Diversions of a Prime MinisterBlackwood, 1894 - 407 páginas |
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... Islands , " about 1000 miles north of New Zealand , 300 miles east of Fiji , and 350 south of Samoa . I count among the Tongans so many true friends that it would touch me nearly if I should seem in the follow- ing pages to have been ...
... Islands , " about 1000 miles north of New Zealand , 300 miles east of Fiji , and 350 south of Samoa . I count among the Tongans so many true friends that it would touch me nearly if I should seem in the follow- ing pages to have been ...
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... Islands . Martin . Erskine's Voyage . Dillon's Voyage . D'Urville's Voyage . Wilkes's Narrative of the United States Exploring Expedition . Farmer's Tonga . West's Ten Years in Polynesia . Missionary Records . Wreck of the Minerva Brig ...
... Islands . Martin . Erskine's Voyage . Dillon's Voyage . D'Urville's Voyage . Wilkes's Narrative of the United States Exploring Expedition . Farmer's Tonga . West's Ten Years in Polynesia . Missionary Records . Wreck of the Minerva Brig ...
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... island kingdom had generally been so uneventful , that for the first three weeks of his absence from Suva the public interest in his movements had been languid ; but when the day appointed for his return had passed , and Saimone of the ...
... island kingdom had generally been so uneventful , that for the first three weeks of his absence from Suva the public interest in his movements had been languid ; but when the day appointed for his return had passed , and Saimone of the ...
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... island was given to Germany as a coaling - station , and for his labours as interpreter between the plenipotentiaries Mr Baker received , as was right and proper , a decoration from the German Emperor . Then Unga , the premier and the ...
... island was given to Germany as a coaling - station , and for his labours as interpreter between the plenipotentiaries Mr Baker received , as was right and proper , a decoration from the German Emperor . Then Unga , the premier and the ...
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... island , living upon such food as the sympathy of the people procured for them under cover of night . On the night of January 5 , 1887 , they lay in wait for Mr Baker as he drove home in the dusk with his son and daughter . They fired ...
... island , living upon such food as the sympathy of the people procured for them under cover of night . On the night of January 5 , 1887 , they lay in wait for Mr Baker as he drove home in the dusk with his son and daughter . They fired ...
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