A General History and Collection of Voyages and Tr
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A
GENERAL
HISTORY AND COLLECTION
OF
VOYAGES AND TRAVELS,
ARRANGED IN SYSTEMATIC ORDER:
FORMING A COMPLETE HISTORY OF THE ORIGIN AND PROGRESS OF NAVIGATION, DISCOVERY, AND COMMERCE, BY SEA AND LAND, FROM THE EARLIEST AGES TO THE PRESENT TIME.
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BY
ROBERT KERR, F.R.S. & F.A.S. EDIN.
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ILLUSTRATED BY MAPS AND CHARTS.
VOL. XVI.
WILLIAM BLACKWOOD, EDINBURGH:
AND T. CADELL, LONDON.
MDCCCXXIV.
CONTENTS OF VOL. XVI.
CHAP. III. Transactions at Otaheite, and the Society Islands; and prosecution of the Voyage to the Coast of North America, 1
SECT.
I. An Eclipse of the Moon observed. The Island Toobouai discovered. Its Situation, Extent, and Appearance. Intercourse with its Inhabitants. Their Persons, Dresses, and Canoes described. Arrival at Oheitepeha Bay, at Otaheite. Omai's Reception and imprudent Conduct. Account of Spanish Ships twice visiting the Island. Interview with the Chief of this District. The Olla, or God, of Bolabola. A mad Prophet. Arrival in Matavai Bay, 1
II. Interview with Otoo, King of the Island, Imprudent Conduct of Omai. Employments on Shore. European Animals landed. Particulars about a Native who had visited Lima. About Oedidee. A Revolt in Eimeo. War with that Island determined upon, in a Council of Chiefs. A human Sacrifice on that Account. A particular Relation of the Ceremonies at the great Morai, where the Sacrifice was offered. Other barbarous Customs of this People, 16
III. Conference with Towha. Heevas described. Omai and Oedidee give Dinners. Fireworks exhibited. A remarkable Present of Cloth. Manner of preserving the Body of a dead Chief. Another human Sacrifice. Riding on Horseback. Otoo's Attention to supply Provisions, and prevent Thefts. Animals given to him. Etary, and the Deputies of a Chief, have Audiences. A mock Fight of two War Canoes. Naval Strength of these Islands. Manner of conducting a War, 35
IV. The Day of Sailing fixed. Peace made with Eimeo. Debates about it, and Otoo's Conduct blamed. A Solemnity at the Morai on the Occasion, described by Mr King. Observations upon it. Instance of Otoo's Art. Omai's War-Canoe, and Remarks upon his Behaviour. Otoo's Present, and Message to the King of Great Britain. Reflections on our Manner of Traffic, and on the good Treatment we met with at Otaheite. Account of the Expedition of the Spaniards. Their Fictions to depreciate the English. Wishes expressed that no Settlement may be made. Omai's Jealousy of another Traveller, 48
Table of contents (by pages)
- 1: A General History and Collection of Voyages and Tr
- 2: Refreshments received at Ulietea
- 3: Manner of Building the Houses in Nootka Sound
- 4: The Inlet called Prince William's Sound
- 5: Account of their Settlement at Oonalashka
- 6: On our Return to Karakakooa Bay
- 7: Mr Bligh at 1 44 6 Time keep
- 8: As there was good anchorage without the reef
- 9: Each of them had a pretty long outrigger
- 10: Omai took no particular notice of them
- 11: The other two having died at Lima
- 12: Which is the name of the god of Bolabola
- 13: Amongst the pretty girls of Otaheite
- 14: Omai and I prepared to pay him a formal visit
- 15: Which stood without the pallisades
- 16: One of those enthusiastic persons whom they call Eatooas
- 17: His place of residence and having landed on Matavai Point
- 18: A party of us accompanied Otoo to Oparre
- 19: But whose real name is Heete heete
- 20: That he had been at Oheitepeha
- 21: But that he had not been there a week before Maheine
- 22: As soon as we landed at Attahooroo
- 23: The tuft of feathers which he had received from Towha
- 24: Carried and laid upon the ark of the Eatooa
- 25: Were enclosed with the Eatooa in the ark
- 26: Is a heap of stones at one end of the large whatta
- 27: Came and fed upon the sacrifices
- 28: As a thanksgiving offering to the Eatooa
- 29: In this he is confirmed by Plutarch
- 30: That man's conscience or reason
- 31: In conveying our sentiments to Towha
- 32: And Otoo himself followed soon after
- 33: When Otoo came and asked me if my belly was full
- 34: In the evening we returned from Oparre
- 35: Otoo informing me that his presence was necessary at Oparre
- 36: We left Etary and his party to ruminate upon their folly
- 37: And Omai went on board the other
- 38: And had returned with his fleet to Attahooroo
- 39: At that extremity which joins to Attahooroo
