In Quest of CooliesH.S. King, 1872 - 137 páginas |
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... face when he saw that I did not understand a word , warned me that for my own credit I must risk something . The soldiers , I found , were from the Island of Bourbon , which may perhaps account for their language , and had been sent ...
... face when he saw that I did not understand a word , warned me that for my own credit I must risk something . The soldiers , I found , were from the Island of Bourbon , which may perhaps account for their language , and had been sent ...
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... face like those of a negress , partially covered by a banana leaf , which latter addition seems to be de rigueur amongst the older ones . On Sandwich or Vaté the man has his hair matted , and flattened down to his head , and always ...
... face like those of a negress , partially covered by a banana leaf , which latter addition seems to be de rigueur amongst the older ones . On Sandwich or Vaté the man has his hair matted , and flattened down to his head , and always ...
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... faces are quite in keeping . Their women I have never seen . On Api they build their hair up on end as high as possible , decolorizing one side with lime and leaving the other black ; but as I have only been on very distant terms with ...
... faces are quite in keeping . Their women I have never seen . On Api they build their hair up on end as high as possible , decolorizing one side with lime and leaving the other black ; but as I have only been on very distant terms with ...
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... faces round me that now was the time to strike the iron while it was hot ; so , shutting up the chests , my interpreter , standing in the centre of a ring of squat- ting natives , explained that these things were the wages earned by ...
... faces round me that now was the time to strike the iron while it was hot ; so , shutting up the chests , my interpreter , standing in the centre of a ring of squat- ting natives , explained that these things were the wages earned by ...
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... face of delight with which a little boy would array himself in No. 7 trousers , which were longer than his whole body , and proceed to walk across the deck , while a huge savage in a pair of No. 3 , scarcely reaching to his knees , and ...
... face of delight with which a little boy would array himself in No. 7 trousers , which were longer than his whole body , and proceed to walk across the deck , while a huge savage in a pair of No. 3 , scarcely reaching to his knees , and ...
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