| Clement Cruttwell - 1798 - 730 էջ
...learn, that of tattowin¿; the tip of the tongues of the females. The drefs of the men generally confins only of a piece of thick cloth, called the maro, ten or twelve inches broad, which they pals between the legs, and tie round the waift. This is the common drefs of all ranks of people. Their... | |
| Robert Kerr - 1816 - 562 էջ
...of the South Sea islands ; but it is only at New Zealand and the Sandwich Islands, that they tattow the face. There is also this difference between the...the meaning of which we could never learn, that of tallowing the tip of the tongues of the females. 26 Modern Circumnaniga Tjoik, highly salted, which... | |
| James Cook - 1821 - 486 էջ
...of the South Sea Islands; but it is only at New Zealand and the Sandwich Islands that they tattotv the face. There is also this difference between the...the meaning of which we could never learn, that of tattowing the tip of the tongues of the females. . . ' . ' From some information we received, relative... | |
| Joseph Emerson Worcester - 1823 - 512 էջ
...New Zealand and the Sandwich islands that they tattoo the face. The hands and arms of the women are very neatly marked ; and they have a singular custom...which we could never learn, that of tattooing the tips of the tongues of females. " The common dress of the men generally consists of only a piece of... | |
| Robert Kerr - 1824 - 548 էջ
...of the South Sea islands ; but it is only at New Zealand and the Sandwich Islands, that they tattuw the face. There is also this difference between the...meaning of which we could never •learn, that. of tattowing the tip of the tongues of the females. From some information we received, relative to the... | |
| James Cook - 1842 - 644 էջ
...of the South Sea Islands ; but it is only at New Zealand and the Sandwich Islands that they tattow the face. There is also this difference between the...the meaning of which we could never learn, that of tattowing the tip of the tongues of the females. From some information we received, relative to the... | |
| James Cook - 1842 - 654 էջ
...tattowed with a mark that distinguishes them as the property of the several chiefs to whom they belong*. The dress of the men generally consists only of a piece of thick cloth, called the maro, about ten or twelve inches broad, which they pass between the legs, and tie round the waist. This is... | |
| James Cook - 1904 - 454 էջ
...South Sea islands, but it is only at New Zealand and the Sandwich Islands that they tatoo the face. They have a singular custom amongst them, the meaning of which we could never learn — that of tatooing the tip of the tongues of the females. The dress of the men generally consists only of a piece... | |
| James McKeen Cattell - 1917 - 588 էջ
...South Sea islands, but it is only at New Zealand and the Sandwich Islands that they tattoo the face. They have a singular custom amongst them, the meaning...could never learn — that of tattooing the tip of the tongue of the females.1 Upon contact with Europeans the natives abandoned their own modes of tatuing,... | |
| James Cook - 1999 - 494 էջ
...South Sea islands, but it is only at New Zealand and the Sandwich Islands that they tattoo the face. They have a singular custom amongst them, the meaning...consists only of a piece of thick cloth, called the maro, about ten or twelve inches broad, which they pass between the legs, and tie round the waist. This is... | |
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