- 40: Towha had brought a large war canoe from Eimeo
- 41: He was followed by an Attahooroo man
- 42: Was yet desirous of obliging Otoo
- 43: The Earee rahie no Pretane to send him
- 44: Four Spaniards remained behind
- 45: The priests resided constantly in the house at Oheitepeha
- 46: As I did not give up my design of touching at Eimeo
- 47: Maheine was accompanied by his wife
- 48: Charged with a threatening message to Maheine
- 49: Till we came within sight of Watea
- 50: Notwithstanding all that I or Omai could say
- 51: Those of Eimeo are of low stature
- 52: The next morning we saw Huaheine
- 53: As I would do nothing till the earee rahie came
- 54: If Omai fixed himself in Ulietea
- 55: It was very different with Omai
- 56: Having employed Omai to examine the prisoner
- 57: To prevent the fellow's doing me and Omai any more mischief
- 58: As soon as Omai was settled in his new habitation
- 59: His European weapons consisted of a musket
- 60: A man of considerable property in Ulietea
- 61: To insure him protection in Huaheine
- 62: Refreshments received at Ulietea
- 63: Observed an occultation of Sigma Capricorni
- 64: Except that his goat had died in kidding
- 65: And proceed northward to the latitude 56 deg
- 66: And Oreo dispatched a man before us
- 67: Whom one of the officers had brought from Huaheine
- 68: Brought Oreo back from Bolabola
- 69: High Reputation of the Bolabola Men
- 70: And soon after I was introduced to Opoony
- 71: And is still preserved at Bolabola
- 72: Ever since the conquest of Ulietea and Otaha
- 73: And our long stay at Otaheite and the neigbourhood
- 74: Before any British vessel touched at Otaheite
- 75: Particularly at Otaheite and Ulietea
- 76: 11h 15m to 12h 20m 11h 48m 5
- 77: Many of us had no inclination to make enquiries
- 78: That the inhabitant of Otaheite
- 79: Which is not cut so short as is the fashion at Tongataboo
- 80: Exterminates the poison of this fatal disease
- 81: I had collected a copious vocabulary
- 82: But not fractures of the skull
- 83: The Eree de hoi 2 alone is able to furnish pork every day
- 84: And the Urritoes of the Ladrones
- 85: Father Le Gobien expressly tells us
- 86: For Le Gobien expressly tells us
- 87: They impute it entirely to Oraa
- 88: Or offering places of the morais
- 89: It is said that they are then devouring their Eatooa
- 90: Thus constituting Otaheite and the neighbouring islands
- 91: As Waheiadooa not only possesses Tiaraboo
- 92: Unless he happens to be an Eree
- 93: With regard to the little island Mataia
- 94: Mataia or Osnaburgh Tooboo
- 95: What to them was confused and unconnected
- 96: At this time our longitude was 205 deg
- 97: And a channel into the lagoon
- 98: I landed in company with Mr Bayly
- 99: Perspiration always occasioning a reduction of temperature
- 100: And the turtles they had caught
- 101: And in the longitude of 202 deg
- 102: Several small pigs were purchased for a sixpenny nail
- 103: Five fathoms over a sandy bottom
- 104: After he knew that he had contracted this disease
- 105: It did not appear to Mr Williamson
- 106: Which makes it agree exactly with the whatta of Otaheite
- 107: A Taa ta Tanata or Tangata
- 108: And a few plantains and taro roots
- 109: Les Hollandois ont accredite ces fables
- 110: We were three leagues to leeward
- 111: Of the person pointing to his belly
- 112: The cruel inhabitants of Fidji
- 113: Within three leagues of Oneeheow
- 114: The people in them resembled those of Atooi
- 115: I should have left these well intended presents at Atooi
- 116: And followed by two others carrying the two pigs
- 117: I named the whole group the Sandwich Islands
- 118: Lying close to the north side of Oneeheow
- 119: As well as the slates and whetstones
- 120: We saw several trees of the dooe dooe
- 121: It was very common to see women with infants at the breast
- 122: Fastened round neat polished sticks two feet long
- 123: The only artificial dish we met with was a taro pudding
- 124: Somewhat thicker than the rammer of a musket
- 125: They stain their gourd shells prettily with undulated lines
- 126: 3 The men of the Society Islands whom we found at Wateeoo
- 127: The people of Atooi and Oneeheow
- 128: Which seems equivalent to the moe
- 129: Those of Otaheite do not inter their dead
- 130: The taboo also prevails in Atooi in its full extent
- 131: Which the Manilla ship is obliged to make
- 132: And in the longitude of 200 deg
- 133: They proved to be a new species of oniscus
- 134: Which I called Cape Foulweather
