Identifier: historicalaccou_e03henr (find matches)
Title: An historical account of all the voyages round the world : performed by English navigators ; including those lately undertaken by order of His present Majesty ; the whole faithfully extracted from the journals of the voyagers ; Drake, undertaken in 1577-80 ; Cavendish, 1586-88 ; Cowley, 1683-86 ; Dampier, 1689-96 ; Cooke, 1708-11 ; Rogers, 1708-11 ; Clipperton and Shelvocke, 1719-22 ; Anson, undertaken in 1740-44 ; Byron, 1764-66 ; Wallis, 1766-68 ; Carteret, 1766-69 ; and Cook, 1768-71 ; together with that of Sydney Parkinson ... and the voyage of Mons. Bougainville ... to which is added, an appendix ; containing the journal of a voyage to the North pole, by the Hon. Commodore Phipps, and Captain Lutwidge
Year: 1773 (1770s)
Authors: Henry, David, 1710-1792
Subjects: Voyages around the world
Publisher: London : F. Newbery
Contributing Library: University of Pittsburgh Library System
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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ROUND THE WORLD. 397 The veffds are fleered by two men, havingeach a paddle, and fitting in the flern ; butthey can only fail before the wind, in which di-redion they move with confiderable fwifcnefs. Thefe Indians ufe axes, adzes and chilfels,with which laft they likewife bore holes. Thechifiels are made of jafper, or of the bone ofa mans arfti; and their axes and adzes of ahard black ftone. They ufe their fmall jafpertools till they are blunted, and then throw themaway, having no inftrument to fharpen themwith. The Indians at Tolaga having been pre-fented with a piece of glafs, drilled a holethrough it, and hung it round the neck. Afmall bit of jafper is thought to have been thetool they uied in drilling it. Their tillage of the ground is excellent, ow-ing to the necefllty they are under of cultivat-ing or running the rilk of ftarving. At Te-gadoo thtir crops werejud put into the ground,and the furface of the field was as fmooth as agarden, the roots were ranged in regular lines,and

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