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... skies , The sweet siesta of a summer day , The tropic afternoon of Toobonai , When every flower was bloom , and air was balm , And the first breath began to stir the palm . " -The Island : LORD BYRON . 1 All Rights reserved.
... skies , The sweet siesta of a summer day , The tropic afternoon of Toobonai , When every flower was bloom , and air was balm , And the first breath began to stir the palm . " -The Island : LORD BYRON . 1 All Rights reserved.
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... PALM SALADS , SCREW - PINES , AND BREAD - FRUIT — PACK- ING MANGO - STONES RETURN OF GILBERT ISLANDERS- DEPARTURE OF THE SEIGNELAY , 264 CHAPTER XXV . HURRICANE AT THE PAUMOTUS - MAHENA PLANTATION - WATCHING FOR VESSELS - FAREWELL TO ...
... PALM SALADS , SCREW - PINES , AND BREAD - FRUIT — PACK- ING MANGO - STONES RETURN OF GILBERT ISLANDERS- DEPARTURE OF THE SEIGNELAY , 264 CHAPTER XXV . HURRICANE AT THE PAUMOTUS - MAHENA PLANTATION - WATCHING FOR VESSELS - FAREWELL TO ...
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... palm , gether forming a succession of the very richest foliage it is possible to conceive . Sometimes we amused ourselves by counting such few trees as are not fruit - bearing . Here and there the broad grass roads are edged with ...
... palm , gether forming a succession of the very richest foliage it is possible to conceive . Sometimes we amused ourselves by counting such few trees as are not fruit - bearing . Here and there the broad grass roads are edged with ...
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... palm - leaves and tree - ferns , and festoons of deep fringe , made of hybiscus fibre , all dyed either yellow or white : there must be miles of this fringe on that house . Yellow is happily admitted in Court mourn- ing ; so the ...
... palm - leaves and tree - ferns , and festoons of deep fringe , made of hybiscus fibre , all dyed either yellow or white : there must be miles of this fringe on that house . Yellow is happily admitted in Court mourn- ing ; so the ...
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... palm leaves - a difficult operation , re- quiring the neatest hand and long practice . As yet , I cannot produce more than a few inches unbroken . The worker keeps a split stick , stuck in the ground beside her , and into its cleft ...
... palm leaves - a difficult operation , re- quiring the neatest hand and long practice . As yet , I cannot produce more than a few inches unbroken . The worker keeps a split stick , stuck in the ground beside her , and into its cleft ...
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