Brown Men and Women: Or, The South Sea Islands in 1895 and 1896Swan Sonnenschein & Company, 1898 - 294 páginas |
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... green back- ground of dense flax - some of its leaves , eight feet high , are yet over- hung by tall brown stems , topped with purple flowers - the two Maori girls might well be taken for beau - ideals of the brown woman , meet ...
... green back- ground of dense flax - some of its leaves , eight feet high , are yet over- hung by tall brown stems , topped with purple flowers - the two Maori girls might well be taken for beau - ideals of the brown woman , meet ...
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... green root . I remember once some of our men went to visit a Tongan family , and one young sailor got larking with the girls , so for fun the women served him a trick . They pounded a little of the green kava root , and made him drink ...
... green root . I remember once some of our men went to visit a Tongan family , and one young sailor got larking with the girls , so for fun the women served him a trick . They pounded a little of the green kava root , and made him drink ...
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... green leaves and flowers , marched straight into his house and coolly arrested him . ' You our prisoner ! Your men guilty of bad words to our women making mats on the beach yesterday — you remember ? So you come along with us to Oinafa ...
... green leaves and flowers , marched straight into his house and coolly arrested him . ' You our prisoner ! Your men guilty of bad words to our women making mats on the beach yesterday — you remember ? So you come along with us to Oinafa ...
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... green sky , stand , as it were , right out of the ocean , the feathery tops of cocoanut trees , and nearer , puff ! puff ! puff ! one after another , stretching almost a mile along the horizon , like shells fired from a line of forts ...
... green sky , stand , as it were , right out of the ocean , the feathery tops of cocoanut trees , and nearer , puff ! puff ! puff ! one after another , stretching almost a mile along the horizon , like shells fired from a line of forts ...
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... the great deeps . A sharp - cut , yet imaginary , distant line the edge of the unseen coral which underlies the whole island , and creeps far out to sea- divides the purple from a pale green broad expanse , 60 Brown Men and Women.
... the great deeps . A sharp - cut , yet imaginary , distant line the edge of the unseen coral which underlies the whole island , and creeps far out to sea- divides the purple from a pale green broad expanse , 60 Brown Men and Women.
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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.