Captain Cook's original voyages round the world, performed by royal authority - containing the whole of his discoveries in geography, navigation, astronomy, &c., with memoirs of his life, and (14584742200)

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Title: Captain Cook's original voyages round the world, performed by royal authority : containing the whole of his discoveries in geography, navigation, astronomy, &c., with memoirs of his life, and particulars relative to his unfortunate death
Year: 1815 (1810s)
Authors: Cook, James, 1728-1779
Subjects: Cook, James, 1728-1779 Voyages around the world
Publisher: Woodbridge (East Suffolk) B. Smith
Contributing Library: Brigham Young University Hawaii, Joseph F. Smith Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Consortium of Church Libraries and Archives



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AND ROUND THE WORLD. Tliey fix in Ihi* artificial mouth, a tlat, nar- Tlrey differ no otherwise from the f^rHifrow kind oiornaimiit, made princi;)ally out boats in Greenland, than in the form of theof a solid shell or hone, cut into small nar- head and stern, particularly of the former,row pieces, liUe teeth, almost down to the which somewhat resembles a whales head,base, or thick part, which has, at ea(!h end, Jhe tramini? consists of slender pieces o(a project me bit, that serves to support it wood ; and the outside is composed of thewhen put into the divitled lip, the cut part skins of seals, or other sea aninials, stretch-tlieu appearing outwards. Some of them ed over the wood. Their small canoes areoiily perforate the lower-lip into separate coiistrucled nearly of the same form andholes ; on which occasion the ornament materials with those of the E>;quimaux.consists ofthe same number ofdistinct shelly Some of these carry two persons. Thestuds, the points of which are thrust th