Journal of Voyages and Travels by the Rev. Daniel Tyerman and George Bennet, Esq: Deputed from the London Missionary Society, to Visit Their Various Stations in the South Sea Islands, China, India, &c. Between the Years 1821 and 1829, 2. köideCrocker and Brewster, 1832 |
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... Trees to make Idols - Want of Parental Authority— Foolish Etiquette of the former King .. CHAPTER XXI . District of Waerua - Ava - Plantations - Arbitrary Power of the Chiefs - Tax - gatherer's Memorandum - cord — Singular Pile of Coral ...
... Trees to make Idols - Want of Parental Authority— Foolish Etiquette of the former King .. CHAPTER XXI . District of Waerua - Ava - Plantations - Arbitrary Power of the Chiefs - Tax - gatherer's Memorandum - cord — Singular Pile of Coral ...
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... tree - First Parents of South Sea Islanders , according to Tradition - Opening of a Chapel - Fare na Atua , or House of a God - Rugged Ways into the Interior of Tahiti- Tropical Fern - A Mountain Lake .... CHAPTER XXXI . The Deputation ...
... tree - First Parents of South Sea Islanders , according to Tradition - Opening of a Chapel - Fare na Atua , or House of a God - Rugged Ways into the Interior of Tahiti- Tropical Fern - A Mountain Lake .... CHAPTER XXXI . The Deputation ...
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... trees , are the land - marks of a spot at which the eye of every stranger who visits this coast will look with intense cu- riosity and interest , and of which every reader of the voyages of the great circumnavigator will have his own ...
... trees , are the land - marks of a spot at which the eye of every stranger who visits this coast will look with intense cu- riosity and interest , and of which every reader of the voyages of the great circumnavigator will have his own ...
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... trees are growing , and idol - images stood . Two of the latter remain on the north - east side . These are notched posts , twelve feet high , across the middle of each of which something to resemble a human face has been carved , of ...
... trees are growing , and idol - images stood . Two of the latter remain on the north - east side . These are notched posts , twelve feet high , across the middle of each of which something to resemble a human face has been carved , of ...
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... trees , to catch the precious moisture as it drops from the extremities . In some instances we have seen the keels of old canoes fixed in a sloping position , having the hollow side uppermost , to conduct the water into vessels placed ...
... trees , to catch the precious moisture as it drops from the extremities . In some instances we have seen the keels of old canoes fixed in a sloping position , having the hollow side uppermost , to conduct the water into vessels placed ...
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