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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Page 62
... furnish strong additional evidence that the scripture record is irrefragable . In several respects , the Polynesian account resembles not only the Mosaic , but those preserved by the earliest families of the postdiluvian world , and ...
... furnish strong additional evidence that the scripture record is irrefragable . In several respects , the Polynesian account resembles not only the Mosaic , but those preserved by the earliest families of the postdiluvian world , and ...
Page 66
... furnishing also a resort for vermin , which generally swarmed the floors in such numbers , as to become intolerable . In these houses the people took their meals , sitting in circles on the grass - spread floor . Here , the fresh water ...
... furnishing also a resort for vermin , which generally swarmed the floors in such numbers , as to become intolerable . In these houses the people took their meals , sitting in circles on the grass - spread floor . Here , the fresh water ...
Page 70
... furnished with great facility , and the fact of their being able to prepare with little trouble , lime from the coral rock , would encourage them in building comfort- able houses . Our friends in Raiatea were perhaps more urgent than ...
... furnished with great facility , and the fact of their being able to prepare with little trouble , lime from the coral rock , would encourage them in building comfort- able houses . Our friends in Raiatea were perhaps more urgent than ...
Page 74
William Ellis. at first to a stand . We were glad to furnish the chiefs and others with these most valuable articles , so far as our stock would allow , but it was useless to think of supplying the wants of the entire population ; we ...
William Ellis. at first to a stand . We were glad to furnish the chiefs and others with these most valuable articles , so far as our stock would allow , but it was useless to think of supplying the wants of the entire population ; we ...
Page 88
... furnished with a pulpit , a desk , a boarded floor throughout , con- structed of the tough planks of the reva , or ( galaxa sparta , ) and filled with pews and seats , but , by the inven- tion and ingenuity of the Missionaries , it was ...
... furnished with a pulpit , a desk , a boarded floor throughout , con- structed of the tough planks of the reva , or ( galaxa sparta , ) and filled with pews and seats , but , by the inven- tion and ingenuity of the Missionaries , it was ...
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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