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... of the islands and the manners and customs of the natives as they exist . Much that is interesting from a scientific and ethnological point of view will be found in the volume . FROM THE SOUTH PACIFIC . BY THE REV . WILLIAM.
... of the islands and the manners and customs of the natives as they exist . Much that is interesting from a scientific and ethnological point of view will be found in the volume . FROM THE SOUTH PACIFIC . BY THE REV . WILLIAM.
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... natives the Bible story , and that it became incorporated with their own notions . The jawbone , too , with which we are told that Maui , the great solar hero of the Polynesians , destroyed his enemies , is absent in Mangaia . When I ...
... natives the Bible story , and that it became incorporated with their own notions . The jawbone , too , with which we are told that Maui , the great solar hero of the Polynesians , destroyed his enemies , is absent in Mangaia . When I ...
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... time , the Hindus might well be supposed to have been ashamed ? I mention all this for the sole purpose of * Bancroft , Native Races , vol . v . p . 20 . preaching patience and caution ; and I preach it against xvi Preface .
... time , the Hindus might well be supposed to have been ashamed ? I mention all this for the sole purpose of * Bancroft , Native Races , vol . v . p . 20 . preaching patience and caution ; and I preach it against xvi Preface .
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... native intellect , and tended to the preservation of the ancient faith . The writer's object is simply to aid the student of ethnology in his researches . While there is much that is puerile and absurd in this heathen philosophy , there ...
... native intellect , and tended to the preservation of the ancient faith . The writer's object is simply to aid the student of ethnology in his researches . While there is much that is puerile and absurd in this heathen philosophy , there ...
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... natives have light hair , a colour greatly disliked amongst themselves , but in their view suitable to foreigners . Το this day a golden - haired child is invariably addressed in playful allusion to this myth , as " the fair - haired ...
... natives have light hair , a colour greatly disliked amongst themselves , but in their view suitable to foreigners . Το this day a golden - haired child is invariably addressed in playful allusion to this myth , as " the fair - haired ...
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