| Charles Mathews - 1879 - 362 páginas
...money-taker. Kanaka women in the garden below selling bananas and pea-nuts by the glare of flaming torches on a sultry tropical moonlight night. The...certainly a page in one's life never to be forgotten. On Wednesday, March 1st, we left Honolulu for California in the Closes Taylor, and on the tenth day... | |
| Charles Warren Stoddard - 1894 - 304 páginas
...black, brown, and whity-brown, till lately cannibals, showing their teeth, and enjoying ' Patter versus Clatter' as much as a few years ago they would have...certainly a page in one's life never to be forgotten." Let me add that Mr. Mathews is more amusing than authentic; cannibalism is unknown in the annals of... | |
| John Hollingshead - 1898 - 526 páginas
...multitude till lately cannibals, who showed their white teeth, grinning and enjoying Patter versus Clatter as much as a few years ago they would have...roasting of a missionary or the baking of a baby. (Immense laughter.) And, after all these feats, here I am once more, safe and sound, in our old jog-trot... | |
| Charles Warren Stoddard - 1904 - 328 páginas
...black, brown, and whity-brown, till lately cannibals, showing their teeth, and enjoying 'Patter versus Clatter' as much as a few years ago they would have...certainly a page in one's life never to be forgotten." Let me add that Mr. Mathews is more amusing than authentic ; cannibalism is unknown in the annals of... | |
| Charles Warren Stoddard - 1904 - 366 páginas
...black, brown, and whity-brown, till lately cannibals, showing their teeth, and enjoying 'Patter versus Clatter' as much as a few years ago they would have...the baking of a baby? ' ' It was certainly a page in one 's life never to be forgotten." Let me add that Mr. Mathews is more amusing than authentic ; cannibalism... | |
| Charles Warren Stoddard - 1904 - 328 páginas
...black, brown, and whity-brown, till lately cannibals, showing their teeth, and enjoying 'Patter versus Clatter' as much as a few years ago they would have...roasting of a missionary or the baking of a baby? 198 THE DRAMA IN DREAMLAND ' ' It was certainly a page in one 's life never to be forgotten. ' ' Let... | |
| Cecil Ferard Armstrong - 1912 - 482 páginas
...worth. The pit was mostly filled with Kanakas, till lately cannibals, "black, brown, and whitey brown, showing their white teeth, grinning, and enjoying...would have enjoyed the roasting of a missionary or baking of a baby." Ten days later they landed at San Francisco, where Mathews received a telegram asking... | |
| Sir Merton Russell-Cotes - 1921 - 648 páginas
...garden below selling bananas and pea-nuts by the glare of flaming torches My old friend Chas. Mathews on a sultry, tropical moonlight night. The whole thing...certainly a page in one's life never to be forgotten." None of Charles Mathews' friends could have felt his loss more deeply than I did. He was a perfect... | |
| 1883 - 686 páginas
...black, brown, and whitybrown, till lately cannibals, showing their teeth, and enjoying 'Patter versus Clatter' as much as a few years ago they would have...certainly a page in one's life never to be forgotten." 120 121 Let me add that Mr. Mathews is more amusing than authentic; cannibalism is unknown in the annals... | |
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