The islands and their inhabitants. By Thomas WilliamsA. Heylin, 1858 |
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arms bamboo body bure buried cannibal canoe Chief clapping club cocoa-nut colour cooked custom dead death deck dress drua eaten enemy favour fear feast feet long Fiji Fijian Fijian language fish friends give gods grave hands head heathen hundred inches inhabitants instance islands killed kind King King's Lakemba land language Lasakau leaves liku live masi Mata mats Mbau Mbua Mbulu murder musket native Ndengei nouns observed oven party passed person present priest punished Rakiraki rank receive reeds reef Rewa round sail seen shout sinnet slain sometimes Somosomo soro spear spirits stones strangled tabu taro temple Tongan town tribe Tui Nayau Tuikilakila turmeric turtle Vanua Levu Vasu verb Viti Levu Vuna Wainunu whale's tooth whales wife wives woman women wood words yams yaqona young
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Side 135 - The right hand then describes a bold curve outwardly from the chest, whilst the left comes across the chest, describing a curve nearer to him, and in the opposite direction, till, at length, the left hand is extended from him, and the right approaches to the left shoulder, gradually twisting the vau by the turn and llcxures principally of that wrist.
Side 26 - The word means a nephew, or niece, but becomes a title of office in the case of the male, who in some localities has the extraordinary privilege of appropriating whatever he chooses belonging to his uncle, or those under his uncle's power.
Side 183 - Nasima, the king's house., in time. The moment I entered it was evident that, as far as concerned two of the women, I was too late to save their lives. The effect of that scene was overwhelming. Scores of deliberate murderers, in the very act, surrounded me, yet there was no confusion, and except a word from him who presided, no noise, but only an unearthly, horrid stillness.
Side 47 - Koroi. I once asked a man why he was called Koroi. " Because," he replied, " I, with several other men, found some women and children in a cave, drew them out and clubbed them, and then was consecrated...
Side 164 - In the Fiji Islands the man seizes on the woman whom he wishes for his wife by actual or pretended force; but "on reaching the home of her abductor, should she not approve of the match, she runs to some one who can protect her; if, however, she is satisfied, the matter is settled forthwith.
Side 187 - For we must needs die, and are as water spilt on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again; neither doth God respect any person: yet doth he devise means, that his banished be not expelled from him.
Side 133 - At this signal the chiefs, priests, and leading men gather round the well-known bowl, and talk over public affairs, or state the work assigned for the day, while their favourite draught is being prepared. When the young men have finished the chewing, each deposits his portion, in the form of a round dry ball, in the bowl, the inside of which thus becomes studded over with a large number of these separate little masses. The man who has to make the grog takes the bowl by the edge and tilts it towards...
Side 76 - ... doing it. The workers within pair with those outside, each tying what another lays on. When all have taken their places, and are getting warm, the calls for grass, rods, and lashings, and the answers, all coming from two or three hundred excited...