A Lady's Cruise in a French Man-of-war, Volume 2 |
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Page 46
... Polynesia , and many and varied are its associations with people and things . " Oh , my plaid was dear to me ! " and deeply do I abhor the covetous thief who has robbed me , so infinitely beyond the value of a few fathoms of tartan ...
... Polynesia , and many and varied are its associations with people and things . " Oh , my plaid was dear to me ! " and deeply do I abhor the covetous thief who has robbed me , so infinitely beyond the value of a few fathoms of tartan ...
Page 65
... Polynesia , and entailed divers diseases , and even death , on those who rashly tampered with things belonging to high chiefs . The other day a man walked past this door carrying a bunch of roses . Mrs Green was going to take one , when ...
... Polynesia , and entailed divers diseases , and even death , on those who rashly tampered with things belonging to high chiefs . The other day a man walked past this door carrying a bunch of roses . Mrs Green was going to take one , when ...
Page 72
... Polynesian groups the natives declare that influenza was never known till white men came ; and now it is one of the regular scourges of the Pacific , returning almost every year in a greater or less degree , but occasionally proving ...
... Polynesian groups the natives declare that influenza was never known till white men came ; and now it is one of the regular scourges of the Pacific , returning almost every year in a greater or less degree , but occasionally proving ...
Page 168
... Polynesia the same custom exists . Hence early travellers wrote of Hawaii , Tahiti , Samoa , as O- whyhee , O - taheiti , O - samoa ; and the same with reference to names of persons . Another point which to me appears to support the ...
... Polynesia the same custom exists . Hence early travellers wrote of Hawaii , Tahiti , Samoa , as O- whyhee , O - taheiti , O - samoa ; and the same with reference to names of persons . Another point which to me appears to support the ...
Page 169
... Polynesian type , and some allow it to grow long and smooth by not dyeing it with lime . Yet another argument in ... Polynesians , with their firmly knit , mus- cular limbs , and stately yet graceful bearing . The race increased in ...
... Polynesian type , and some allow it to grow long and smooth by not dyeing it with lime . Yet another argument in ... Polynesians , with their firmly knit , mus- cular limbs , and stately yet graceful bearing . The race increased in ...
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