A Lady's Cruise in a French Man-of-war, Volume 2 |
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Page 5
... strange and beautiful part - songs . Afterwards 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 ...
... strange and beautiful part - songs . Afterwards 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 ...
Page 12
... strange fantastic form , seamed by deep valleys , down which pour crystal streams , so numerous that the sparkling air seems to re - echo the musical voice of many waters . Every weird fantastic rock - pinnacle is draped by clinging ...
... strange fantastic form , seamed by deep valleys , down which pour crystal streams , so numerous that the sparkling air seems to re - echo the musical voice of many waters . Every weird fantastic rock - pinnacle is draped by clinging ...
Page 17
... strange that no enterprising person should have stepped in to buy up the estate which , at the time of Mr Stewart's death , was in such good working order ; but , like everything else in this country , it has suffered from the meddling ...
... strange that no enterprising person should have stepped in to buy up the estate which , at the time of Mr Stewart's death , was in such good working order ; but , like everything else in this country , it has suffered from the meddling ...
Page 22
... strange ( accustomed as I now am to the endlessly varied and most graceful dances of the Fijians ) to find that these Tahitians have ap- parently no notion of dancing , except this Upa - upa , which for many years was discountenanced by ...
... strange ( accustomed as I now am to the endlessly varied and most graceful dances of the Fijians ) to find that these Tahitians have ap- parently no notion of dancing , except this Upa - upa , which for many years was discountenanced by ...
Page 24
... strange to read the regrets , expressed by various travellers , that the missionaries should have seen fit to dis- courage it , as if in so doing they had deprived the TRUE WINDFALLS . 25 people of some delightful pleasure . 24 A LADY'S ...
... strange to read the regrets , expressed by various travellers , that the missionaries should have seen fit to dis- courage it , as if in so doing they had deprived the TRUE WINDFALLS . 25 people of some delightful pleasure . 24 A LADY'S ...
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