A Lady's Cruise in a French Man-of-war, Volume 2 |
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Page 8
... flowers . Then we adjourned to the grassy shore , and watched the clear full moon rise from the calm sea , while the glee - singers sang their soft beautiful choruses . A few men and one or two women began the same hideous dance with ...
... flowers . Then we adjourned to the grassy shore , and watched the clear full moon rise from the calm sea , while the glee - singers sang their soft beautiful choruses . A few men and one or two women began the same hideous dance with ...
Page 13
... flowers and twists of the glossy arrowroot fibre , each stitched on separately . To the queen , the admiral , and ... flower - stalk , which is a hollow stem like that of hemlock , and grows to a height of about four feet . These stalks ...
... flowers and twists of the glossy arrowroot fibre , each stitched on separately . To the queen , the admiral , and ... flower - stalk , which is a hollow stem like that of hemlock , and grows to a height of about four feet . These stalks ...
Page 21
... flowers , and crowned every one of us . Many of the party had already secured filmy plumes of the snowy reva - reva ; and the majority of the women , following the good example of Marau , no longer pretend to have cut off their ...
... flowers , and crowned every one of us . Many of the party had already secured filmy plumes of the snowy reva - reva ; and the majority of the women , following the good example of Marau , no longer pretend to have cut off their ...
Page 33
... flower , like jessamine , with which they crowned us . This village is poor ; so instead of receiving us in a fine district house , the people had erected very picturesque booths on three sides of a square . The chorus - singers were ...
... flower , like jessamine , with which they crowned us . This village is poor ; so instead of receiving us in a fine district house , the people had erected very picturesque booths on three sides of a square . The chorus - singers were ...
Page 52
... flowers of the sea are shoals of the most exquisite minute fishes , which dart through the crystal water like rays of opal . Now it is a group of turquoise blue , like forget - me - nots of the deep , and as they vanish DAINTY FISHES ...
... flowers of the sea are shoals of the most exquisite minute fishes , which dart through the crystal water like rays of opal . Now it is a group of turquoise blue , like forget - me - nots of the deep , and as they vanish DAINTY FISHES ...
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