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... 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 CONTENTS . vii CHAPTER ...
... 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 CONTENTS . vii CHAPTER ...
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... heathenism . But under French influence it has been revived ; and though the more respectable natives consider it an ... heathen days the Upa - upa was the distin- guishing dance of an atrocious sect called the Areois -religious fanatics ...
... heathenism . But under French influence it has been revived ; and though the more respectable natives consider it an ... heathen days the Upa - upa was the distin- guishing dance of an atrocious sect called the Areois -religious fanatics ...
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... heathen on such of their Christian neighbours as have pre- sumed to eat this incarnate god . About fifteen years ago , a party of about eighty persons reached Samoa , after drifting over the wide seas for several weeks . They had been ...
... heathen on such of their Christian neighbours as have pre- sumed to eat this incarnate god . About fifteen years ago , a party of about eighty persons reached Samoa , after drifting over the wide seas for several weeks . They had been ...
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... heathen . The French admiral now insisted that , in addi- tion to paying the indemnity demanded , the people of Tahiti should , at their own expense , erect a Roman Catholic church in every district where they had built one for their ...
... heathen . The French admiral now insisted that , in addi- tion to paying the indemnity demanded , the people of Tahiti should , at their own expense , erect a Roman Catholic church in every district where they had built one for their ...
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... heathenism to the faith he so nobly taught them by its practice . But just then the French authorities sold all that district to Stewart & Co. , a company of English and French merchants , who converted it into cot- ton and coffee ...
... heathenism to the faith he so nobly taught them by its practice . But just then the French authorities sold all that district to Stewart & Co. , a company of English and French merchants , who converted it into cot- ton and coffee ...
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