South Sea YarnsW. Blackwood and Sons, 1894 - 326 páginas |
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Allen angry asked bananas Bauan beach Benion blue heron boat body Bonawai brought Buli bure burned canoe captain Cautata chief club copra court cried dark dead door elders Erirala eyes face Falani fear feast feet fell Fiji Fijian Finau fire fish foreigners Franz girl hand head heard island knew Korolamalama Kraft Laifone Lakeba land leave Levuka live looked Lusiana Makereta mate mats morning mountain muskets Nairai Nakelo nambu Nambuto Nandrau Narau native Neiafu night Oneata oven passed Raluve Rara Rasolo reef returned Rewa river Romeo round sail sailors sand Savage schooner ship shouted side spears steamer stones stood struck Tauyasa tell thing told took Tovutovu tree tribes Tui na turned Valekau Vavau Verata Vere Vere's village voice Vunivalu Wailea wife wind woman women words yams yangona
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Página 292 - Dengei is put to shame, Our own sicknesses have been thrust aside, The strangling-cord is a noble thing, They fall prone ; they fall with the sap still in them. A lethargy has seized upon the chiefs, How terrible is...
Página 203 - ... passed behind the row of saplings. A dozen men grasped each end of the vine, and with loud shouts hauled with all their might. The saplings, like the teeth of an enormous rake, tore through the pile of stones, flattening them out towards the opposite edge of the pit. The saplings were then driven in on the other side and the stones raked in the opposite direction, then sideways, until the bottom of the pit was covered with an even layer of hot stones. This process had taken fully half an hour,...
Página 17 - ... European nations. The horror must of course be instinctive, because we find it existing in the lowest grades of society ; but the instinct is confined to civilised man. The word cannibal is associated in our minds with scenes of the most debased savagery that the imagination can picture ; of men in habits and appearance a little lower than the brute ; of orgies the result of the most degrading religious superstition. It is not until one has lived on terms of friendship with cannibals that one...