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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... season for taking the operu , scomber scomber of Linneus , and other fish , periodically visiting their shores . Here they dry and repair their nets while watching the approach of the shoals , and find them remarkably advantageous in ...
... season for taking the operu , scomber scomber of Linneus , and other fish , periodically visiting their shores . Here they dry and repair their nets while watching the approach of the shoals , and find them remarkably advantageous in ...
Page 65
... season when the bread - fruit yielded no supply , and to raise cotton and productions , which they might exchange for clothing , tools , & c . We now directed them to the improvement of their dwellings , which , generally speak- ing ...
... season when the bread - fruit yielded no supply , and to raise cotton and productions , which they might exchange for clothing , tools , & c . We now directed them to the improvement of their dwellings , which , generally speak- ing ...
Page 106
... season that we were there , it was dry ; the sides were walled , and the bottom neatly paved ; but in the rainy season , when the water is constantly flowing through , its effect must be rather singular on the minds of those sitting ...
... season that we were there , it was dry ; the sides were walled , and the bottom neatly paved ; but in the rainy season , when the water is constantly flowing through , its effect must be rather singular on the minds of those sitting ...
Page 110
... season , without some such method of calling them together . For several years there was , in all the islands , only one small hand - bell , not so large as that ordinarily used by the belman in an English market - town . As the number ...
... season , without some such method of calling them together . For several years there was , in all the islands , only one small hand - bell , not so large as that ordinarily used by the belman in an English market - town . As the number ...
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... early attendance on the Sabbath , ever has been , and still is , remarkably conspicuous ; it is to them a season of holy rest and devotional enjoy- ment . Excepting in Tahiti , there is now no JI . T POLYNESIAN RESEARCHES . 137.
... early attendance on the Sabbath , ever has been , and still is , remarkably conspicuous ; it is to them a season of holy rest and devotional enjoy- ment . Excepting in Tahiti , there is now no JI . T POLYNESIAN RESEARCHES . 137.
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Polynesian Researches, During a Residence of Nearly Six Years in ..., Volume 2 William Ellis Affichage du livre entier - 1829 |
Polynesian Researches: During a Residence of Nearly Six Years in ..., Volume 2 William Ellis Affichage du livre entier - 1829 |
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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