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... pigs to be cooked if you please , and here are the knives to cut us up with . " They would even carry a culprit slung on a pole like a pig , wrap him in leaves , and put him into the pit in the ground which is the native oven ; but it ...
... pigs to be cooked if you please , and here are the knives to cut us up with . " They would even carry a culprit slung on a pole like a pig , wrap him in leaves , and put him into the pit in the ground which is the native oven ; but it ...
Page 33
... pigs . If the visitors , in recounting and shouting out in public , as they do , what they had got , said that there were eleven pigs , it was supposed that the god had added one . Then they would compare notes , and say : " Oh yes , it ...
... pigs . If the visitors , in recounting and shouting out in public , as they do , what they had got , said that there were eleven pigs , it was supposed that the god had added one . Then they would compare notes , and say : " Oh yes , it ...
Page 50
... pigs and other food to visitors , there was an odd one over and above found among the lot , and this they attributed to the special favour of the god ( see II ) . A story of his kindness to Nonu , one of his worshippers , relates that ...
... pigs and other food to visitors , there was an odd one over and above found among the lot , and this they attributed to the special favour of the god ( see II ) . A story of his kindness to Nonu , one of his worshippers , relates that ...
Page 55
... pigs were bought , and a grand feast was the final adieu to the darkness and follies of the past . 3. In another place Taema was a war god , and present in a bundle of sharks ' teeth . These curiosities were done up in a piece of native ...
... pigs were bought , and a grand feast was the final adieu to the darkness and follies of the past . 3. In another place Taema was a war god , and present in a bundle of sharks ' teeth . These curiosities were done up in a piece of native ...
Page 62
... pig to the number prepared by the people . If six were laid down , the guests found , when they separated the heap of dainties they had received , that there would be seven instead of six . The trick of adding secretly a pig was carried ...
... pig to the number prepared by the people . If six were laid down , the guests found , when they separated the heap of dainties they had received , that there would be seven instead of six . The trick of adding secretly a pig was carried ...
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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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