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Life in a French man-of-war — Convent-life in Tonga — Early martyrs —
Wesleyan mission-vRoman Catholic mission — Cyclopean tombs at Mua —
Gigantic trilithon — Fines and taxes — King George Tupou, . 3 CHAPTER III. Sail
from Tonga ...
Life in a French man-of-war — Convent-life in Tonga — Early martyrs —
Wesleyan mission-vRoman Catholic mission — Cyclopean tombs at Mua —
Gigantic trilithon — Fines and taxes — King George Tupou, . 3 CHAPTER III. Sail
from Tonga ...
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John Williams determines to visit the Navigator's Isles — Preliminary work in the
Hervcy group — Discovery of Rarotonga — Conversion of its people — They
help Williams to build a ship which shall convey him to Samoa — Visit Tonga ...
John Williams determines to visit the Navigator's Isles — Preliminary work in the
Hervcy group — Discovery of Rarotonga — Conversion of its people — They
help Williams to build a ship which shall convey him to Samoa — Visit Tonga ...
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This evening we sail for the Friendly Isles (Tonga), and thence proceed to the
Navigator's Isles (Samoa), where there have been serious disturbances, and
where my friend Mrs Liardet, wife of the British Consul, has for some time had
about ...
This evening we sail for the Friendly Isles (Tonga), and thence proceed to the
Navigator's Isles (Samoa), where there have been serious disturbances, and
where my friend Mrs Liardet, wife of the British Consul, has for some time had
about ...
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I will write next from Tonga. CHAPTER IL LIFE IN A FRENCH MAN-OF-WAR —
CONVENT-LIFE IN TONGA — EARLY MARTYRS— WESLEYAN MISSION —
ROMAN CATHOLIC MISSION — CYCLOPEAN TOMBS AT MUA — OIOANTIO ...
I will write next from Tonga. CHAPTER IL LIFE IN A FRENCH MAN-OF-WAR —
CONVENT-LIFE IN TONGA — EARLY MARTYRS— WESLEYAN MISSION —
ROMAN CATHOLIC MISSION — CYCLOPEAN TOMBS AT MUA — OIOANTIO ...
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We are now about 250 miles east of Fiji, and sighted land this afternoon ; we
have just anchored off Tonga, which certainly compares unfavourably with our
beautiful Fijian isles. This is the dullest, flattest land I have yet seen — a low
shore, ...
We are now about 250 miles east of Fiji, and sighted land this afternoon ; we
have just anchored off Tonga, which certainly compares unfavourably with our
beautiful Fijian isles. This is the dullest, flattest land I have yet seen — a low
shore, ...
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| Title | A Lady's Cruise in a French Man-of-war, Volume 2 Nineteenth Century Collections Online (NCCO): Women: Transnational Networks |
| Author | Constance Frederica Gordon Cumming |
| Publisher | William Blackwood and Sons, 1882 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 6 Mar 2007 |
| Length | 365 pages |
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