| British and foreign sailors' society - 1838 - 456 pages
...missiontries have too often been counteracted , or rendered comparatively useless." ISLANDS IN THE PACIFIC. " We next turn our view to those islands in the Pacific...traffic, without having planted colonies upon them. It will be hard, we think, to find compensation, not only to Australia, but to New Zealand, and to... | |
| Ireland - 1839 - 812 pages
...committee of the House of Commons, on the aborigines, is strictly true. •' We next turn our view to the islands in the Pacific Ocean, to which we resort for...compensation not only to Australia, but to New Zealand, und the innumerable islands of the South Seas, for the murders, the misery, the contamination which... | |
| Indians of North America - 1843 - 258 pages
...race, could not fail to leave an indelible stain upon the British Government ISLANDS IN THE PACIFIC. WE next turn our view to those islands in the Pacific...compensation not only to Australia, but to New Zealand and to the innumerable islands of the South Seas, for the murders, the misery, the contamination which... | |
| Asia - 1837 - 652 pages
...Government is unwillingly and unavoidably made the instrument of inflicting." The Committee next turn their view to those islands in the Pacific Ocean to which we resort for the purposes of trade, without planting colonies upon them ; and here none of the considerations which... | |
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