Brown Men and Women: Or, The South Sea Islands in 1895 and 1896Swan Sonnenschein & Company, 1898 - 294 páginas |
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... Cocoanut - oil toilet - Second " Leading Lady " -Semi- pantomimic plays - Midnight call on prima donna's family ... Cocoanuts for the ladies Round the Island - A Queen's symphony - Sermon on blackboard - Where is the Salvation Army ...
... Cocoanut - oil toilet - Second " Leading Lady " -Semi- pantomimic plays - Midnight call on prima donna's family ... Cocoanuts for the ladies Round the Island - A Queen's symphony - Sermon on blackboard - Where is the Salvation Army ...
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... Cocoanut Plantation 153 • 23 Mataafa . 154 Samoan Chief in full dress . 26 Tamesese 155 Fijian Chief 27 Native Huts • · 157 Marquesan Warrior 29 Taupo Matautu 159 Haapai Girls 32 " The Second Leading Lady " 161 Killing Turtle - Fiji Hut ...
... Cocoanut Plantation 153 • 23 Mataafa . 154 Samoan Chief in full dress . 26 Tamesese 155 Fijian Chief 27 Native Huts • · 157 Marquesan Warrior 29 Taupo Matautu 159 Haapai Girls 32 " The Second Leading Lady " 161 Killing Turtle - Fiji Hut ...
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... cocoanut - oil . Native men and women , bought at auction or from the chiefs at Nukualofa , or Leuka , or more economically deported , at first hand , from some lonely island , were " traded away " -a euphemistic form of speech ...
... cocoanut - oil . Native men and women , bought at auction or from the chiefs at Nukualofa , or Leuka , or more economically deported , at first hand , from some lonely island , were " traded away " -a euphemistic form of speech ...
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... cocoanut oil . " The naked knights of savage chivalry . " Tongan , Samoan , Tahitian , or even Rotuman to the plainest and most simply - educated Irish , French , or Colonial girl that has been decently brought up is an insult to one's ...
... cocoanut oil . " The naked knights of savage chivalry . " Tongan , Samoan , Tahitian , or even Rotuman to the plainest and most simply - educated Irish , French , or Colonial girl that has been decently brought up is an insult to one's ...
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... cocoanut forms , at present , our chief industry , and , in connection with it and the production of oil nuts and seeds generally , I submit for your consideration the question whether it would not be more profitable to express oil in ...
... cocoanut forms , at present , our chief industry , and , in connection with it and the production of oil nuts and seeds generally , I submit for your consideration the question whether it would not be more profitable to express oil in ...
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Brown Men and Women: Or, The South Sea Islands in 1895 and 1896 Edward Reeves Visualização integral - 1898 |
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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.