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... is worfe. A (hip of war is now fitting out for the purpofe of being fent to Otaheite, in order to convey plants of the bread fruit-tree to the Weft India Iflands. It is to contain a complete apparatus ofa hot-houie, and a bct.tuift and gardner is to accompany ...
... Captain Cook; but, at toe ifland, they attempted to {teal a boat and an an- ther, and fonie hoftilities enfued. _ The bread-fruit trees remaining on board, were in iprofperoas a ftate, that Lieutenant Bligh propofed ■' 'ss •pA rhe gratification.of conveying ...
... Kingts fupenntendar.t of that garden, was mo- mently expecting the arrival of a (hip from Ots-heite with a quantity ofthe bread fruit-tree, of which be was. fp.jgood as to promife me a part to ir.ttodu. c ir into the Bahamas. This tree agreeing well with a ...
... board the cutty, armed Jbip. This fhip failed from England, the autumn of 1787, on a voyage to the Society Iflnnds for bread-fruit trees, intended for our Weft India fettlements ; in which climate, was the opinion of Sir Jofeph they might be fuccefsfully ...
... voyage having been fo far made good, as the Ihip to be on her return to the Atlantic Ocean. — Upwards of one thoni.tn.i bread-fruit trees, in the fined prefervation, were on board, ail of which we:, obtained from the native roil, with immenfe labour. Some ...
... pany with the Difcovery, Captain Roberts, in purfuit ofthe defperadoes on board the Bounty. The objeft of conveying the bread fruit-trees to tbe Weft Indies, will be the fecond confideration of the voyage : — and the Hound will therefore be prepared to receive ...
... Stafford af.i_.es of Healing iron from the Merfey Canal, and was fentenced to be tranfport- ed forfbntteen years. That the Bread-fruit Tree will fiourifb in the Well; Indies, there is the ftrongefl prefumption. 'i'hc Su- gar-cane, a native ofthe call, thrives ...
... BF.rAr--sP.inT TRFFa The failure of the expedition of the Bounty with the bread-fruit trees, has never been properly dated to the public. It is a lofs of the heavieit kind, and ought to be re- medied with the gicattil poliible fpetd. Captain do-, fpettks ...
... of the expedition of the 800 l I the bread-fruit trees, has never been propel ■ tt» the public It is a lofi ol the heavieii I ought to be remedied with the gn iteft pofli Capt. Cook, ijse.s'is ofthe bread-fruit trees ii lowing terras : If a mars plants ...
... coafi. This fervice eflcefted Captain Iliigii will purlue his voyage to Otaheite, where he wiil once more take in the bread fruit trees, in order to tranfpiant this valuab'e root to our Weft India iflands. Rums and fugars are on the rife already, in confe- ...
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... the natives. the 19th of July the purport of our voyage being completed, we failed on that day, having on board 1,630 Bread- Fruit Trees, and other plants, in the higheft perfection.—.We found that the Pandora had failed from Matavai Bay on May 9. 1791 ...