Polynesia, Or, An Historical Account of the Principal Islands in the South Sea, Including New ZealandOliver & Boyd, 1842 - 440 sider |
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... Island- ers - Services of Captain Sandilands - War in Raiatea- Evils of such Commotions , ..... CHAPTER V. .Page 131 MARQUESAS , LOW ARCHIPELAGO , AND AUSTRAL ISLANDS . Marquesas discovered by Mendana - Description — Climate ...
... Island- ers - Services of Captain Sandilands - War in Raiatea- Evils of such Commotions , ..... CHAPTER V. .Page 131 MARQUESAS , LOW ARCHIPELAGO , AND AUSTRAL ISLANDS . Marquesas discovered by Mendana - Description — Climate ...
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Michael Russell. nibalism - A native Feast - Navigators ' Islands discovered by Bougainville - Visited by La Perouse , and by Kotzebue- Incidents mentioned by the latter - These Islands extremely important - Exertions of the Chief Fauea ...
Michael Russell. nibalism - A native Feast - Navigators ' Islands discovered by Bougainville - Visited by La Perouse , and by Kotzebue- Incidents mentioned by the latter - These Islands extremely important - Exertions of the Chief Fauea ...
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... Islands . Even among the Carolines , where the Poly- nesian series turns due east , the particular masses lie north and south . Another great chain makes its appear- ance in Luçon , the largest of the Philippines , which passes through ...
... Islands . Even among the Carolines , where the Poly- nesian series turns due east , the particular masses lie north and south . Another great chain makes its appear- ance in Luçon , the largest of the Philippines , which passes through ...
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... islands of Plutonic origin into two orders , the Mountainous and the Hilly . In the former , the height of the land varies from 2000 to 15,000 feet above the level of the sea , the towering summits gradually rising from their base till ...
... islands of Plutonic origin into two orders , the Mountainous and the Hilly . In the former , the height of the land varies from 2000 to 15,000 feet above the level of the sea , the towering summits gradually rising from their base till ...
Side 32
... islands of the South Sea must have proceeded from America , or that certain tribes of Polynesians , at some former epoch , had accomplished a passage thither , and formed a permanent settlement . Some writers have maintained that ...
... islands of the South Sea must have proceeded from America , or that certain tribes of Polynesians , at some former epoch , had accomplished a passage thither , and formed a permanent settlement . Some writers have maintained that ...
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