 | Charles Samuel Stewart - 1832 - 366 pages
...now existing, the Hapas and Teiis are allies, as we now find them to be. At times several tribes have combined in the utter extermination of a single weaker though independent body. At others again, all the tribes become nearly equally divided in a general contest. And again, all are sometimes... | |
 | Charles Samuel Stewart - 1833 - 336 pages
...now existing—the Hapas and Teiis are allies, as we find them to be. At times several tribes have combined in the utter extermination of a single weaker though independent body. At others again, all the tribes become nearly equally divided in a general contest. And again, all are sometimes... | |
 | 498 pages
...14*7. Cf. Stewart, vol. I, p. 279. D'Urville, Voy.pitt. vol. I, PP. 485, Soo. * Rad1guet, vol. xxn, p. 433. 6 Melville, p. 25. off any straggler or make...united in a war against another island or islands5. Des VergneSj who was in the Marquesas in 1868-74 anc* wrote in 1877, says that the natives of the Marquesas... | |
 | 1831 - 740 pages
...Sometimes, they partake of the nature of a domestic or civil feud : at other times, several tribes have combined in the utter extermination of a single weaker, though independent body. A petty theft, an insult or injury offered to one of the tribe, or the impulse of private ambition... | |
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Melville, p. 25. off any straggler or make descent on inmates of some sequestered habitation1. According to Baessler the valleys were once thickly populated; each was inhabited by a special clan, having a chief at its head, and at constant feud with its... 