 | 418 หน้า
...natives labour little, and truft to the fpbntaiieous productions of the earth chiefly, all fufferat certain times of the year, when the bread-fruit is...pinched for want of food, though no where did the bread fiuit trees appear more flourifhing. At Tongataboo, the chiefs, to fecure plenty, changed their... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - 1800 - 612 หน้า
...the natives labour little; and truft to the fpontaneous productions of the earth chiefly, all fuffer at certain times of the year, when the bread-fruit...very animals were pinched for want of food, though noTthere did the bread-fruit trees appear more flourishing. At Tongataboo, the chiefs, to fecure plenty,... | |
 | 1800 - 490 หน้า
...of fcafon, a temporary fcarcity. At Ohi. tahop it amounted to hunger; the mahie was difguDing ; an4 the very animals were pinched for want of food, though no where did the bread-fruit trees appear more flourishing. At Tongatabpo,t}}i: chiefst to fecure plen. ' • -v»!%f* t*te:r abodes to other . >>.... | |
 | Thomas Robert Maltus - 2006 - 325 หน้า
...with regard to the most fertile of all these islands; and from the Missionary voyage it appears that, at certain times of the year, when the bread-fruit is out of season, all suffer a temporary scarcity. At Oheitahoo, one of the Marquesas, it amounted to hunger,... | |
 | Thomas Robert Malthus - 2013 - 325 หน้า
...with regard to the most fertile of all these islands; and from the Missionary voyage it appears that, at certain times of the year, when the bread-fruit is out of season, all suffer a temporary scarcity. At Oheitahoo, one of the Marquesas, it amounted to hunger,... | |
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... exuberant descriptions which have sometimes been given of these delightful spots. The not unfrequent pressure of want, even in Otaheite, mentioned in Captain Cook's last voyage, has undeceived us with regard to the most fertile of all these islands;... 