 | George Robert Charles Herbert Pembroke (13th Earl of), George Henry Kingsley - Oceania - 1872 - 332 pages
...by the missionaries, it will prove but a hollow one if all I hear is true.* Behind the coco-fringe, the land sweeps up into lovely wooded hills some four...of the Society Islands, but marked with beautiful 1 This has since proved to be correct. If they had been allowed to fight it out at once it would have... | |
 | George R. C. Herbert (Earl of Pembroke.), George Henry Kingsley - Oceania - 1873 - 348 pages
...the missionaries ; it will prove but a hollow one if all I hear is true. * Behind the coco-fringe, the land sweeps up into lovely wooded hills some four...mysterious heart of the hills, where many a strange and weird thing may be enacting at this moment in the gloom of the forest. Par away is the gleam and glitter... | |
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... caused by the too evenly-balanced state of the different parties. There is a truce for the moment patched up, I think mistakenly, by the missionaries ; it will prove but a hollow one if all I hear is true. * Behind the coco-fringe, the land sweeps... 