 | 1799 - 358 páginas
...copies of the scriptures. For these many waited five or six weeks, while they were printing. Sometimes I have seen a canoe arrive with six or ten persons for books, who, when they have landed, have produced a large bundle of letters, perhaps thirty or forty, written on plantain leaves, and rolled... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1830 - 622 páginas
...copies of the Scriptures. For these many waited five or six weeks, while they were printing. Sometimes I have seen a canoe arrive, with six or ten persons,...of letters, perhaps thirty or forty, •written on plaintain leaves, and rolled up like a scroll. These letters had been written by individuals, who were... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1830 - 620 páginas
...copies of the Scriptures. For these many waited five or six weeks, while they were printing. Sometimes I have seen a canoe arrive, with six or ten persons,...bundle of letters, perhaps thirty or forty, written on plaintain leaves, and rolled up like a scroll. These letters had been written by individuals, who were... | |
 | F. B. Miller - 1833 - 220 páginas
...will read you a short extract I have made from Mr. ElhYs narrative on this subject. " ' Sometimes I have seen a canoe arrive with six or ten persons, for books, who, when they were landed, have brought a large bundle of letters, perhaps thirty or forty, written on plantain leaves,... | |
 | 1835 - 542 páginas
...landed, have brought a large bundle of letters, perhaps thirty or forty, written on plantain-leaves, and rolled up like a scroll. These letters had been...had therefore thus sent, in order to procure a copy. One evening, about sunset, a canoe from Tahiti, with five men, arrived on this errand. They landed... | |
 | 1835 - 538 páginas
...copies of the Scriptures. For these, many waited five or six weeks while they were printing. Sometimes I have seen a canoe arrive with six or ten persons for...bundle of letters, perhaps thirty or forty, written on plantain-leaves, and rolled up like a scroll. These letters had been written by individuals, who were... | |
 | 1835 - 298 páginas
...copies of the Scriptures. For these, many waited five or six weeks while they were printing. Sometimes I have seen a canoe arrive with six or ten persons for...books, who, when they have landed, have brought a largo bundle of letters, perhaps thirty or forty, written on plantain-leaves, and rolled up like a... | |
 | 1849 - 356 páginas
...copies of the scriptures. For these many waited five or six weeks, while they were printing. Sometimes I have seen a canoe arrive with six or ten persons for books, who, when they have landed, have produced a large bundle of letters, perhaps thirty or forty, written on plantain leaves, and rolled... | |
 | Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1830 - 624 páginas
...copies of the scriptures. For these many waited five or six weeks, while they were printing. Sometimes I have seen a canoe arrive, with six or ten persons,...These letters had been written by individuals who were nnable to come and apply personally for a book, and had, therefore, thus sent, in order to procure... | |
 | 1848 - 876 páginas
...copies of the Scriptures. For these many waited five or six weeks, while they were printing. Sometimes I have seen a canoe arrive with six or ten persons for...leaves, and rolled up like a scroll. These letters have been written by individuals who were unable to come and apply personally for a book, and had therefore... | |
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Eimes, or from some other island, lying along the beach ; in each of which five or six persons had arrived, whose only errand was to procure copies of the Scriptures. For these many waited five or six weeks, while they were printing. Sometimes I have... 
