Brown Men and Women: Or, The South Sea Islands in 1895 and 1896Swan Sonnenschein & Company, 1898 - 294 páginas |
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... appear in A Modern Buccaneer and in Through Atolls and Islands in the Great South Sea , and in several other books ; but they hardly touch the tragedies of this career . Those who knew most held their peace . The fact is , many of the ...
... appear in A Modern Buccaneer and in Through Atolls and Islands in the Great South Sea , and in several other books ; but they hardly touch the tragedies of this career . Those who knew most held their peace . The fact is , many of the ...
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... appears and is made fast . By its aid the men are helped through the breakers . Soon the beach is littered with cargo tossed in , on every wave , from the crashing wreck , to the very feet of the eager children who press down to the ...
... appears and is made fast . By its aid the men are helped through the breakers . Soon the beach is littered with cargo tossed in , on every wave , from the crashing wreck , to the very feet of the eager children who press down to the ...
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... appear to me . I am in hopes that the truth , as I find it , will be a novelty ; I was going to say , a refreshing novelty . I fear it will be too tame to be so designated . You see , though I have been among interesting aboriginal ...
... appear to me . I am in hopes that the truth , as I find it , will be a novelty ; I was going to say , a refreshing novelty . I fear it will be too tame to be so designated . You see , though I have been among interesting aboriginal ...
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... appear to us very brilliant , perhaps because there is no Mark Twain on board to draw him out . But chief and most constant of smokers is a short , stout , genial German trader who keeps us all alive when he is awake , and more so when ...
... appear to us very brilliant , perhaps because there is no Mark Twain on board to draw him out . But chief and most constant of smokers is a short , stout , genial German trader who keeps us all alive when he is awake , and more so when ...
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... appears my boys , seeing a horse exactly like mine in a native village , had seized it , and the whole village , aroused at the theft of their horse , had followed . " This , ' I said , looking at the animal in the dim light , ' is my ...
... appears my boys , seeing a horse exactly like mine in a native village , had seized it , and the whole village , aroused at the theft of their horse , had followed . " This , ' I said , looking at the animal in the dim light , ' is my ...
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Palavras e frases frequentes
Aitutaki Apia ashore Auckland Baker bananas boat bread-fruit brown called canoes captain ceremony chiefs clothes cocoanut colonial colour Cook Group cool copra coral customs dancing dark dollars dress drink English European feet Fiji Fijians French friends fruit girls give Government Haapai half-caste hands harbour head honour Huahine inhabitants kava King labour ladies Lakalaka lala land leaves Lifuka liquor live look Maori married mats Melanesia miles minister mission missionary Moorea Moulton native never night Nukualofa official oranges Pacific pandanus Papeëte Parliament passengers pigs political Premier Queen race Raiatea Rarotonga reef religious Rokotui round Samoa side Society Society Islands Solomon Island South Sea Island standing steamer Suva Tahiti Tahitian things Tonga Tongatabu town trade trees Tubou Vavau village Wesleyan Church whole wife woman women yams young Zealand
Passagens conhecidas
Página 23 - There the passions cramp'd no longer shall have scope and breathing space I will take some savage woman, she shall rear my dusky race. Iron-jointed, supple-sinew'd, they shall dive, and they shall run, Catch the wild goat by the hair, and hurl their lances in' the sun; Whistle back the parrot's call, and leap the rainbows of the brooks, Not with blinded eyesight poring over miserable books...
Página 60 - Roll on, thou deep and dark blue Ocean, roll ! Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain ; Man marks the earth with ruin, his control Stops with the shore ; upon the watery plain The wrecks are all thy deed...
Página 197 - Come, my friends, Tis not too late to seek a newer world. Push off, and sitting well in order smite The sounding furrows; for my purpose holds To sail beyond the sunset, and the baths Of all the western stars, until I die. It may be that the gulfs will wash us down: It may be we shall touch the Happy Isles, And see the great Achilles whom we knew. Tho' much is taken, much abides; and tho...
Página 17 - ... what that was: he accordingly pronounced aloud the name of the king, upon which Finow snatched the paper from his hand, and, with astonishment, looked at it, turned it round, and examined it in all directions: at length he exclaimed, "This is neither like myself nor any body else! where are my legs? how do you know it to be I?
Página 232 - Beyond the pomp of dress; for loveliness Needs not the foreign aid of ornament, But is when unadorned adorned the most.
Página 281 - Fear none of those things which thou shalt suffer : behold, the devil shall cast some of you into prison, that ye may be tried ; and ye shall have tribulation ten days : be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life.
Página 23 - Never comes the trader, never floats an European flag, Slides the bird o'er lustrous woodland, swings the trailer from the crag; Droops the heavy-blossom'd bower, hangs the heavy-fruited tree — Summer isles of Eden lying in dark-purple spheres of sea.
Página 117 - God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains! that we should, with joy, pleasance, revel and applause, transform ourselves into beasts!
Página 143 - Larger constellations burning, mellow moons and happy skies, Breadths of tropic shade and palms in cluster, knots of Paradise.
Página 143 - Or to burst all links of habit — there to wander far away, On from island unto island at the gateways of the day.