Hood, Thomes H.:

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NOTES OF A CRUISE IN THE H.M.S. "FAWN" IN THE WESTERN PACIFIC IN THE YEAR 1862. A charming and descriptive narrative of a tour of most of the major islands of the western Pacific, including Aukland, New Zealand, New Caledonia, Fiji, Samoa, Norfolk, and the Isle of Pines, with a lengthy segment on the Pitcairn Islands. Hood writes extensively on the habits of the numerous native peoples he encountered, including thoughts on anthropology, polygamy, cannibalism, religion, child rearing, and relations with whites. "An informative work, with an interesting description of the Bounty mutineers' descendants at Norfolk Island. Scarce" - Angus & Robertson.

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