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... DANCING THE AREOIS VANILLA PLANTATIONS FORT OF TARAVAO , - • - CHAPTER XIV . PAGE 1 THE ROYAL PROGRESS ROUND TAHITI ( continued ) — FRENCH -- FORT AT TARAVOU THE PENINSULA - LIFE IN BIRD - CAGE HOUSES TORCHLIGHT PROCESSION - RETURN TO ...
... DANCING THE AREOIS VANILLA PLANTATIONS FORT OF TARAVAO , - • - CHAPTER XIV . PAGE 1 THE ROYAL PROGRESS ROUND TAHITI ( continued ) — FRENCH -- FORT AT TARAVOU THE PENINSULA - LIFE IN BIRD - CAGE HOUSES TORCHLIGHT PROCESSION - RETURN TO ...
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... DANCING THE AREOIS VANILLA PLANTATIONS TARAVAO . PAEA , TAHITI , Monday , Oct. 15 , 1877 . DEAREST NELL , -We have had a long and most interesting day , and I am pretty well tired out . Still I must begin a journal letter to - night ...
... DANCING THE AREOIS VANILLA PLANTATIONS TARAVAO . PAEA , TAHITI , Monday , Oct. 15 , 1877 . DEAREST NELL , -We have had a long and most interesting day , and I am pretty well tired out . Still I must begin a journal letter to - night ...
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... eat oysters raw - we might almost say alive . To this I can answer nothing , well remembering the savage delight with which we have often knocked UNGRACEFUL DANCES . 5 our own oysters off rocks and 4 A LADY'S CRUISE .
... eat oysters raw - we might almost say alive . To this I can answer nothing , well remembering the savage delight with which we have often knocked UNGRACEFUL DANCES . 5 our own oysters off rocks and 4 A LADY'S CRUISE .
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... dancing was suggested ; but only a few men volunteered to show us the Upa - upa ― i.e . , the old national dance - which is merely an exceedingly ungraceful wriggle , involving violent exertion , till every muscle quivers , and the dancer ...
... dancing was suggested ; but only a few men volunteered to show us the Upa - upa ― i.e . , the old national dance - which is merely an exceedingly ungraceful wriggle , involving violent exertion , till every muscle quivers , and the dancer ...
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... dance with which they had favoured the company in the forenoon , but they met with small encouragement , and the singers carried the day- or rather the night . I wish it were possible for me to describe Tahitian himènes so as to give ...
... dance with which they had favoured the company in the forenoon , but they met with small encouragement , and the singers carried the day- or rather the night . I wish it were possible for me to describe Tahitian himènes so as to give ...
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