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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... soon after two in the afternoon of the same day , we entered an opening in the reef , a few miles to the northward of that leading to Opoa . This entrance is called by the inhabitants Tipae mau , True , or permanent , landing ( place ...
... soon after two in the afternoon of the same day , we entered an opening in the reef , a few miles to the northward of that leading to Opoa . This entrance is called by the inhabitants Tipae mau , True , or permanent , landing ( place ...
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... soon as they were landed , a kind of circle was formed by the people ; the king or chiefs on the one side , and the strangers on the other ; the latter brought their marotai , or offering , to the king and the gods , and accompanied its ...
... soon as they were landed , a kind of circle was formed by the people ; the king or chiefs on the one side , and the strangers on the other ; the latter brought their marotai , or offering , to the king and the gods , and accompanied its ...
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... soon tire . Regular , steady habits of labour are only acquired by long practice . When a boat manned with English seamen , and a canoe with natives , have started together from the shore at their first setting out , the natives would soon ...
... soon tire . Regular , steady habits of labour are only acquired by long practice . When a boat manned with English seamen , and a canoe with natives , have started together from the shore at their first setting out , the natives would soon ...
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... soon over - runs uncultivated lands ; while the branching coral , farero , is perhaps more rapid in its formation than any of the corallines that close up the openings in the reefs , and , wherever it is shallow , rise to the water's ...
... soon over - runs uncultivated lands ; while the branching coral , farero , is perhaps more rapid in its formation than any of the corallines that close up the openings in the reefs , and , wherever it is shallow , rise to the water's ...
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... soon after , when some visitors from England waited upon him at his residence . He addressed them to the following effect : " You have come to see us under circumstances very different from those under which your countrymen formerly ...
... soon after , when some visitors from England waited upon him at his residence . He addressed them to the following effect : " You have come to see us under circumstances very different from those under which your countrymen formerly ...
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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 |
Polynesian Researches: During a Residence of Nearly Six Years in ..., Volume 2 William Ellis Affichage du livre entier - 1829 |
Expressions et termes fréquents
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