Note 33 — ELEGY ON CAPTAIN COOK.
Reading edition
l. 17. Chasten’d love.—Captain Cook observes, in his second voyage, that the women of Otaheite were grown more modest, and that the barbarous practice of destroying their children was lessened.
Reading edition
l. 17. Chasten’d love.—Captain Cook observes, in his second voyage, that the women of Otaheite were grown more modest, and that the barbarous practice of destroying their children was lessened.