- 135: And on that account I called it Cape Perpetua
- 136: The wind veered to the westward
- 137: Where we were becalmed for some time
- 138: Haranguing and making gestures
- 139: Than to the cove where I had been
- 140: Fastening our hawsers to the trees on shore
- 141: In the cove where the ships lay
- 142: Was to take down the mizen mast
- 143: Which they had reserved in bladders
- 144: These pieces of wicker work some of whose superficies are
- 145: They all stood up in their canoes
- 146: I received in return a beaver skin
- 147: And in the longitude of 233 deg
- 148: Which grow about the sides of the rills
- 149: The racoons and squirrels are of the common sort
- 150: And breast were of a yellowish white
- 151: Not improperly be called the yellow bellied wood pecker
- 152: Another of a brownish red cast
- 153: The natives also use the transparent leafy glimmer
- 154: There seems abundant reason to agree with Mr Marsden
- 155: The narrow opening of which receives the septum
- 156: They even exceed this sometimes
- 157: Is a thick leathern mantle doubled
- 158: For they pilfered nothing from us
- 159: Seem to resemble those of Nootka
- 160: And the addition of other sorts of filth
- 161: He soon provided himself with a mat
- 162: The principal are herrings and sardines
- 163: Which have a mild sweetish taste
- 164: Somewhat like the patoo patoo of New Zealand
- 165: Ending in a notched point or prow
- 166: And the barbs of their harpoons
- 167: Nor were they even startled at the report of a musquet
- 168: So that they were not within two degrees of Nootka
- 169: The next most general termination is composed of tl
- 170: The large vocabulary of the Nootka language
- 171: Inclination of the Dipping Needle
- 172: Of the wind veering more to the south
- 173: This mountain I called Mount Edgcumbe
- 174: Which was called Cape Fairweather
- 175: And in the longitude of 219 deg
- 176: These vallies are filled with pine trees
- 177: Which I named Cape Hinchingbroke
- 178: As at King George's or Nootka Sound
- 179: And in excessively hard squalls
- 180: And began to look about them for plunder
- 181: And followed the anchor to the bottom
- 182: And steered to the north westward
- 183: In standing back to Montagu Island
- 184: They put over this another frock
- 185: Made of the above shelly substance
- 186: As they are all very accurately described by Crantz
- 187: Hung by a thong round the neck
- 188: The first of which was also used at Nootka
- 189: Of the birds mentioned at Nootka
- 190: On ne pent savoir quel etoit l'usage de cet outil
- 191: That it must be what he called Cape St Hermogenes
- 192: The island of St Hermogenes bore S
- 193: Cape Douglas and Mount St Augustin
- 194: The hawser parted near the inner end
- 195: They displayed a leathern frock
- 196: And found the ebb already begun
- 197: The flood set strong into the river Turnagain
- 198: They also sold us some pieces of salmon and halibut
- 199: We anchored to wait for the ebb
- 200: And stretched away for Cape St Hermogenes
- 201: Like the island of St Hermogenes
- 202: Which obtained the name of Cape Barnabas
- 203: And which we called Cape Trinity
- 204: Which was called Pinnacle Point
- 205: I therefore kept along the southernmost chain of islands
- 206: Does not mention Halibut Island
- 207: Which was in thirty five fathoms water
- 208: The next morning we got a breeze easterly
- 209: And that on the other side to trend N
- 210: And is situated on the north side of Oonalashka
- 211: And appeared as a high round hummock
- 212: And in the longitude of 201 deg
- 213: We tacked in fourteen fathoms water
- 214: And is distant eighty two leagues from Cape Newenham
- 215: Between this latitude and Cape Newenham
- 216: We steered back to the southward
- 217: And in the longitude of 191 deg
- 218: And in the longitude of 194 deg
- 219: And in the longitude of 193 deg
- 220: And in the longitude of 191 deg
- 221: Slung over their left shoulder
- 222: The bed and bedding were of deer skins
- 223: The latitude of the ship was 66 deg
- 224: And in the longitude of 194 deg
- 225: Being then in the latitude of 70 deg
- 226: Nor will the young one quit the dam
- 227: But by standing to the southward
- 228: And in the longitude of 194 deg
- 229: It also appeared to me very improbable
- 230: And in the longitude of 180 deg
- 231: Beering's Position of this Coast accurate
- 232: Which Muller says is called Serdze Kamen
- 233: 1 of the distance between the Noss
- 234: The southernmost point of the main land bore S
