 | Alexander von Humboldt - Mexico - 1814 - 498 pages
...build schooners and even armed vessels with which they project distant expeditions. The north Avest currents bring them large trunks of pines from the...Philippine islands or China, either from Acapulco and San Blas, or from the north west coast of America. The coasting trade on the western coast of New Spain... | |
 | Manley Hopkins - Hawaii - 1862 - 458 pages
...progress towards that social state which we very improperly designate by the word " civilisation." . . . Perhaps this people will one day be as formidable...pirates of the Bermudas and Bahama Islands and Barbary who are dreaded in the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean.' | The origin of the Islands is clearly... | |
 | Manley Hopkins - Hawaii - 1866 - 684 pages
...we very improperly designate by the word "civilisation." . . . Perhaps this people will one day he as formidable on the Great Ocean as the privateers...pirates of the Bermudas and Bahama Islands and Barbary who are dreaded in the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean.' $ The origin of the islands is clearly... | |
 | John Thomson Faris - Hawaii - 1929 - 432 pages
...different manner. In 1822 Humboldt, after speaking at some length of their surprising progress, wrote: "Perhaps this people will one day be as formidable...the Great Ocean as the privateers and pirates of the Bermuda and Bahama Islands and Barbary who are dreaded on the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean."... | |
 | John Thomson Faris - Hawaii - 1929 - 430 pages
...different manner. In 1822 Humboldt, after speaking at some length of their surprising progress, wrote: "Perhaps this people will one day be as formidable...the Great Ocean as the privateers and pirates of the Bermuda and Bahama Islands and Barbary who are dreaded on the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean."... | |
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Europeans than all the other South Sea islanders. The sphere of their ideas has been extended, wants have been communicated to them which they were ignorant of, and within these twenty years they have made a considerable progress towards that social state... 