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... cloth , receiving European ideas from the pulpit , the school , and the newspaper , indoctrinated with white men's vir- tues , and , alas ! often still more deeply imbued with white men's vices . It is thus plain how great.
... cloth , receiving European ideas from the pulpit , the school , and the newspaper , indoctrinated with white men's vir- tues , and , alas ! often still more deeply imbued with white men's vices . It is thus plain how great.
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... clothes , and live as long as he pleases freely in any house of a clansman . Here is a people who hear with wonder that among the white men the poor can be hungry and houseless . From this sorrow and disgrace the Samoans are free ; but ...
... clothes , and live as long as he pleases freely in any house of a clansman . Here is a people who hear with wonder that among the white men the poor can be hungry and houseless . From this sorrow and disgrace the Samoans are free ; but ...
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... CLOTHING 118 CHAPTER X. AMUSEMENTS 124 CHAPTER XI . -MORTALITY , LONGEVITY , DISEASES , ETC. 135 CHAPTER XII . -DEATH AND BURIAL . 144 HOUSES CHAPTER XIII . 152 CHAPTER XIV . CANOES 162 CHAPTER XV . ARTICLES OF MANUFACTURE CHAPTER XVI ...
... CLOTHING 118 CHAPTER X. AMUSEMENTS 124 CHAPTER XI . -MORTALITY , LONGEVITY , DISEASES , ETC. 135 CHAPTER XII . -DEATH AND BURIAL . 144 HOUSES CHAPTER XIII . 152 CHAPTER XIV . CANOES 162 CHAPTER XV . ARTICLES OF MANUFACTURE CHAPTER XVI ...
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... cloth by stretching over to it , and hence this white cloth became an emblem of the god , and his worshippers in going to battle were known by white turbans , which they thought would please the god and be a defence against the enemy ...
... cloth by stretching over to it , and hence this white cloth became an emblem of the god , and his worshippers in going to battle were known by white turbans , which they thought would please the god and be a defence against the enemy ...
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... cloth only prolonged the disease . 17. NAVE . Nave was the name of a village god on the island of Tutuila . It was represented by a stone called Maa o Nave , or the stone of Nave . This was abbreviated and euphonised into Amanave , and ...
... cloth only prolonged the disease . 17. NAVE . Nave was the name of a village god on the island of Tutuila . It was represented by a stone called Maa o Nave , or the stone of Nave . This was abbreviated and euphonised into Amanave , and ...
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Ahtiago Aneiteum Apolima banana battle bird body bread-fruit brother buried bush called cannibal canoe chief child club cocoa-nut College cooked Crown 8vo daughter death district earth Edition English engraved Eromanga Falealupo father fcap feast feet fight Fiji fire fish fought fowl friends Galela gods heads of families heavens hence HISTORY Illustrations incarnate island JEENS killed king laid land Langi leaf Lima lived LL.D Mafuie Malietoa Manono Manu'a Maps married Mata mats Menado moon Moreton Bay Moso Mysot native cloth Nengone Niua Niue offerings oven party pigs plantations POLYNESIAN Portrait prayed prayer priest principal Professor Pulotu rocks Rotuma round sacred Samoan Saparua Savaii shell Siati sick spear stones story supposed Talanga Tama Tama iti Tangaloa taro temple Tidore Tinilau Tokelau told Tonga took tree Tutuila Upolu Vaté village wife woman women worshipped yams
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