 | James Greenwood - 1863 - 478 sider
...never fails to excite the attention and admiration of all present. Sometimes the fibres of the vau are heard to crack with the increasing tension, yet...quantity, till at length it denies a single drop. The man now tosses the dregs behind him, or with a new lot of vau repeats the operation until the liquid... | |
 | John George Wood - 1870 - 918 sider
...various curvilinear lines essential to the success of the operation. Sometimes the fibres of the/ow are heard to crack with the increasing tension, yet...quantity till at length it denies a single drop." The illustration on the preceding page represents this portion of the ceremony. On the. right hand... | |
 | Thomas Williams (missionary in Fiji.) - 1870 - 618 sider
...fails to excite the attention and admiration of all present. . . . Sometimes the fibres of the vau are heard to crack with the increasing tension, yet...quantity, till at length it denies a single drop." The man now tosses the dregs behind him, or, with a new lot of vau, repeats the operation, until the... | |
 | Thomas Williams - 1870 - 624 sider
...fails to excite the attention and admiration of all present. . . . Sometimes the fibres of the %au are heard to crack with the increasing tension, yet...quantity, till at length it denies a single drop." The man now tosses the dregs behind him, or, with a new lot of vau, repeats the operation, until the... | |
 | John George Wood - 1870 - 888 sider
...the success of the operation. Sometimes the fibres of the fow are heard to crack with the iorreasing tension, yet the mass is seen whole and entire, becoming...drains from it in a regularly decreasing quantity ill at length it denies a single drop." The illustration on the preceding page represents this portion... | |
 | Julius Lucius Brenchley, Curaçoa (Steam frigate) - 1873 - 652 sider
...never fails to excite the attention and admiration of all present. .... Sometimes the fibres of the vau are heard to crack with the increasing tension, yet...regularly decreasing quantity, till at length it denies a smgle drop." The man now tosses the dregs behind him, or, with a new lot of vau, repeats the operation,... | |
 | James Herman De Ricci - 1875 - 368 sider
...never fails to excite the attention and admiration of all present. " Sometimes the fibres of the vau are heard to crack with [the increasing tension, yet...quantity, till at length it denies a single drop." is further enlivened by a sort of song, in which all join, and to which they keep time by repeating... | |
 | Mordecai Cooke, Mordecai Cubitt Cooke - 1997 - 308 sider
...mass is more and more twisted and compacted together, while the infusion drains from it in a regular decreasing quantity, till, at length, it denies a single drop. He now gives it to the person on his left side and receives fresh fow from the one on the right. The operation is again... | |
 | 1844 - 630 sider
...upon the left arm, while he takes a new and less constrained hold. " Sometimes the fibres of the fow are heard to crack with the increasing tension, yet...it to a person on his left side, and receives fresh fow from another in attendance on his right, and begins the operation anew, with a view to collect... | |
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Sometimes the fibres of the fau are heard to crack with the increasing tension, yet the mass is seen whole and entire, becoming more thin as it becomes more twisted, while the infusion drains from it in a regularly decreasing quantity, till at length... 
