A Lady's Cruise in a French Man-of-war, Volume 2 |
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Page 5
... favour are of a most exquisite green colour . During breakfast , and afterwards , the glee - singers of the district sang himènes , which are the national music - most strange and beautiful part - songs . Afterwards dancing was ...
... favour are of a most exquisite green colour . During breakfast , and afterwards , the glee - singers of the district sang himènes , which are the national music - most strange and beautiful part - songs . Afterwards dancing was ...
Page 8
... 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 you the faintest shadow of ...
... 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 you the faintest shadow of ...
Page 9
... favour ; for the wild melodies of this isle are beyond measure fascinating . After one clause of solo , other voices strike in- here , there , everywhere - in harmonious chorus . It seems as if one section devoted themselves to pour ...
... favour ; for the wild melodies of this isle are beyond measure fascinating . After one clause of solo , other voices strike in- here , there , everywhere - in harmonious chorus . It seems as if one section devoted themselves to pour ...
Page 24
... favoured sinners , not one was ever suffered to live ; and any person desiring to enter the holy brotherhood , was required in the first instance to murder any children he might already have . The sect was supposed to have been divinely ...
... favoured sinners , not one was ever suffered to live ; and any person desiring to enter the holy brotherhood , was required in the first instance to murder any children he might already have . The sect was supposed to have been divinely ...
Page 34
... favour with the natives , and which in old times was the principal food of this island , as it still is in Hawaii . I do not think it was ever used in the isles further west , where the bread - fruit is a very inferior tree to what it ...
... favour with the natives , and which in old times was the principal food of this island , as it still is in Hawaii . I do not think it was ever used in the isles further west , where the bread - fruit is a very inferior tree to what it ...
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