From Saranac to the Marquesas and Beyond: Being Letters Written by Mrs. M. I. Stevenson During 1887-88, to Her Sister, Jane Whyte Balfour, with a Short Introduction by George W. BalfourMethuen, 1903 - 313 pages |
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From Saranac to the Marquesas and Beyond: Being Letters Written by Mrs. M.I ... Margaret Isabella Stevenson,Jane Whyte Balfour Affichage du livre entier - 1903 |
From Saranac to the Marquesas and Beyond: Being Letters Written by Mrs. M. I ... Margaret Isabella Balfour Stevenson Affichage du livre entier - 1903 |
From Saranac to the Marquesas and Beyond: Being Letters Written by Mrs. M. I ... Margaret Isabella Balfour Stevenson Affichage du livre entier - 1903 |
Expressions et termes fréquents
amusing Anaho ashore Atuona BALFOUR bananas beautiful boat bread-fruit brought cabin called cannibalism captain chief church cocoa-nut cold Colinton cook coral deck delighted dish dressed Easter Island Encyclopædia Britannica Fakarava feel feet French Frère Michel fruit gave girls green Hiva-oa holakus islands juice kind land leaves letters Lloyd look Louis and Fanny Louis's manse Marquesas missionaries Moë Monday morning mountains native never nice night Nuka-hiva once pae-pae Pandanus Papeete Paumotus Père Bruno pigs Pomare Pomare II present pretty princess R. L. Stevenson Raiatea roast Robert Louis Stevenson round sail Saranac seems shell Society Islands South Seas Stanislas strange Sunday Sunshine and Surf Tahiti Tahitian tapu tattooed Tautira tell thing to-day told took trees Valentine verandah village walk Water of Leith weather wife wonder yacht Yesterday
Fréquemment cités
Page 291 - ... and cords for his canoes ; he heals his wounds with a balsam compounded from the juice of the nut ; and with the oil extracted from its meat embalms the bodies of the dead.
Page xii - THERE is not in the wide world a valley so sweet, As that vale in whose bosom the bright waters meet ; Oh ! the last rays of feeling and life must depart, Ere the bloom of that valley shall fade from my heart.
Page xii - Lo ! such the child whose early feet The paths of peace have trod, Whose secret heart, with influence sweet, Is upward drawn to God. 3 By cool Siloam's shady rill The lily must decay ; The rose, that blooms beneath the hill, Must shortly fade away.
Page 63 - From the deck you step down into the cockpit, which is our open-air drawing-room. It has seats all round, nicely cushioned, and we sit or lie there most of the day. The compass is there, and the wheel, so the man at the wheel always keeps us company.
Page 291 - The blessings it confers are incalculable. Year after year, the islander reposes beneath its shade, both eating and drinking of its fruit ; he thatches his hut with its boughs, and weaves them into baskets to carry his food ; he cools himself with a fan...
Page 301 - Pomare gave directions to his people to destroy the idolatrous temple, he said, " go not to the little island where the women and children have been left for security ; turn not aside to the villages or plantations ; neither enter into the houses, nor destroy any property, but go straight along the high road, through all your late enemy's districts.
Page 242 - ... Ori a Ori (otherwise known as Teriitera), they are what gives substance to a person and character. In 1888, when the Stevensons were more than two months the guests of Ori a Ori in Tautira, Fanny (Stevenson's wife), whom the chief called Jaffini Tuta (the maker of shadows), made silhouettes of him by 'taking the shadow of his head on the wall, with the help of a lamp, drawing the outline and then filling it in with Indian ink' (From Saranac to the Marquesas and Beyond 242).
Page 287 - In these regions may be seen islands in every stage of their formation : " some presenting little more than a point or summit of a branching coralline pyramid, at a depth scarcely discernible through the transparent waters ; others spreading, like submarine gardens or shrubberies, beneath the surface ; or presenting here and there a little bank of broken coral and sand, over which the rolling wave occasionally breaks...
Page 288 - ... sometimes bent like a horseshoe ; the bank of soil or rock is seldom more than half a mile or a mile across, yet it is often clothed with the richest verdure. Within this enclosure is a space, sometimes of great extent. In the island of Hao, the Bow Island of Captain Cook, it is said, ships may sail many miles after entering the lagoon. The narrow strip of coral and sand enclosing the basin is sixty or seventy miles in length, although exceedingly narrow.
Page 261 - ... fifty miles in circumference ; the mountains are lofty, bold in outline, and either clothed with verdure, or adorned with plantations ; cascades roll over the sides of the mountains, and streams flow through the valleys. The land capable of cultivation, however, is comparatively small, as the islands are not protected, like most others in the Pacific, by coral reefs. The sea extends to the base of the mountains, and thus prevents the formation and preservation of that low border of prolific alluvial...