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... royal feast , and then I settled down to do a bird's - eye sketch of the strange world out- spread below , while gentle and rather pretty brown girls , with sienna hair , sat by , peeling oranges by the dozen , with which they fed us ...
... royal feast , and then I settled down to do a bird's - eye sketch of the strange world out- spread below , while gentle and rather pretty brown girls , with sienna hair , sat by , peeling oranges by the dozen , with which they fed us ...
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... ROYAL FAMILY- FAMILIES OF SALMON AND BRANDER - ADOPTION . H.B.M. CONSULATE , APIA , Sunday Evening , 30th September . From It is finally settled that I am really going on to Tahiti . what I have told you , you can fully understand that ...
... ROYAL FAMILY- FAMILIES OF SALMON AND BRANDER - ADOPTION . H.B.M. CONSULATE , APIA , Sunday Evening , 30th September . From It is finally settled that I am really going on to Tahiti . what I have told you , you can fully understand that ...
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... royal salute of 21 guns was fired from the vessel in honour of the event . " We are glad to recognise that in this instance the commander of an American man - of - war intervenes solely as a peacemaker , and to promote the best welfare ...
... royal salute of 21 guns was fired from the vessel in honour of the event . " We are glad to recognise that in this instance the commander of an American man - of - war intervenes solely as a peacemaker , and to promote the best welfare ...
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... Royal Society " which had sent him to explore these unknown seas . The Tahiti of to - day is doubtless a very different place from the Otaheite of 1774 . Of course , in a highly organised French colony much of the old romance must have ...
... Royal Society " which had sent him to explore these unknown seas . The Tahiti of to - day is doubtless a very different place from the Otaheite of 1774 . Of course , in a highly organised French colony much of the old romance must have ...
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... royal family being so much at sixes and sevens that there was very good reason to fear that even the semblance of the ancient rule would henceforth be dispensed with . Instead of this , the admiral devoted his whole energies to bring ...
... royal family being so much at sixes and sevens that there was very good reason to fear that even the semblance of the ancient rule would henceforth be dispensed with . Instead of this , the admiral devoted his whole energies to bring ...
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