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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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ides there was an earthwork, four and a-half feet high, with a ditch at foot, towards the country, ten feet broad and six deep. To the west, an earthwork, four feet high, with strong stakes driven in at top, sufficed, as the tide flowed up to its base. The east, as the weakest point, had, in addition to two rows of water-casks full of water, a couple of four-pounders; whilst six swivel guns were placed so as to oppose all attack from the direction of the woods in that quarter. The ships guns commanded the whole. Five-and-forty men garrisoned the entrenchments,which were guarded, in regular military fashion, with sentries, formally relieved from time to time. The shore life of the little party would have been very pleasant but for the flies, of which there was a very plague, blessed with such appetites that, in addition to feasting upon the persons of our navigators, which ought to have satisfied moderate flies, they actually ate colours off the draughtsmans drawings as fast as he laid them on.
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CHAPTER II. Tahiti and its People. THE island of Otaheite, or Tahiti, where Cook and his companions remained three months, is the largest of the group known as the Society Islands, lying in about the centre of the South Pacific Ocean. It is hilly, and wellwooded; the soil fertile, and well watered. Its produce was found to be bread-fruit, cocoa-nuts, excellent bananas,plantains, sweet potatoes, yams, sugar-cane, with many other vegetables and fruits, which, growing of themselves,or with the least possible trouble on the part of the natives, rendered the inhabitants very lazy. Dogs, which they ate, pigs, and poultry, were among their possessions ; they could have very good fish for the catching;and in this art their adroitness was remarkable, their implements singularly effective. The inhabitants were tall, and well-made, with olive complexions, dark hair, rather fiatnoses, and, generally, beautiful, expressive eyes. Possessing,like the rest of the world, a fair share of personal vanity,some

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