The Journal of the Polynesian Society, Volumen13Polynesian Society., 1904 Vocabularies of some of the languages of Polynesia are included. "A list of Polynesian languages" is given in v. 21, p. 67-71. |
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Página 182 - Not unfrequently a kohuru has resulted in a vendetta, the memory of which has been handed down from father to son for many generations ; and under any circumstances a wrong of this sort is never forgotten, no matter how thoroughly it may have been avenged ; it has moreover always been held to be a convenient excuse for killing a man of the offending tribe whenever opportunity offered. It was a murder by the Muaupoko tribe of Horowhenua, of which affair Te...
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Página 55 - I asked him if it were not possible for Strangers who passed this way to do as my natives were then doing, namely, twisting green branches and depositing them there as a sign that they had stopped at that notable place — a general custom with the natives whenever they pass any remarkable place. After this we went on over sandhills and sandy beaches till we came to a fresh water river.
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Página 199 - Oceanic primitive or mother-tongue this word was triliteral, and had the vowel changes peculiar to the Semitic languages most fully preserved in the ancient Arabic ; and that as a triliteral word with the middle radical doubled it underwent the usual contractions, set forth in all Semitic grammars, of such words, as is plainly seen by comparing with the Arabic.
Página 101 - Both sexes stain themselves in the same manner with the colour of black, and somewhat in the same way as the South Sea Islanders, introducing it under the skin by a sharp instrument furnished with many teeth. The men carry this custom to much greater length ; the women are generally content with having their lips blacked, but sometimes have little patches of black on different parts of the body. The man, to the contrary, seems to add to the quantity every year of his life, so that some of the elders...
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