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... priest , is the architect of a handsome wooden church now in process of erection . ( When the Seignelay touched at the Wallis Isles on their way to Fiji , the bishop consecrated a really very fine new church there ; and as the Roman ...
... priest , is the architect of a handsome wooden church now in process of erection . ( When the Seignelay touched at the Wallis Isles on their way to Fiji , the bishop consecrated a really very fine new church there ; and as the Roman ...
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... of gold brocade with scarlet linings -the mitre , which was put off and on so frequently at different parts of the service , and all the other ecclesiastical symbols . The friendly priests , too , were hard to recognise in.
... of gold brocade with scarlet linings -the mitre , which was put off and on so frequently at different parts of the service , and all the other ecclesiastical symbols . The friendly priests , too , were hard to recognise in.
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Constance Frederica Gordon Cumming. friendly priests , too , were hard to recognise in their richly brocaded vestments ; and I confess that to my irreverent eyes the predom- inance of yellow and scarlet , and a good many other things ...
Constance Frederica Gordon Cumming. friendly priests , too , were hard to recognise in their richly brocaded vestments ; and I confess that to my irreverent eyes the predom- inance of yellow and scarlet , and a good many other things ...
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... and the men had hard work to make way . On reaching Mua we found the riders awaiting us , and a great procession of priests , headed by Père Chevron , a fine grey - haired old man , who has been toiling here for thirty.
... and the men had hard work to make way . On reaching Mua we found the riders awaiting us , and a great procession of priests , headed by Père Chevron , a fine grey - haired old man , who has been toiling here for thirty.
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... priests . In the course of our walk we saw some lovely little pigeons , bright green with purple head , and a number of larger ones , green and yellow . Also many small bats skimming about the cocoa- palms , darting to and fro in ...
... priests . In the course of our walk we saw some lovely little pigeons , bright green with purple head , and a number of larger ones , green and yellow . Also many small bats skimming about the cocoa- palms , darting to and fro in ...
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