Voyages of Discoveries Around the World Successively Undertaken By the Hon Co
Voyages of Discoveries Around the World Successively Undertaken By the Hon Co
Robert Wilson
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The ship lay at the distance of somewhat less than a-- quarter of a mile from the shore, and in the morning of the 17th they were awakened by the singing of the birds ; the number was incredible, and they seemed to strain their throats in emulation of each other. Upon inquiry, they were informed that the birds here always begin to sing about two hours after midnight, and con-' terming to sing till sun-rise, were, like our nightingale^ silent the rest of the day. - On the 'JQth, the old man who ...had first come on board at their arrival in the bay, brought foor of the- heads of the seven people whom these Indians had kill* ed : the hair and flesh were entire, but the brainy (which is all they eat of human heads, ) . -had been ex- tracted; the flesh was soft, but ha-d by some method been preserved from putrefaction, for it had no disa- greeable smell. - Mr. Banks purchased one of them, but they sold it with great reluctance, and could not by any
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