Travel of Georg Forster
Queen Charlotte Sound - New Zealand (Tōtaranui)
Title
Teiratu's oration at Queen Charlotte Sound
Short description
A group of natives in a canoe approaches the Resolution. Georg Forster describes the way one of them expresses himself before being invited aboard by Captain Cook.
Text on source
But the other pronounced a long speech well articulated, loud, and very solemn, and gave his voice great variety of falls and elevations. From the various tones in which he spoke, and a few gestures with which he accompanied his words, he appeared by turns to question, to boast, to threaten, to challenge, and to persuade us; he was sometimes running on in a moderate tone, then all at once breaking out into violent exclamations; after which he made short pauses in order to recover his breath.
English translation
Folios/Pages
p. 224
Date
1773 06 04
Observations on the events description
The dots on the map indicate the places where sound and music events were described. They don't represent travel stages.
Participants
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Cook, James
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How to quote
Fabbrocino A. P., "Teiratu's oration at Queen Charlotte Sound" (Event description), Echos. Sound Ecosystems in Travelogues. Published 2024 03 14.
doi: 10.25430/echos.travels.76
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