Polynesian Researches, During a Residence of Nearly Six Years in the South Sea Islands, Including Descriptions of the Natural History and Scenery of the Islands, with Remarks on the History, Mythology, Traditions, Government, Arts, Manners, and Customs of the Inhabitants, Volume 2Fisher, Son, & Jackson, 1829 - 576 pages |
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... designed for warriors . The forehead is sometimes low , but frequently high and finely formed ; the eye - brows are dark and well de- fined , occasionally arched , but more generally straight ; the eyes seldom large , but bright and ...
... designed for warriors . The forehead is sometimes low , but frequently high and finely formed ; the eye - brows are dark and well de- fined , occasionally arched , but more generally straight ; the eyes seldom large , but bright and ...
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... designed to convey by this declaration , it is perhaps not easy to ascertain ; but the people say it is next to impossible that the masts should be sustained , the sails attached , or the vessel worked , without ropes or cordage . They ...
... designed to convey by this declaration , it is perhaps not easy to ascertain ; but the people say it is next to impossible that the masts should be sustained , the sails attached , or the vessel worked , without ropes or cordage . They ...
Page 72
... designed , became a kind of test of sincerity in professions of desire to be instructed ; for to embrace Christianity , with the precepts which it inculcated , nothing could be more at variance than the habits of indolence and unsightly ...
... designed , became a kind of test of sincerity in professions of desire to be instructed ; for to embrace Christianity , with the precepts which it inculcated , nothing could be more at variance than the habits of indolence and unsightly ...
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... designed as a model by which the natives were to be encouraged to build their own , but a place of security for the property , which he was recommended to enclose with a spacious native building : and the pursuits of its present occu ...
... designed as a model by which the natives were to be encouraged to build their own , but a place of security for the property , which he was recommended to enclose with a spacious native building : and the pursuits of its present occu ...
Page 125
... designed to keep the head cool ; others , to keep it warm ; and others supposed they were to preserve it from the flies and musquitoes . All agreed that they looked very strange , and the wearers appeared to think so them- selves ; but ...
... designed to keep the head cool ; others , to keep it warm ; and others supposed they were to preserve it from the flies and musquitoes . All agreed that they looked very strange , and the wearers appeared to think so them- selves ; but ...
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accustomed appeared Areois attended Austral Islands baptized Barff bark body Borabora bread-fruit called canoe Captain Captain Cook casuarina ceremony chapel chiefs Christ Christianity church circumstances civilized cloth cocoa-nut colour connexion considered coral crime declared deities desire district Divine dress dwellings effect Eimeo engaged erected European favour feet females fish formed formerly frequently friends furnished gods Huahine human human sacrifices idolatry idols individual influence inhabitants kind king labour land laws Leeward Islands magistrate marae mats ment Missionaries mountains nation native occasion offered Palliser Islands parties perhaps person Pomare Pomare III prayer present priest principal punishment raatiras Raiatea received reef regarded rendered resembling residence Rurutu Sabbath sacred Sandwich Islands Scripture seldom ship shore side singular society Society Islands sometimes South Sea Islands spear spirits station supposed Taaroa Tahaa Tahiti Tahitian tataued temple tion tree usually vessel voyage worship