The Voyage of Captain Don Felipe González: In the Ship of the Line San Lorenzo, with the Frigate Santa Rosalia in Company, to Easter Island in 1770-1. Preceded by an Extract from Mynheer Jacob Roggeveen's Official Log of His Discovery of and Visit to Easter Island in 1722

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Pàgina 21 - wish to resign, he shall be considered as a member for the succeeding year. IV. The management of the Society's affairs shall be vested in a Council consisting of twenty-two members, viz., a President, two
Pàgina 16 - with hewn stones of a very large size ; and the workmanship is not inferior to the best plain piece of masonry we have in England. They use no sort of cement ; yet the joints are exceedingly close and the stones morticed and tenanted one into another, in a very artful manner.
Pàgina xviii - he saw a small sandy Island just by him; and that they saw to the Westward of it a long Tract of pretty high Land, tending away toward the North West out of sight. This might probably be the coast of Terra Australis Incognita^.
Pàgina 97 - All this account tallies with the observations we have gathered in this bay, on whose slopes, and on those throughout the island, not a single tree is to be found capable of furnishing a plank so much as six inches in width ; but there are plenty of shrubs or brushwood of a sort little more than an
Pàgina 35 - inform the Hon. Secretary of any Errors in this List. Messrs. Edward G. Allen and Son, Ltd., King Edward Mansions, 14, Grape Street, Shaftesbury Avenue, WC
Pàgina 14 - our oysters. When these Indians go about any job which might set their ear-plugs waggling, and bid fair to do them any hurt, they take them out and hitch the rim of the lobe up over the top of the ear, which gives them a quaint and laughable appearance
Pàgina 15 - for though we saw nothing to induce us to believe the men were of a jealous disposition, or the women afraid to appear in public, something of this kind was probably the case.
Pàgina 148 - Historial de la Provincia y Archipiélago de Chilóe, en el reyno de Chile, y Obispado de la Concepción. Dedicada a nuestro Católico Monarca Don Carlos
Pàgina 109 - OF THE EXPEDITION UNDERTAKEN BY ORDER OF HIS EXCELLENCY DON MANUEL DE AMAT, VICEROY OF PERU, IN THE SHIP SAN LORENZO AND THE FRIGATE SANTA ROSALIA, FROM THE HARBOUR OF EL CALLAO DE LIMA TO THE ISLAND OF DAVID, in 1770.
Pàgina xix - of our Men, would have made this Land, and have gone ashore on it; but the Captain would not permit us. The small Island bears from Capayapo almost due East

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