Coral Lands, Bind 1Richard Bentley, 1880 |
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... read before the Philosophical Society of Great Britain . + From Papuah , frizzled , woolly headed .'- Marsden's Malay Dictionary . VOL . I. 1 tions having counted nearly seven hundred bunches on the head CHAPTER PAGE INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER.
... read before the Philosophical Society of Great Britain . + From Papuah , frizzled , woolly headed .'- Marsden's Malay Dictionary . VOL . I. 1 tions having counted nearly seven hundred bunches on the head CHAPTER PAGE INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER.
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H. Stonehewer Cooper. tions having counted nearly seven hundred bunches on the head of one young man . This strange custom gave rise to the long popular belief that the hair of the Polynesians grew in tufts . Dr. Turner also calls ...
H. Stonehewer Cooper. tions having counted nearly seven hundred bunches on the head of one young man . This strange custom gave rise to the long popular belief that the hair of the Polynesians grew in tufts . Dr. Turner also calls ...
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... hundred years ago , Captain Cook , the celebrated navigator , was murdered . He was killed on the Island of Hawaii- formerly spelt Owyhee , which is the largest in the group , and has an acreage of 2,500,000 . The other islands are Maui ...
... hundred years ago , Captain Cook , the celebrated navigator , was murdered . He was killed on the Island of Hawaii- formerly spelt Owyhee , which is the largest in the group , and has an acreage of 2,500,000 . The other islands are Maui ...
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... hundred feet below the surface . Dr. Darwin considers that there can be no difficulty respecting the foundations on which fringing- reefs are based ; whereas with barrier - reefs and atolls there is a great difficulty on this head . In ...
... hundred feet below the surface . Dr. Darwin considers that there can be no difficulty respecting the foundations on which fringing- reefs are based ; whereas with barrier - reefs and atolls there is a great difficulty on this head . In ...
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... hundred different islands , speaking one language , having a powerfully developed sense of nationality , and feeling as one people . No ancient Roman could have pronounced the civis Romanus sum with greater pride or dignity than a ...
... hundred different islands , speaking one language , having a powerfully developed sense of nationality , and feeling as one people . No ancient Roman could have pronounced the civis Romanus sum with greater pride or dignity than a ...
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