Diversions of a Prime MinisterBlackwood, 1894 - 407 páginas |
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... sail for Nukualofa . A chain of volcanoes traverses the Tongan group from north to south , and one or other of the craters is generally in a state of sufficient activity to be employed by one of the contend- ing Church parties against ...
... sail for Nukualofa . A chain of volcanoes traverses the Tongan group from north to south , and one or other of the craters is generally in a state of sufficient activity to be employed by one of the contend- ing Church parties against ...
Página 91
... sails , and scratching their light - brown heads with a winged claw . The leaves and the grass beneath the trees had long ago been killed by their unwholesome presence ; and the stench was so overpowering that we had to edge to windward ...
... sails , and scratching their light - brown heads with a winged claw . The leaves and the grass beneath the trees had long ago been killed by their unwholesome presence ; and the stench was so overpowering that we had to edge to windward ...
Página 108
... sail for Samoa or Fiji . There was a spice of adventure and danger about such an escape that exactly suits a Tongan . They suffered sometimes . Jope , who reached Lakemba in an open boat in 1886 , would have died of hunger in another ...
... sail for Samoa or Fiji . There was a spice of adventure and danger about such an escape that exactly suits a Tongan . They suffered sometimes . Jope , who reached Lakemba in an open boat in 1886 , would have died of hunger in another ...
Página 155
... the distant islands of Niuafoou and Niuatobu- tabu was equally disquieting . No sooner had Kubu and Sateki set sail than Tuia of the former and the powerful Maatu of the latter island began simultaneously to intimi- date.
... the distant islands of Niuafoou and Niuatobu- tabu was equally disquieting . No sooner had Kubu and Sateki set sail than Tuia of the former and the powerful Maatu of the latter island began simultaneously to intimi- date.
Página 179
... sailing - boat bore down on us with a stout figure at the tiller , whom I recognised as Finau . He hailed us to say that he had come to pilot us to the other show - cave of the place , and ( parenthetically , of course ) to point out ...
... sailing - boat bore down on us with a stout figure at the tiller , whom I recognised as Finau . He hailed us to say that he had come to pilot us to the other show - cave of the place , and ( parenthetically , of course ) to point out ...
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