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... women fairer than the women of these days , and of doings so strange that the jaws of the listener fall apart . Such a one gains great honour , and the chiefs will promise him nambu before they even hear his tale , remembering the ...
... women fairer than the women of these days , and of doings so strange that the jaws of the listener fall apart . Such a one gains great honour , and the chiefs will promise him nambu before they even hear his tale , remembering the ...
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... women have been busy since daylight bringing in yams , plan- tains , and taro from the plantations , while the men were digging the oven and lining it with the stones that , when heated , will cook the pigs to a turn . But already the ...
... women have been busy since daylight bringing in yams , plan- tains , and taro from the plantations , while the men were digging the oven and lining it with the stones that , when heated , will cook the pigs to a turn . But already the ...
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... women so decrepit as these would have had to make way for a more vigorous generation by the simple and ex- peditious means of being buried alive , but now they no longer fear the consequences of their eccentricities . One of these old women ...
... women so decrepit as these would have had to make way for a more vigorous generation by the simple and ex- peditious means of being buried alive , but now they no longer fear the consequences of their eccentricities . One of these old women ...
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... - source must be employed , and we inform her that if she does not complete the task imposed on her as a fine she will be sent to Suva jail , there to be confined with the Indian women . This awful threat has its 14 SOUTH SEA YARNS .
... - source must be employed , and we inform her that if she does not complete the task imposed on her as a fine she will be sent to Suva jail , there to be confined with the Indian women . This awful threat has its 14 SOUTH SEA YARNS .
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Basil Thomson. with the Indian women . This awful threat has its effect ; and the dread powers of our court having thus been vindicated , the crier proclaims its adjournment for three months . The spectators troop out to spend the rest ...
Basil Thomson. with the Indian women . This awful threat has its effect ; and the dread powers of our court having thus been vindicated , the crier proclaims its adjournment for three months . The spectators troop out to spend the rest ...
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