Watkin Tench's 1788 by Flannery Tim; Tench Watkin;

Watkin Tench's 1788 by Flannery Tim; Tench Watkin;

Author:Flannery, Tim; Tench, Watkin;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: HIS004000, POL045000
ISBN: 819579
Publisher: The Text Publishing Company
Published: 2011-11-23T05:00:00+00:00


† Sailors were in the habit of calling the salt meat they ate on long voyages ‘junks’, but the word was also used synonymously with ‘chunks’.

†† A dirk was a kind of dagger.

* Such preparation is equal to what cocking a gun, and directing it at its object, would be with us. To launch the spear, or to touch the trigger, only remains.

** His Excellency described the shock to me as similar to a violent blow, with such energy was the weapon thrown.

*** They have never since been heard of. Before they went away they tried in vain to procure firearms. If they were not swallowed by the sea, probably they were cut off by the natives on some part of the coast where their necessities obliged them to land.



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