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... leaf is edged with a dotted fringe of brown seed . In the Fijian Isles its beauty has gained for it the name here given ; and in olden days the ridge - poles of the temples were wreathed with it , as those of chiefs ' houses are to this ...
... leaf is edged with a dotted fringe of brown seed . In the Fijian Isles its beauty has gained for it the name here given ; and in olden days the ridge - poles of the temples were wreathed with it , as those of chiefs ' houses are to this ...
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... leaves or reeds interlaced . The houses have no stone foundation to raise them above the damp earth , and in many of the poorer huts the floors are merely strewn with dried grass instead of having neat mats , such as the poorest Fijian ...
... leaves or reeds interlaced . The houses have no stone foundation to raise them above the damp earth , and in many of the poorer huts the floors are merely strewn with dried grass instead of having neat mats , such as the poorest Fijian ...
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... leaves . Still more startling was the same monstrous form , when cunningly joined pieces of thin tortoise - shell were the materials used to imitate the brown silk bonnet of England ! We may well rejoice that these horrors are no longer ...
... leaves . Still more startling was the same monstrous form , when cunningly joined pieces of thin tortoise - shell were the materials used to imitate the brown silk bonnet of England ! We may well rejoice that these horrors are no longer ...
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... leaves . Six of the principal men then walked several times round and round the place of burial , in sunwise procession , waving the blazing torches on high ; finally , these were extinguished and laid on the ground . Then all the ...
... leaves . Six of the principal men then walked several times round and round the place of burial , in sunwise procession , waving the blazing torches on high ; finally , these were extinguished and laid on the ground . Then all the ...
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... the mysterious depths of a great inner cavern , which otherwise receives but one ray of light from a small opening far overhead , through which we saw blue sky and green leaves . No scene - painter could have devised so romantic a.
... the mysterious depths of a great inner cavern , which otherwise receives but one ray of light from a small opening far overhead , through which we saw blue sky and green leaves . No scene - painter could have devised so romantic a.
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