplies... | |
 | David Laing Purves - 1874 - 856 Seiten
...listen to them ; for, according to their ideas of equity, this ought to have been done. But if I had followed the advice of all our pretended friends,...each hamlet or village, by turns, applied to me to destroy the other. One would have afraost thought it impossible that so striking a proof of the divided... | |
 | New Zealand Institute - 1875 - 536 Seiten
...they should he killed by their own neighbours ! Speaking of them generally, he also says, " If I had followed the advice of all our pretended friends,...extirpated the whole race ; for the people of each harnlet or village, by turns, applied to me to destroy the other." Such being their known fierce character,... | |
 | James Cook - 1880 - 538 Seiten
...not listen to them, for, according to their ideas of equity, this ought to have been done. If I had followed the advice of all our pretended friends,...of each hamlet or village by turns applied to me to destroy the other. At daybreak on the 16th I set out with a party of men in five boats, to collect... | |
 | 1882 - 380 Seiten
...listen to them ; for, according to their ideas of equity, this ought to have been done. But if I had followed the advice of all our pretended friends,...each hamlet or village, by turns, applied to me to destroy the other. One would have almost thought it impossible that so striking a proof of the divided... | |
 | Thomas Morland Hocken - 1914 - 316 Seiten
...countrymen desire it, and it would be very good." " But," says Cook, " if I had taken their advice I might have extirpated the whole race, for the people...of each hamlet or village by turns applied to me to destroy the other." After much pressure Kahura ventured to say, "One of my countrymen having brought... | |
 | Gananath Obeyesekere - 1997 - 340 Seiten
...(B) 3a, p. 269. 25. Beaglehole in Cook (B) 3a, p. ocl1v, n. 1. 26. Cook (B) 2, p. 62: "But if I had followed the advice of all our pretended friends,...whole race, for the people of each Hamlet or village applyed by turns to me to distroy the other. ..." 27. Cook (B) 2, pp. 386-88. 28. This was the motivation... | |
 | John Avery - 1997 - 168 Seiten
...war with their neighbours: 'If I had followed the advice of all our pretended friends', Cook wrote, 'I might have extirpated the whole race; for the people...each hamlet or village, by turns, applied to me to destroy the other.' According to Cook, the New Zealanders practised both ceaseless war and cannibalism... | |
 | James Cook - 1999 - 494 Seiten
...listen to them; for according to their ideas of equity, this ought to have been done. But if I had followed the advice of all our pretended friends,...each hamlet or village, by turns, applied to me to destroy the other. On the 1 6th, at daybreak, I set out with a party of men, in five boats, to collect... | |
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