Polynesia, Or, An Historical Account of the Principal Islands in the South Sea, Including New ZealandOliver & Boyd, 1842 - 440 sider |
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... ARTS OF SOCIAL LIFE . BY THE RIGHT REV . M. RUSSELL , LL.D. AND D.C.L. , ( OF ST JOHN'S COLLEGE , OXFORD ) ; Author of " View of Ancient and Modern Egypt , " " Palestine or the Holy Land , " " Nubia and Abyssinia , " " History and ...
... ARTS OF SOCIAL LIFE . BY THE RIGHT REV . M. RUSSELL , LL.D. AND D.C.L. , ( OF ST JOHN'S COLLEGE , OXFORD ) ; Author of " View of Ancient and Modern Egypt , " " Palestine or the Holy Land , " " Nubia and Abyssinia , " " History and ...
Side 8
... arts of sorcery and divination , their mode of carrying on war , and , more especially , the atrocities of human sacrifice with which their battles were wont to be preceded and followed . Not less interesting are the details which ...
... arts of sorcery and divination , their mode of carrying on war , and , more especially , the atrocities of human sacrifice with which their battles were wont to be preceded and followed . Not less interesting are the details which ...
Side 19
... arts of civilized life , impenetrable woods cover the sur- face ; the trees are seen mutilated by the storm , or rot- ting on the ground ; the fertile plain is encumbered with noxious weeds , or soaked with stagnant water ; and every ...
... arts of civilized life , impenetrable woods cover the sur- face ; the trees are seen mutilated by the storm , or rot- ting on the ground ; the fertile plain is encumbered with noxious weeds , or soaked with stagnant water ; and every ...
Side 20
... arts of civilized life ! The contrast now stated still meets the eye of the mari- ner , according as he happens to visit the wilds of New Zealand , or to approach the gentler shores of Otaheite , the fairest isle in the South Sea ...
... arts of civilized life ! The contrast now stated still meets the eye of the mari- ner , according as he happens to visit the wilds of New Zealand , or to approach the gentler shores of Otaheite , the fairest isle in the South Sea ...
Side 32
... art among the anti- quities of Ohio are clearly of a Polynesian character . From these facts it has been inferred that the North Americans , South Sea Islanders , and Malays were for- merly the same people , or descended from one common ...
... art among the anti- quities of Ohio are clearly of a Polynesian character . From these facts it has been inferred that the North Americans , South Sea Islanders , and Malays were for- merly the same people , or descended from one common ...
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