Peoples & Problems of the Pacific, Volume 1T.F. Unwin, Limited, 1927 - 327 pages |
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aitu amongst ancient archipelago Austral beach British Caledonia canoes Carolines carved century chief civilisation coast coco-nut Cook coral culture custom dead death east Easter Island Ellice European evidently face feet Fiji Fijian fish French German ghosts Gilbertese Gilberts great-stone Guinea hair half-caste head Hebrides Hog Harbour Hotu Matua human hundred immigrants immortality islet Japan Japanese kava labour land language Malaita Malay Malden Island Malekula Mangaia Mangareva Maori maraes Marquesas megalithic Melanesian Micronesia miles Mongoloid mountains natives natural Nauru negritto negroid neighbouring never north-west Oleai organisation Pacific Ocean Papeete Paumotus Pelews phosphates physique pigs platforms Polynesian Ponape population primeval primitive race Raivavai Rapa Raraku reef region round sacred sailors Samoan Solomon Islands south-east statues stone Tahiti Tahitian taro tattooing temples thousands titanic Tongan tradition tropical valleys village volcanic voyage whilst women words Zealand
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Page 72 - 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 176 - The head of the chief was the most sacred part of the body ; if he only touched it with his fingers, he was obliged immediately to apply them to his nose, and snuff up the sanctity which they had acquired by the touch, and thus restore it to the part from whence it was taken...
Page 117 - This Oleai script is manifestly the product of long ages for the use of the organisers of a highly-organised community of considerable size. In other words, it must have belonged to the ruling class of an empire of some extent, that needed constant record of the facts of intercourse and organisation.
Page 72 - 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 150 - 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 76 - ... 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 194 - I allow him to do it here also — ' wonderful tales, if not absolutely true, nevertheless are important documents, if they ever were generally believed, for they contribute to the history of opinion. Besides, "there are more things between heaven and earth than are dreamed of in our philosophy.
Page 185 - Two years have passed since I saw that island. We went thither by way of Rurutu Island, and, when we found it, our captain searched for the entrance and then lowered a boat, into which he descended — there were seven of us. No one was on the beach. I was sent inland, and saw the house of the Ariki or high chief full of men ; I told the chief I came from Araura
Page 188 - He also said that. from most of the pyramid temples, paved roads stretched downwards in the direction of the sea, but that the terminus of these was in some cases as much as 40 yards from the surf, and that this space was rendered almost impassable by the masses of coral debris that covered it.
Page 188 - ... described, this latter had fallen. The architects had evidently been trained In the same school as those of Metalanim, In Ponape, though they varied their structures to fit the material they had to deal with, which was coralline slabs. Instead of basaltic columns. "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...