Brown Men and Women: Or, The South Sea Islands in 1895 and 1896Swan Sonnenschein & Company, 1898 - 294페이지 |
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Aitutaki Apia ashore Auckland Baker bananas Blackmore boat bread-fruit brown called captain ceremony chiefs church civilization cocoanut cocoanut trees colony colour Cook cool copra coral reef customs dancing dollars dress drink English European feet Fiji Fijians French friends fruit girls give Government green Group Haapai half-caste hand harbour head honour kava King George labour ladies Lakalaka land leaves Lifuka liquor live look Maori married mats miles minister missionary Moulton native never night Nukualofa official oranges Pacific Pacific Islands pandanus Papeëte pass passengers political pretty Queen race Rarotonga religious Rokotui round Samoa side Solomon Islanders South Sea Island standing steamer Suva Tahiti Tahitian tappa cloth things Tonga Tongan language Tongatabu town trade Tubou Tuitonga Vavau village Wesleyan Wesleyan Church Whitcombe whole wife woman women yams young Zealand
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21 페이지 - There methinks would be enjoyment more than in this march of mind, In the steamship, in the railway, in the thoughts that shake mankind. There the passions cramp'd no longer shall have scope and breathing space I will take some savage woman, she shall rear my dusky race.
58 페이지 - Roll on, thou deep and dark blue Ocean, roll ! Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain ; Man marks the earth with ruin, his control Stops with the shore ; upon the watery plain The wrecks are all thy deed...
230 페이지 - Veil'd in a simple robe, their best attire, * Beyond the pomp of dress ; for loveliness Needs not the foreign aid of ornament, But is, when unadorn'd, adorn'd the most.
195 페이지 - Come, my friends, Tis not too late to seek a newer world. Push off, and sitting well in order smite The sounding furrows; for my purpose holds To sail beyond the sunset, and the baths Of all the western stars, until I die. It may be that the gulfs will wash us down: It may be we shall touch the Happy Isles, And see the great Achilles whom we knew. Tho' much is taken, much abides; and tho...
15 페이지 - ... what that was: he accordingly pronounced aloud the name of the king, upon which Finow snatched the paper from his hand, and, with astonishment, looked at it, turned it round, and examined it in all directions: at length he exclaimed, "This is neither like myself nor any body else! where are my legs? how do you know it to be I?
279 페이지 - Fear none of those things which thou shalt suffer : behold, the devil shall cast some of you into prison, that ye may be tried ; and ye shall have tribulation ten days : be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life.
21 페이지 - Never comes the trader, never floats an European flag, Slides the bird o'er lustrous woodland, swings the trailer from the crag; Droops the heavy-blossom'd bower, hangs the heavy-fruited tree — Summer isles of Eden lying in dark-purple spheres of sea.
141 페이지 - Larger constellations burning, mellow moons and happy skies, Breadths of tropic shade and palms in cluster, knots of Paradise.
141 페이지 - Or to burst all links of habit — there to wander far away, On from island unto island at the gateways of the day.
115 페이지 - O God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains! that we should, with joy, pleasance, revel and applause, transform ourselves into beasts!