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Title: The story of Captain Cook's three voyages round the world
Year: 1870 (1870s)
Authors: Jones, M
Subjects: Cook, James, 1728-1779 Voyages around the world
Publisher: London : Cassell, Petter & Galpin
Contributing Library: Scott - York University Libraries
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to get on well enoughamong themselves, though the chiefs were always readyto rule each other, with a rod of iron, whenever they gotthe opportunity. Among the amusements popular in the island was onenot unknown among ourselves. It was played betweentwo, one of whom placed a small stone under a cloth, whichhe afterwards so rumpled and crumpled that it was impos-sible to tell where the stone lay; the other then, makingthe best guess that he could as to its whereabouts, struckwith a stick the spot where he imagined it to be. If hewas right, he won ; if wrong, he lost. And as they were allgamblers by nature, the chances of this simple game gaveopportunity for the bystanders to make any amount of bets,as to the result, that they had a mind for. Their bets wereapt to be heavy. One man was seen tearing his hair, andbeating his breast, in a fury at having just lost three ironhatchets, bought on ship-board at the price of half of hispossessions, through betting at a race between boys and girls.
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KARAKAKOOA BAY. 2IO, A species of cup and ball, or rather spike and ball, was agreat favourite with the children, and certainly required nosmall skill to play it successfully, the ball being thrownup, and caught on the sharp point of the peg, to which itwas tied, as in our own game ; whence it was instantlyflung again, and caught on the opposite end of the peg:and so on without once missing. Their weapons of war were spears, clubs, daggers, andslings. The spear, of hard solid wood, was either six toeight feet long, with a four or six-barbed point, or twelve orfifteen feet in length, simply pointed. The dagger, orpaJwoa, was of a ponderous black wood, one to two feetlong, and secured to the arm by a loop. The clubs were ofall sorts and sizes ; the slings were of the invariable form ofthat weapon. The general impression made by the people and countrywas exceedingly gcod ; and so delighted was CaptainCook with the discovery of this large and beautiful island,varied by mountain, and plain

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