In Quest of CooliesH.S. King, 1872 - 137 páginas |
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... living as sheep overseer , of his cruises in the South Seas . He used to pour into my ear by the hour descriptions , which I am bound to say were a good deal coloured by his own imagina- tion , of the romantic beauty of these islands ...
... living as sheep overseer , of his cruises in the South Seas . He used to pour into my ear by the hour descriptions , which I am bound to say were a good deal coloured by his own imagina- tion , of the romantic beauty of these islands ...
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... living inland generally supplied these pigs , and used to bring the unhappy brutes down for miles with their legs tied together slung on a pole , two men to a pig , paying toll on their way to every tribe through whose territory they ...
... living inland generally supplied these pigs , and used to bring the unhappy brutes down for miles with their legs tied together slung on a pole , two men to a pig , paying toll on their way to every tribe through whose territory they ...
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... living so easy , that Englishmen must sooner or later be tempted over from Australia ; but I propose to enter more fully into this subject in a future chapter . The Vaté islander generally goes armed with bow and arrows and club , but ...
... living so easy , that Englishmen must sooner or later be tempted over from Australia ; but I propose to enter more fully into this subject in a future chapter . The Vaté islander generally goes armed with bow and arrows and club , but ...
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... living on the beach , leaving however , the hills , which appear to be perfectly free from this exhausting sickness . Some few miles from the cotton plantation I have described , two white men had settled under the care. THE ISLAND OF ...
... living on the beach , leaving however , the hills , which appear to be perfectly free from this exhausting sickness . Some few miles from the cotton plantation I have described , two white men had settled under the care. THE ISLAND OF ...
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... living almost wholly on yams , while the Australian rarely eats any- thing but meat ; but I think it is mostly because the Islander has such a glorious climate and soil that the fruits of the earth grow for him almost untilled , and ...
... living almost wholly on yams , while the Australian rarely eats any- thing but meat ; but I think it is mostly because the Islander has such a glorious climate and soil that the fruits of the earth grow for him almost untilled , and ...
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