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Page 89
... of reaching Sydney for Christmas , it was on the principle of Jules Verne's ' Round the World in Eighty Days . ' They say that to attempt fitting the Sandwich Isles volcanoes into the time is preposterous folly . I think they are.
... of reaching Sydney for Christmas , it was on the principle of Jules Verne's ' Round the World in Eighty Days . ' They say that to attempt fitting the Sandwich Isles volcanoes into the time is preposterous folly . I think they are.
Page 94
... Sandwich Isles , and then return to New Zealand or Sydney before Christmas , as I had proposed doing . Neither did I at all realise how very few travel- lers have ever seen the Marquesas , and how very little is known about them by the ...
... Sandwich Isles , and then return to New Zealand or Sydney before Christmas , as I had proposed doing . Neither did I at all realise how very few travel- lers have ever seen the Marquesas , and how very little is known about them by the ...
Page 107
... Sandwich Isles , accompanied by their wives , and contrived to endure eight months in Nukuheva , endeavouring to tame and Christianise its brutal savages ; but they also had to give up the at- tempt . In 1834 , a fresh party of English ...
... Sandwich Isles , accompanied by their wives , and contrived to endure eight months in Nukuheva , endeavouring to tame and Christianise its brutal savages ; but they also had to give up the at- tempt . In 1834 , a fresh party of English ...
Page 300
... Sandwich Isles nothing further has been heard . Both ships belong to Mrs Brander . The former - the Paloma - is called after her little daughter ; the latter — the Maramma -bears one of her own names . A hundred times TAHITI WHEN AT ...
... Sandwich Isles nothing further has been heard . Both ships belong to Mrs Brander . The former - the Paloma - is called after her little daughter ; the latter — the Maramma -bears one of her own names . A hundred times TAHITI WHEN AT ...
Page 308
... Sandwich Isles , and yet had not the kindness to blow us close to Honolu- lu , where I might have met some vessel running in and transhipped , -Captain Nissen would not have dared to land me himself , as he would thereby have broken his ...
... Sandwich Isles , and yet had not the kindness to blow us close to Honolu- lu , where I might have met some vessel running in and transhipped , -Captain Nissen would not have dared to land me himself , as he would thereby have broken his ...
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