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... feasts without a toil , The courteous manners , but from nature caught , The wealth unhoarded , and the love unbought . The soil where every cottage showed a home , The sea - spread net , the lightly launched canoe , Which stemmed the ...
... feasts without a toil , The courteous manners , but from nature caught , The wealth unhoarded , and the love unbought . The soil where every cottage showed a home , The sea - spread net , the lightly launched canoe , Which stemmed the ...
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... feast . My comrades congratulated one another that such viands did not often fall to their lot ! Immediately after breakfast we started on our return journey with a high tide . Wind and current being in our favour , we flew down the ...
... feast . My comrades congratulated one another that such viands did not often fall to their lot ! Immediately after breakfast we started on our return journey with a high tide . Wind and current being in our favour , we flew down the ...
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Constance Frederica Gordon Cumming. NIGHT CHILLS AND DEWS . 23 The feast being over , le Roi kanaque departed amid blue and green lights , one of which was reserved for us - i.e . , the ecclesi- astical party - returning to the priest's ...
Constance Frederica Gordon Cumming. NIGHT CHILLS AND DEWS . 23 The feast being over , le Roi kanaque departed amid blue and green lights , one of which was reserved for us - i.e . , the ecclesi- astical party - returning to the priest's ...
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... feast , and then I settled down to do a bird's - eye sketch of the strange world out- spread below , while gentle and rather pretty brown girls , with sienna hair , sat by , peeling oranges by the dozen , with which they fed us all ...
... feast , and then I settled down to do a bird's - eye sketch of the strange world out- spread below , while gentle and rather pretty brown girls , with sienna hair , sat by , peeling oranges by the dozen , with which they fed us all ...
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... feast , the way in which women , wearing trains of tappa , were going about all day , carrying bowls of kava to the orators , and other symptoms evident to prac- tised eyes . Many of the men wore beautiful crowns of Pearly Nautilus ...
... feast , the way in which women , wearing trains of tappa , were going about all day , carrying bowls of kava to the orators , and other symptoms evident to prac- tised eyes . Many of the men wore beautiful crowns of Pearly Nautilus ...
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