Polynesia: or an historical account of the principal Islands in the South-Sea, including New Zealand: With a Map and VignetteOliver & Boyd, 1842 |
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Side 10
... Habits and Usages - No Works of ancient Civilisation— Mythology and Traditions - Form of Government - Sanctity attached to Person of King - Accession of Son at Birth- Captives made Slaves - Various Classes - Inflated Language of the ...
... Habits and Usages - No Works of ancient Civilisation— Mythology and Traditions - Form of Government - Sanctity attached to Person of King - Accession of Son at Birth- Captives made Slaves - Various Classes - Inflated Language of the ...
Side 12
... Habits of the People - Visited by Captain Beechey - Austral Isles - Rapa Chapel and School - Raivavai - Church organized - Toobouai - Inhabit- ants converted - Rurutoo - Docility of Natives - Rimatara- Advance in Civilisation - New ...
... Habits of the People - Visited by Captain Beechey - Austral Isles - Rapa Chapel and School - Raivavai - Church organized - Toobouai - Inhabit- ants converted - Rurutoo - Docility of Natives - Rimatara- Advance in Civilisation - New ...
Side 13
... Habits derived from the Fijees - Civil War , Toogahowe murdered - Character of Toobo Nuha , and of Finou his Brother - Speech of Young Finou - Attack made upon Mis- sionaries - Error as to the Number killed - Friendly Islands visited by ...
... Habits derived from the Fijees - Civil War , Toogahowe murdered - Character of Toobo Nuha , and of Finou his Brother - Speech of Young Finou - Attack made upon Mis- sionaries - Error as to the Number killed - Friendly Islands visited by ...
Side 18
... habits of the grossest barbarism to the pursuit of rational knowledge and the love of re- fined enjoyment . About twenty years had elapsed from the time that Columbus discovered America , when Vasco Nunez de Balboa beheld from a ...
... habits of the grossest barbarism to the pursuit of rational knowledge and the love of re- fined enjoyment . About twenty years had elapsed from the time that Columbus discovered America , when Vasco Nunez de Balboa beheld from a ...
Side 26
... habits do not permit them to proceed . Mr Lyell re- marks , that the circular or oval forms of the numerous coral isles of the Pacific , with the lakes in their centre , naturally suggest the idea that they are nothing more than the ...
... habits do not permit them to proceed . Mr Lyell re- marks , that the circular or oval forms of the numerous coral isles of the Pacific , with the lakes in their centre , naturally suggest the idea that they are nothing more than the ...
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