Peoples & Problems of the Pacific, Volume 1T.F. Unwin, Limited, 1927 - 327 pages |
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Page 256 - I will arise and go to my father, and say unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and before thee, and am no more worthy to be called thy son : make me as one of thy hired servants.
Page 74 - You shall be black, because your minds are bad, and shall be destitute. You shall not be wise in useful things, neither shall you go to the great land of your brothers. How can you go with your bad canoes ? But your brothers shall come to Tonga, and trade with you as they please.
Page 148 - ... it would be the most natural thing in the world for him to push across straits with his family to new islands in pursuit of sustenance.
Page 74 - Put your canoes to sea, and sail to the east, to the great land which is there, and take up your abode there. Be your skins white like your minds, for your minds are pure; you shall be wise, making axes, and all riches whatsoever, and shall have large canoes. I will go myself and command the wind to blow from your land to Tonga; but they (the Tonga people), shall not be able to go to you with their bad canoes.
Page 152 - Europeans discovered the two islands at the end of the eighteenth or beginning of the nineteenth century, both had their full complement of inhabitants.
Page 78 - ... is idle to' pretend to see in it the fountain of a system of philosophy. In the famous " Ode on Intimations of Immortality," the poet doubtless does point to a set of philosophic ideas, more or less complete; but the thought from which he sets out, that our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting...
Page 189 - One of these is sketched and described; it is manifestly a truncated pyramid with a lower terrace like the tombs of the Tuitongas or priest-rulers of the Tongan Group, except that these latter have the blocks that form them carefully chiselled. It also affiliates with the pyramids of the sun and moon on the coastal belt of Peru, and with the...
Page 55 - Time lost through absence without good cause shall be added to the term of the engagement. 2. A labourer may further be retained after his term of engagement expires as a punishment for breaches of discipline to which he has been duly sentenced. In such case, the additional period of labour shall not exceed two months for each year of engagement.
Page 190 - And. like that great megalithic city, the work could not have been accomplished without such surplus wealth and such armies of labour, as could not be procured In the present state of the Pacific from all the archipelagoes within a radius of several thousands of miles. Mr. Bloxam, the diarist, remarks, In his quiet, restrained way: 'Great labour and Industry, and much time, must have been occupied in the task of erection.
Page 191 - Sunk.—Nor is this the only evidence of organised communities, if not empires, having vanished in the bosom of the Pacific. I have already indicated that the great ruins on the reefs of Ponape cannot be explained without assuming a submerged empire with millions of inhabitants.