A Lady's Cruise in a French Man-of-war, Volume 2 |
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Page 71
... offered by foreign ships . Evidently drunkenness is no longer admired as a kingly attribute , for the Raiateans banished the present Tamatoa , who was formerly their king , because of his disagreeable habit of taking pot- shots at his ...
... offered by foreign ships . Evidently drunkenness is no longer admired as a kingly attribute , for the Raiateans banished the present Tamatoa , who was formerly their king , because of his disagreeable habit of taking pot- shots at his ...
Page 83
... offered to the cruel gods . At a distance of about two miles from this village there is a brackish lake - Lake Temae - about a mile in length . It contains good fish , and many wild - duck haunt its sedgy and very muddy shores . Under ...
... offered to the cruel gods . At a distance of about two miles from this village there is a brackish lake - Lake Temae - about a mile in length . It contains good fish , and many wild - duck haunt its sedgy and very muddy shores . Under ...
Page 97
... offered a desperate resistance , and repulsed the allied forces , who , however , consoled themselves by burning every vil- lage they could reach , thus giving the inhabitants good cause to hate the white men's ships . But Now , with ...
... offered a desperate resistance , and repulsed the allied forces , who , however , consoled themselves by burning every vil- lage they could reach , thus giving the inhabitants good cause to hate the white men's ships . But Now , with ...
Page 98
Constance Frederica Gordon Cumming. The said insults were very much like those offered by the lamb to the wolf in the old fable , the pretext raked up being simply that Queen Pomare and all her people , having already become stanch ...
Constance Frederica Gordon Cumming. The said insults were very much like those offered by the lamb to the wolf in the old fable , the pretext raked up being simply that Queen Pomare and all her people , having already become stanch ...
Page 100
... offered to lend the 1 We can scarcely describe this proceeding as the thin end of the wedge , but it was obvious from the beginning that the assump- tion of the Protectorate was merely a cloak for forcibly taking pos- session of these ...
... offered to lend the 1 We can scarcely describe this proceeding as the thin end of the wedge , but it was obvious from the beginning that the assump- tion of the Protectorate was merely a cloak for forcibly taking pos- session of these ...
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