The Coral Lands of the Pacific: Their Peoples and Their ProductsR. Bentley and Son, 1882 - 398 sider |
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Side 13
... leaves . Coral itself is , in fact , an animal growing in plant - like form , and seems to be a connecting link between the animal and vegetable kingdoms . The sea is found to be deficient in lime - salts near the islands of the South ...
... leaves . Coral itself is , in fact , an animal growing in plant - like form , and seems to be a connecting link between the animal and vegetable kingdoms . The sea is found to be deficient in lime - salts near the islands of the South ...
Side 54
... leaves of the cocoa - nut tree make a most delicious salad if properly dressed ; but all of us know who sends the cooks , and Fiji is no exception to the universal scope of that gentleman's operations 54 THE CORAL LANDS OF THE PACIFIC .
... leaves of the cocoa - nut tree make a most delicious salad if properly dressed ; but all of us know who sends the cooks , and Fiji is no exception to the universal scope of that gentleman's operations 54 THE CORAL LANDS OF THE PACIFIC .
Side 66
... leaf of the cevuga , This is your broth , sirs the circumcised . ' I am not aware whether the ceremony is continued at the present time , but the practice supports the theory of a Jewish origin for the nation . The soro or peace ...
... leaf of the cevuga , This is your broth , sirs the circumcised . ' I am not aware whether the ceremony is continued at the present time , but the practice supports the theory of a Jewish origin for the nation . The soro or peace ...
Side 68
... leaves and stones , and so roasted alive . When the body is cooked , it is taken from the oven and the face painted black , as is done by the natives on festal occasions . It is then carried to the bure , where it is offered to the gods ...
... leaves and stones , and so roasted alive . When the body is cooked , it is taken from the oven and the face painted black , as is done by the natives on festal occasions . It is then carried to the bure , where it is offered to the gods ...
Side 92
... leaves . In many cases the thatch exceeds three feet in thickness . The ridge - pole generally extends for a foot or more on either side of the building , and some of the con- demned cannibals in the war of 1876 made their exit from ...
... leaves . In many cases the thatch exceeds three feet in thickness . The ridge - pole generally extends for a foot or more on either side of the building , and some of the con- demned cannibals in the war of 1876 made their exit from ...
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acres Archipelago Areoi atolls beach beachcombers beautiful bêche-de-mer British Bully Hayes Cacobau called cannibals canoes Captain centre ceremony chief Christian civilisation cocoa-nut trees coffee colony colour Cook copra Coral Lands cotton cultivation European feet high fibre Fiji Fijian Finoo fish Godeffroy Government grow harbour Hayes inches inhabitants kava king Kingsmill Group labour lagoon language leaves Levuka Line islanders Mango mats Messrs miles missionaries natives Navigators never nuts pandanus Papuan pearl-oyster pearls plantation plants Polynesian possess present produce race Rakahanga Rapa Iti reef remarkable river rock Roko round Samoan Savu Savu Savu Sawaiori scenery schooner settlers shell ship side Society Islands soil sort South Pacific South Sea stone sugar sugar-cane Suva Sydney Tahiti Taviuni tion Tongan tons town trade Tuamotus turtle Vanua Levu vegetation vessels Viti Levu Wai-Wai women yams Zealand
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Side 214 - Thou art, of what sort the eternal life of the saints was to be, which eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, nor hath it entered into the heart of man to conceive.
Side 142 - There is a kind of seam along the centre, exactly under the stem of the leaf, from both sides of which long and tough fibres, about the size of a bristle, regularly diverge in an oblique direction. Sometimes there appear to be two layers of fibres, which cross each other, and the whole is cemented with a still finer, fibrous, and adhesive substance. The length and evenness of the threads or fibres, the regular manner in which they cross each other at oblique angles ; the extent of surface, and the...
Side 288 - You shall be black, because your minds are bad, and shall be destitute; you shall not be wise in useful things, neither shall you go to the great land of your brothers; how can you go with your bad canoes? But your brothers shall come to Tonga, and trade with you as they please.
Side 68 - ... compelled to sit upon the ground, with their feet drawn under their thighs, and their arms placed close before them. In this posture they are bound so tightly that they cannot stir, or move a joint. They are then placed in the usual oven, upon hot stones, and covered with leaves and earth, where they are roasted alive. When the body is cooked, it is taken from the oven, and the face painted black, as is done by the natives on festal occasions. It is then carried to the mbure, where it is offered...
Side 287 - Bolotoo, but of an inferior quality, and subject to decay and death. Being now willing that Tonga should also be inhabited by intelligent beings, he commanded his two sons thus : * " Go, and take with you your wives, and dwell in the world at Tonga : divide the land into two portions, and dwell separately from each other.
Side 80 - ... head. The following ceremonies were confused and boisterous. Companies of young men danced, shouted, and made perfect uproar for several successive nights. The blindfolded lads tried to hit the hanging water-vessel, and, if successful, were to become great warriors. The common women, at this time, are not allowed to eat flesh or fish ; and the chief wife, for three months following, may not touch her own food with her hands. The coast for four miles was made tabu, so that no one might fish there...
Side 144 - ... a single bud or shoot, of a white colour but hard texture, forces its way through one of the holes in the shell,, perforates the tough fibrous husk, and, after rising some inches, begins to unfold its pale green leaves to the light and the air; at this time, also, two thick white fibres, originating in the same point, push away the stoppers or coverings from the other two holes in the shell, pierce the husk in an opposite direction, and finally penetrate the ground. If allowed to...
Side 281 - With this intention, every man armed himself with an axe, and at a signal given they all struck his head at the same moment. Up started the giant with a tremendous roar, and recovering his feet, he stood aloft on the island of Lotooma, but being stunned with the blows, he staggered and fell again, with his head and body in the sea ; and being unable to recover himself, he was drowned, his feet remaining upon dry land, and thus the great enemy was destroyed.
Side 275 - These speeches were accompanied with a wild and frantic agitation of the body, whilst the parties cut and bruised their heads every two or three words with the knife or club they held in their hands. Others, somewhat more calm and moderate in their grief, would parade up and down with rather a wild and agitated step, spinning and whirling the club about, striking themselves with the edge of it two or three times violently upon the top or back of the head, and then suddenly stopping and looking...