| George Barrington - Natural history - 1802 - 592 pages
...flour, and spirits, they threw overboard, as unpalatable ; the carriage guns they did the same with, considering them useless; the muskets they prized very much ; and one of tile savagcsi in his eagerness to try one, stove in the head of a barrel of powder, and, filling the... | |
| Charities - 1811 - 424 pages
...flour, and spirits they threw overboard, as unpalatable ; the carriage guns they did the same with, considering them useless ; the muskets they prized very much ; and one of the savages, in bis eagerness to try one, stove in the head of a barrel of powder, and filling the pan of the piece,... | |
| Richard Alexander Cruise - Māori (New Zealand people) - 1823 - 338 pages
...Edinburgh, found them when they rescued them. Tippahee was afterwards permitted by the Wangarooans to take three boatloads of any property he chose out...they prized very much, and one of the savages, in 314 his eagerness to try one, stove in the head of a barrel of gunpowder, and filling the pan of the... | |
| Louis Becke - Oceania - 1897 - 396 pages
...excepted, and the bulk they divided among themselves. The salt provisions, flour, and spirits they threw overboard, considering them useless. The muskets...pan of the piece snapped it directly over the cask ! In an instant the powder exploded, and killed five native women and nine men, and set the ship on... | |
| New South Wales - New South Wales - 1901 - 780 pages
...nour, and spirits they threw overboard, as unpalatable ; the carriage guns they did the same with, considering them useless; the muskets they prized...in his eagerness to try one, stove in the head of a barrell of powder, and filling the pan of the piece snapped it directly over the cask, the explosion... | |
| Robert McNab - New Zealand - 1908 - 804 pages
...flour, and spirits they threw overboard as unpalatable ; the carriage guns they did the same with, considering them useless ; the muskets they prized...in his eagerness to try one, stove in the head of a barrell of powder, and fi'ling the pan of the piece snapped it directly over the cask, the explosion... | |
| Robert McNab - Missions - 1914 - 264 pages
...flour, and spirits they threw overboard as unpalatable ; the carriage guns they did the same with, considering them useless ; the muskets they prized...in his eagerness to try one, stove in the head of a barrell of powder, and filling the pan of the piece snapped it directly over the cask, the explosion... | |
| Richard Alexander Cruise - Māori (New Zealand people) - 1921 - 170 pages
...natives. One account of the massacre states that in his eagerness to try one of the muskets a native stove in the head of a barrel of gunpowder, and filling the pan of the firearm he snapped it right over the opened barrel. The explosion killed five native Women, eight or... | |
| Robert McNab - New Zealand - 1908 - 808 pages
...unpalatable ; the carriage guns they did the same with, considering them useless ; the muskets they priced very much ; and one of the savages, in his eagerness to try one, stove in the head of a barrell of powder, and fi'ling the pan of the piece snapped it directly over the cask, the explosion... | |
| |