Identifier: boytravellersina00knox (find matches)
Title: The boy travellers in Australasia : adventures of two youths in a journey to the Sandwich, Marquesas, Society, Samoan and Feejee islands, and through the colonies of New Zealand, New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, Tasmania, and South Australia
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: Knox, Thomas Wallace, 1835-1896 Harper & Brothers. pbl
Subjects: Voyages and travels Adventure and adventurers Tutors and tutoring Friendship Sailing Sailors Animals Natural history
Publisher: New York : Harper & Brothers
Contributing Library: School of Theology, Boston University
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston University

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98 THE BOY TRAVELLERS IN AUSTRALASIA. An excursion was made the next day to Point Venus, which has ahistoric interest, as it is the promontory where CajDtain Cook made theastronomical observations by which he determined the correct positionof the Society Islands. The name of the place commemorates his ob-servation of the transit of Venus which he and his scientific party madehere in 1769. It was a delightful ride along the Broom-road, as it is called, shadedby palm and bread-fruit trees, and through groves of oranges, citrons,guavas, bananas, and other tropical productions. Our friends inspectedthe light-house which is maintained here to direct the mariner approach-ing Papeiti, and Frank made a sketch of the tamarind-tree planted byCaptain Cook near the spot where he made the famous observations.
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A GROVE OF COCOANUT-TREES. AGAIN ON THE OCEAN. 99 CHAPTER V. FROM THE SOCIETY TO THE SAMOAN ISLANDS. — BEFORE THE TRADE-WINDS.—NOTES ABOUT THE MISSIONARIES. — OPPOSITION OF TRADERS TO MISSIONA-RIES. — HOW POLYNESIA WAS CHRISTIANIZED. — THE WORK OF THE MISSIONS.— REV. JOHN WILLIAMS. — ROMANTIC STORY OF THE HERVEY GROUP. — THELONDON MISSIONARY SOCIETY. — THE WESLEYAN AND OTHER MISSIONS.—DEATH OF MR. WILLIAMS.—SANDAL-WOOD TRADERS.—POLYNESIAN SLAVERY.—LABOR-VESSELS AND THE LABOR-TRADE.—HOW NATIVES WERE KIDNAPPED.—THE MISSIONARY TRICK. —THE MUTINY ON THE CARL. —CAFTl^RE OF THEDAPHNE.—110\N LABOR IS OBTAINED AT PRESENT. THE Society Islands are between latitude 16° and 18° south, andlongitude 1-18° and 155° west; the Samoan Islands, the next desti-nation of the Pera, lie in latitude 13° to 15° south, and longitude 169°

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