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" I witnessed more than one little child quarrelling for the honour (or rather out of bravado), of having it done. The finger is laid flat upon a block of wood. A knife, axe, or sharp stone is placed with the edge upon the line of proposed separation; and... "
An Account of the Natives of the Tonga Islands in the South Pacific Ocean ... - Side 166
af William Mariner - 1827 - 340 sider
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An Account of the Natives of the Tonga Islands, in the South Pacific ..., Bind 2

William Mariner - 1817 - 632 sider
...it done. The finger is laid flat upon a block of wood : a knife, axe, or sharp stone is placed with the edge upon the line of proposed separation ; and...bleeds much : the stump is then held in the smoke and slearn arising from the com bustion of fresh plucked grass : this stops any flow of blood. The wound...
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Constable's miscellany of original and selected publications

Constable and co, ltd - 1827 - 722 sider
...p. 22. The finger is laid flat upon a block of wood ; a knife, axe, or sharp stone is placed •with the edge upon the line of proposed separation, and...powerful blow being given with a mallet or large stone, tbe operation is finished. From the nature and violence of the action, the wound seldom bleeds much....
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Narrative and Successful Result of a Voyage in the South Seas ..., Bind 2

Peter Dillon - 1829 - 474 sider
...it done. The finger is laid flat upon a block of wood, a knife, axe, or sharp stone is placed with the edge upon the line of proposed separation, and...mallet or large stone, the operation is finished. Tobtoo is burning the body in spots with lighted rolls of tdpa. Ld/a, burning the arm in about six...
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The Monthly Repository and Review of Theology and General Literature, Bind 4

1830 - 986 sider
...ours. " The finger is laid flat upon a block of wood, a knife, axe, or sharp stone, is placed with the edge upon the line of proposed separation, and...mallet or large stone, the operation is finished." Nobody presumes to set up as a surgeon who has not studied at the Fejee islands, where they bare great...
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Tonga and the Friendly Islands: With a Sketch of Their Mission History ...

Sarah Stock Farmer - 1855 - 464 sider
...was laid flat upon a block of wood; an axe or sharp stone was placed with the edge upon the line of separation, and a powerful blow being given with a mallet or large stone, the operation was finished. M. Labillardiere speaks of a young girl who "had the little finger of the left hand wrapped...
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Curiosities of savage life

James Greenwood - 1864 - 506 sider
...or sharp sione is placed with the edge upon the line of the proposed separation, and a powerful blow given with a mallet or large stone, the operation...the smoke and steam arising from the combustion of fresh plucked grass ; this stops any flow of blood. The wound is not washed for two days ; afterwards...
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