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... ROUND TAHITI -LIFE DAY BY DAY- HIMÈNES — A BEAUTIFUL SHORE - MANUFACTURE OF ARROW- ROOT FLOWERS - A DESERTED COTTON PLANTATION - TAHI- TIAN DANCING THE AREOIS VANILLA PLANTATIONS FORT OF TARAVAO , - • - CHAPTER XIV . PAGE 1 THE ROYAL ...
... ROUND TAHITI -LIFE DAY BY DAY- HIMÈNES — A BEAUTIFUL SHORE - MANUFACTURE OF ARROW- ROOT FLOWERS - A DESERTED COTTON PLANTATION - TAHI- TIAN DANCING THE AREOIS VANILLA PLANTATIONS FORT OF TARAVAO , - • - CHAPTER XIV . PAGE 1 THE ROYAL ...
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... ROUND TAHITI LIFE DAY BY DAY HIMÈNES- - A BEAUTIFUL SHORE - - MANUFACTURE OF ARROW- - FORT OF ROOT FLOWERS - A DESERTED COTTON PLANTATION - TAHITIAN DANCING THE AREOIS VANILLA PLANTATIONS TARAVAO . PAEA , TAHITI , Monday , Oct. 15 ...
... ROUND TAHITI LIFE DAY BY DAY HIMÈNES- - A BEAUTIFUL SHORE - - MANUFACTURE OF ARROW- - FORT OF ROOT FLOWERS - A DESERTED COTTON PLANTATION - TAHITIAN DANCING THE AREOIS VANILLA PLANTATIONS TARAVAO . PAEA , TAHITI , Monday , Oct. 15 ...
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... round hybiscus - leaves - we ate off foreign plates , with knives and forks of best electro - plate , and drank our red wine from clearest crystal glasses , and snowy napkins were not forgotten . There was a considerable consumption of ...
... round hybiscus - leaves - we ate off foreign plates , with knives and forks of best electro - plate , and drank our red wine from clearest crystal glasses , and snowy napkins were not forgotten . There was a considerable consumption of ...
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... rounded at both ends like the Tongan houses , with heavy thatch , and very light bamboo sides , quite transparent . Here dinner was laid , in European style , for 300 guests , —an upper table at one end , where the chiefs of the ...
... rounded at both ends like the Tongan houses , with heavy thatch , and very light bamboo sides , quite transparent . Here dinner was laid , in European style , for 300 guests , —an upper table at one end , where the chiefs of the ...
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... round bearing garlands of the delicate artificial arrowroot flowers , and crowned every one of us . Many of the party had already secured filmy plumes of the snowy reva - reva ; and the majority of the women , following the good example ...
... round bearing garlands of the delicate artificial arrowroot flowers , and crowned every one of us . Many of the party had already secured filmy plumes of the snowy reva - reva ; and the majority of the women , following the good example ...
Common terms and phrases
admiral Anaa Arawais AREOIS Ariiaue arrival arrowroot assembled bamboo bananas band barrier-reef beautiful bêche-de-mer beneath blossoms boats Brander bread-fruit breakfast bright canoe carried charming chief Christians church cocoa-nut cocoa-palm colour coral course crags dance delicate delight district divers early excellent Fautawa favour feast feet fibre Fiji fish flowers foliage French friends fruit Gilbert Islanders green guava Happily harbour heathen himènes Honolulu hybiscus idols island King Pomare lagoon land leaves lovely luxury mangoes marae Maramma Marau Marquesas Mata Mata miles mission missionaries Moorea morning mountains native neighbours never night offered palm pandanus Papeete party Paumotus plantation pleasant Polynesia pretty Queen reef round sail Samoa Sandwich Isles scarlet seems seen Seignelay shells ship shore sort South Sea stone strange Tahiti Tahitian tattooed Tetiaroa tion Tonga trees valley vanilla vessel village whole wild women yellow