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... CRAGS- INFANTICIDE - HEATHEN DAYS , CHAPTER XXII . LIFE ON MOOREA - AN ANCIENT PLACE OF SACRIFICE - ARRIVAL OF H.M.S. SHAH - HOSPITALITIES ON LAND AND WATER CHAPTER XXIII . THE ATOLL GROUP OF TETIAROA , 93 144 175 · 189 215 . 235 258 ...
... CRAGS- INFANTICIDE - HEATHEN DAYS , CHAPTER XXII . LIFE ON MOOREA - AN ANCIENT PLACE OF SACRIFICE - ARRIVAL OF H.M.S. SHAH - HOSPITALITIES ON LAND AND WATER CHAPTER XXIII . THE ATOLL GROUP OF TETIAROA , 93 144 175 · 189 215 . 235 258 ...
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... crags and pinnacles , lofty ridges , so narrow that here and there where some part has broken away you can see the sky through an opening like the eye of a needle . Nature seems to have here built up gigantic rock - fortresses , mighty ...
... crags and pinnacles , lofty ridges , so narrow that here and there where some part has broken away you can see the sky through an opening like the eye of a needle . Nature seems to have here built up gigantic rock - fortresses , mighty ...
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... crags . Now there were no mists , and the huge pinnacles stood out sharp and clear against a cloudless sky , while far below them the riven rocks lay seamed by narrow chasms - dark sunless ravines , moist with the spray of many ...
... crags . Now there were no mists , and the huge pinnacles stood out sharp and clear against a cloudless sky , while far below them the riven rocks lay seamed by narrow chasms - dark sunless ravines , moist with the spray of many ...
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... crags and precipices , a middle distance of richest foliage , and in the fore- ground , on a lawn of greenest turf , the pretty temporary building of palm and bamboo , erected for the banquet . The interior was lined with tree - ferns ...
... crags and precipices , a middle distance of richest foliage , and in the fore- ground , on a lawn of greenest turf , the pretty temporary building of palm and bamboo , erected for the banquet . The interior was lined with tree - ferns ...
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... crags , the central range of the larger isles towering to a height of 5000 feet , while in many places inacces- sible crags rise perpendicular from the sea , but are so exquisitely draped with parasitic plants as to resemble a ...
... crags , the central range of the larger isles towering to a height of 5000 feet , while in many places inacces- sible crags rise perpendicular from the sea , but are so exquisitely draped with parasitic plants as to resemble a ...
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