 I saw these five men lying upon the ground on the outside of my house, their only bed being some platted cocoa-nut leaves, and their only covering the large native cloth they usually wear over their shoulders. I hastened out, and asked them if they had...  Missionary Records: Tahiti and Society Islands - Side 2411849 - 334 siderFuld visning - Om denne bog
 | 1799 - 358 sider
...canes, filled with cocoa-nut oil, which they held up in their hands, and had brought as payment. 1 told them I had none ready that night, but if they...said they had. I then inquired why they did not, as Y I had directed them, go and lodge at some house, and come again. They answered, ' We were afraid... | |
 | 1825 - 618 sider
...early in the morning, I saw these same persons lying on the ground, outside of the door. I •went out, and asked them if they had been there all night? They answered, Yes. I asked them, why they did not go to the house of some friend to sleep ? They said,... | |
 | 1830 - 606 sider
...of some friend ; but, on looking out of my. window about day-break, I saw these five men lying along on the ground on the outside of my house, their only...hastened out, and asked them if they had been there all ui^ht : they said they had : I then inquired why they did not, as I had directed them, go and lodge... | |
 | Asa Smith Colton - 1830 - 184 sider
...friend; but on looking out of my window about day-break, I saw these five men lying along on the ground outside of my house, their only bed being some platted...leaves, and their only covering the large native cloth usually worn over their shoulders. I hastened out, and asked them if they had been. there all night;... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1830 - 622 sider
...of my window about day-break, I saw these five men lying along on the ground on the outside of ray house, their only bed being some platted cocoa-nut...leaves, and their only covering the large native cloth theyusually wear over their shoulders. I hastened out, and asked them if they had been there all night... | |
 | F. B. Miller - 1833 - 220 sider
...house of some friend ; but on looking out of my window, about daybreak, I saw these five men lying upon the ground on the outside of my house, their only...been there all night : they said they had. I then enquired why they did not, as I had directed them, go and lodge at some house, and come again. Their... | |
 | William Ellis - 1833 - 334 sider
...of some friend ; but, on looking out of my window about daybreak, I saw these five men lying along on the ground on the outside of my house, their only bed being some plaited cocoanut-leaves, and their only covering the large native cloth they usually wear over their... | |
 | 1835 - 542 sider
...house of some friend; but on looking out of my window about daybreak, I saw these five men lying along on the ground on the outside of my house, their only bed being some platted cocoa-nut leav es, and their only covering the large native cloth they usually wear over their shoulders. I hastened... | |
 | Favell Lee Mortimer - 1838 - 496 sider
...Ellis looked out of his window, and was surprised to see these men lying on the ground outside his house, their only bed being some platted cocoa-nut leaves, and their only covering the cloth, they usually wore over their shoulders. Mr. Ellis went out, and said, " Have you been here all... | |
 | Sarah Tappan Smith - 1841 - 410 sider
...of some friend ; but on looking out of my window about day-break, I saw these five men lying along on the ground on the outside of my house, their only bed being some plaited cocoanut-leaves, and their only covering the large native cloth they usually wear over their... | |
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