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, 1. köideF. Westley and A.H. Davis, 1831 |
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... piece of excavated bread - fruit tree , balanced by an outrigger ( that is , a piece of purau wood , lashed to the ends of two smaller pieces , which project from the sides of the vessel ) , amused us by the simplicity of its ...
... piece of excavated bread - fruit tree , balanced by an outrigger ( that is , a piece of purau wood , lashed to the ends of two smaller pieces , which project from the sides of the vessel ) , amused us by the simplicity of its ...
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... piece of native cloth wound about the loins , and passed between the legs . Some had a loose mantle of the same thrown over their shoulders ;. and a few were more closely covered with an upper garment called a tibuta , which is a length ...
... piece of native cloth wound about the loins , and passed between the legs . Some had a loose mantle of the same thrown over their shoulders ;. and a few were more closely covered with an upper garment called a tibuta , which is a length ...
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... piece of wood , called tutu , about four inches square , with two deep grooves on one side , and smooth on the other . This is beaten by women sitting on the ground , with an instrument of the wood called Ie . This is about eighteen ...
... piece of wood , called tutu , about four inches square , with two deep grooves on one side , and smooth on the other . This is beaten by women sitting on the ground , with an instrument of the wood called Ie . This is about eighteen ...
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... piece of flat iron , sharpened and fixed upon the an- gular point of a sloping stool , on which the person sits , and turns the nut , open at one end , over this edge till the con- tents are cleared out . The sliced kernels are then put ...
... piece of flat iron , sharpened and fixed upon the an- gular point of a sloping stool , on which the person sits , and turns the nut , open at one end , over this edge till the con- tents are cleared out . The sliced kernels are then put ...
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... piece of the pig that I stole last night for you , but don't you tell . ” Then he would slink away , persuading himself that , if he had wronged his neighbour , he had not wronged his god , though , to do his ingenuity justice , he had ...
... piece of the pig that I stole last night for you , but don't you tell . ” Then he would slink away , persuading himself that , if he had wronged his neighbour , he had not wronged his god , though , to do his ingenuity justice , he had ...
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afternoon afterwards appeared Areois arrival Barff basaltic beach beautiful Bennet boat body Borabora bread-fruit breccia brought called canoe Cape Horn captain chapel chiefs Christian cloth cocoa-nut colour coral crew Dangerous Archipelago Deputation dwellings earth Eimeo Ellis eyes feet fish formerly friends fruit gospel ground hand harbour Hautia head hearts heathen hogs Huahine hundred idolatry idols inches inhabitants islands kind king labour land latter Leeward Islands length London Missionary Society Lord Mahine manner marae Matavai miles Missionaries morning mountains natives nearly night Nott Oahu occasion persons plants Pomare Pomare's prayer present priests queen raatiras Raiatea reached received reef rocks Sabbath sailed sailors seen Sept ship shore side Society Islands soon sperm whale spot stones Tahiti Tahitian Tahitian language things tion trees TROPIC OF CAPRICORN Tyerman vessel voyage whale whole wind woman words worship