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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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ncreased on finding that their friends had brought withthem plenty of red parrot feathers from Amsterdam:these feathers being as highly valued here as in theMarquesas, so that as long as they lasted trading waseasy. These red feathers were used in their religious rites,tied up in bunches of eight or ten and fastened to the endof a small cord, five or six inches long, made of the fibres ofcocoa-nut, twisted until it was like wire : this was heldbetween the finger and thumb whilst a prayer was recited.In case of need, two or three feathers sufficed. Those thatare found on the head of the green paroquet were mostesteemed ; and such good judges of this particular com-modity were the natives that it was in vain to attempt topass off on them dyed feathers in place of the genuine ones.A longer stay than had been intended was made here ;and this gave Cook additional opportunities of becomingacquainted with the ways and doings of the people. A few days after their arrival, a review, on a large
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REVIEW OF WAR CANOES. 123 scale, of what one might call the navy of the island,took place, to which the captain was invited, and almostdragged, with such hospitable warmth that he was in somedanger of being torn to pieces. A hundred and sixtylarge war canoes, fully armed and equipped, with theirfighting men in all their cumbrous war-dress aboard, weredrawn up, like a fringe to the beach, heads to it, sterns tothe sea; and with them were a hundred and seventysmaller double canoes, supposed to fill the place of ourtransports for the conveyance of stores, and the like : inall three hundred and thirty canoes, containing, it was cal-culated, between seven and eight thousand men. Notrifling force this to launch against an offending neighbour,which was understood to be the present object of it: oneof the adjacent isles having thrown off its allegiance to theTahitian monarch. The war-dress consisted of breast-plates, shields, so vast a quantity of cloth that the Englishspectators thought that

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