- 235: The northernmost land in sight
- 236: Having continued to ply back all night
- 237: To the southward of Cape Denbigh
- 238: Consisting of very fine salmon
- 239: Which the coast forms to the west of Baldhead
- 240: I named this inlet Norton Sound
- 241: Account of their Settlement at Oonalashka
- 242: That neither Arrowsmith nor Coxe mentions Anderson's Island
- 243: That lies ten miles to the westward of Samganoodha
- 244: And seldom returned without eight or ten halibut
- 245: Fixed on travelling to Siberia
- 246: When I pointed out Kamtschatka
- 247: Both Ismyloff and the others affirmed
- 248: And the peninsula of Kamtschatka
- 249: Or this now produced by Mr Ismyloff
- 250: Particularly the harbour of Samganoodha in Oonalashka
- 251: Mr Ismyloff remained with us till the 21st
- 252: The Kamtschadales in the middle
- 253: Under the rigours of the climate
- 254: And there are no courts of justice in Kodiak
- 255: The women's frock is made of seal skin
- 256: They eat almost every thing raw
- 257: All sewing is performed by the women
- 258: Draws the skin tight round his body over his gut frock
- 259: As they are described by Crantz
- 260: Footnote 20 History of Kamtschatka
- 261: And berries of several different sorts
- 262: And those of Norton's Sound and Oonalashka
- 263: To the point where Hearne saw the sea
- 264: Between our leaving Samganoodha
- 265: The island of Oonalashka bore S
- 266: The wind veered to the southward
- 267: This encouraged me to ply to windward
- 268: And our visitors from Mowee not choosing to accompany us
- 269: Knowing that there was no danger of the scurvy
- 270: The wind veering more easterly
- 271: Should be furnished with no cordage
- 272: Than the inhabitants of Otaheite are
- 273: That the hogs could not be kept alive
- 274: The observed latitude was 19 deg
- 275: At noon our observed latitude was 19 deg
- 276: In the evening Mr Bligh returned
- 277: Except at the village of Kakooa
- 278: We now found the case exceedingly altered
- 279: Which was brought by Kaireekeea with the same ceremony
- 280: Kaireekeea and Koah began their office
- 281: When Pareea and Koah left us to attend Terreeoboo
- 282: Which was pickled at Owhyhee in January
- 283: Giving notice that the Orono had landed
- 284: Kaireekeea and his followers began their ceremonies
- 285: Captain Cook carried Terreeoboo
- 286: And immediately two combatants appeared
- 287: Old Kaoo and his brethren were spectators
- 288: And patting the bellies of the sailors
- 289: To the place where Kaoo resided
- 290: Terreeoboo and Kaoo waited upon Captain Cook
- 291: Which obliged us to double reef the topsails
- 292: We therefore hoisted out the pinnace to carry them on shore
- 293: Yet the unsuspicious conduct of Terreeoboo
- 294: A native had sold a hog on board the Resolution
- 295: In which Pareea was knocked down
- 296: The captain went toward Kowrowa
- 297: Who had received a stab between the shoulders with a pahooa
- 298: And afterward by Sir Hugh Palliser
- 299: Having traversed that hemisphere
- 300: Of preserving the health of seamen
- 301: As given in the Biographia Britannica
- 302: The ships were put under a taboo by the chiefs
- 303: Which lay farther out than the pinnace
- 304: The Indian being thus convinced of his being a Toa
- 305: Attended by the lieutenant of marines
- 306: Went directly into the pinnace
- 307: And carrying his musquet under the other arm
- 308: Esteeming it the part of a faithful historian
- 309: That the unsuspicious conduct of Terreeoboo
- 310: Dangerous Situation of the Party at the Morai
- 311: And to desire Kaireekeea to discourage the report
- 312: As soon as we had quitted the morai
- 313: Though the contemptuous behaviour of the natives
- 314: The men putting on their war mats
- 315: That if I would go myself to Terreeoboo
- 316: When Koah returned from the ships
- 317: When the Orono would come again
- 318: We saw Koah paddling toward us
- 319: From behind both these defences
- 320: Which afforded shelter to the natives
- 321: At which he was exceedingly shocked
- 322: Came with presents from Terreeoboo to sue for peace
- 323: At length Eappo came off to us
- 324: Parts of Mowee being now destroyed
- 325: The weather continued variable during the night
- 326: Carrying regular soundings from twenty to thirteen fathoms
- 327: With the pinnace and launch laden with casks
- 328: As the pinnace lay beyond the surf
- 329: And that of Oneeheow to the latter
- 330: That Oreehoua was a separate island from Oneeheow