With Lord Byron at the Sandwich Islands in 1825: Being Extracts from the MS Diary of James Macrae, Scottish Botanist |
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Page 36 - An Examination of Charges against the American Missionaries at the Sandwich Islands as alleged in the Voyage of the Ship Blonde and In the London Quarterly Review,
Page 1 - An Examination of Charges against the American Missionaries at the Sandwich Islands as alleged in the Voyage of the ship Blonde and in the London Quarterly Review,
Page 3 - curious, which he collected for the Horticultural Society, or that some of the very enlightened members of that society should not have done so. The field is in some respects new; and it is acknowledged by all the foreign navigators that the collection made during the Blonde's voyage is one of the most curious in Europe.
Page 22 - been removed into the town, on the level ground, some distance from the water, near Mr. Jones; and, fitted with green blinds, a flagstaff and lookout, stands a conspicuous object, both from the water and on shore, as the Blonde Hotel, owned by Governor
Page 44 - He saw plenty of poor people in England, but we see none here; that they got plenty of poi, taro and fish and
Page 54 - The last mile was destitute of vegetation except one plant of the Syginesia tribe, in growth much like a Yucca, with sharp pointed silver coloured leaves and green upright spike of three or four feet producing pendulous branches with brown flowers, truly superb, and almost worth the journey of coming here to see it on purpose.
Page 4 - Lord Byron, then lying at Woolwich, received on board the bodies of the late King and Queen of the Sandwich Islands.
Page 73 - Lord 1778 This humble monument is erected by his fellow countrymen in the year of Our Lord
Page 73 - In memory of Captain James Cook, RN, who discovered these islands in the year of
Page 3 - It is to be regretted that the practised collector of botanical specimens who went in the Blonde to the Sandwich Islands, should not have furnished any account of the plants, useful