Wreck of the Glide: With Recollections of the Fijiis, and of Wallis IslandWiley & Putnam, 1848 - 203 sivua |
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abode American anchor arms arrived ashore barque batter-house beach beautiful beche-de-la-mer beche-le-mer boat Bonne Rarah Boore bread-fruit brig building canoes Captain Archer cargo chief Chinchilla cloth cocoa-nut crew dance death deck delight distance double canoe dress excited fear feast feet Fiji Islands Fijiians Fijiis fire fish forecastle frequently friends frigate fruit Geevahlu Glide hair hands harbor Harriet head hope hour hundred Kaahumanu Kanakas king land leaves Manilla Maninni mats Miambooa miles missionaries morning musket natives nearly New-Zealand night Oahu Overlou party passed peril piculs pleasant port priest procure provisions reef residence sailed Salem Sandwich Islands Santa Beeta savages second officer seemed seen sennit ship ship's shipmates shore side sight Society Islands soon spears storm Tacanova tapa Timbooa tion trade trees vessel village visited Vong Ouvie voyage Wallis Island whale-ship whilst wind worship wreck
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Sivu 74 - We were frequently visited by David Whepley, the American chieftain at Overlau; sometimes accompanied by two or three of his warriors. He was usually dressed as a sailor and had with him a loaded rifle whose good qualities were the main topic of his conversation. He also told us much concerning his singular life, and his adopted people, over whom he seemed to have great influence owing to his superior wisdom, and the good terms existing between him and the powerful king of Bou. The king of Bou sometimes...
Sivu 187 - As human nature's broadest, foulest blot, Chains him, and tasks him, and exacts his sweat With stripes that Mercy, with a bleeding heart, Weeps when she sees inflicted on a beast.
Sivu 119 - The tribes all first drank angona, and then, four or five natives, who attended each tribe as waiters, began dividing the food, and another taking on a plantain leaf a parcel of it, advanced to the master of the feast for the division, and asked 'quotha,' (for whom), when the name of some one being spoken aloud, the person thus designated clapped his hands to make known his position, and, being at once supplied with his portion, began eating it with strips of bamboo sharpened on one edge and pointed....
Sivu 93 - The principles of the Christian religion as professed by the Protestant and Roman Catholic churches, are recognized as teaching men to do good, and to do to others as they would have others do to them.
Sivu 26 - The same writer is responsible for the following : " The Friendly-Islanders frequently ply their large double canoes to and from the Fijis, a distance of about three hundred miles. Taking advantage of favourable winds, and directing their course in the daytime by the sun, and in the night by the moon and stars, they rarely deviate from a straight course between the groups. I have frequently seen their canoes sailing in a heavy sea at the rate of nine or ten knots an hour. The incredible swiftness...
Sivu 116 - leebo, leebo,' great, great; 'benacka, benacka,' good, good; ' mungety-leelo,' plenty of provisions; ' pookah^ pigs; ' ouvie,' yams; ' aooto,' bread-fruit; 'boondy,' plantains, all which expressions, of course, deeply impressed my imagination.
Sivu 98 - ... held an animated conference at which it was decided to spare his life, and he was taken by the chief into his family, and ever afterwards well provided for and kindly treated. "Several years after the loss of the Oreno, the Salem ship Clay, Captain Vanderford, of Salem, arrived at the same island. Carey's acquaintance with the language and customs of the natives enabled him to render important services in the way of trade. After the departure of the Clay from the islands Carey shipped on board...
Sivu 116 - ... held at a village about forty miles from Bonne Rarah. As the place, though on the island of Tacanova, was easiest of access by sailing, my shipmates, it was determined, should accompany the king in his double canoe, and I went with the chief with whom I made the inland excursion, in his single canoe. My patron I found to be very loquacious, for, instead of our holding a pleasant conversation together, he took upon himself to give me a lecture of what was to be expected at the coming festival,...
Sivu 117 - ... drew together many savages, from whose evident astonishment, as they gazed upon me, I conjectured that most of them had never seen a white man. Though we were kindly invited to spend the night here, yet the curiosity of the natives made them reluctant to retire from the Boore, and leave us to sleep. Our singular situation, exposure to attacks from savages, over whom kindness and ferocity hold rule by turns, and a consciousness of our almost complete helplessness in such a case, occasioned in...
Sivu 118 - ... telling me that the savages designed to detain me on their island, and that he had been anxiously devising some way to defeat their purpose. "At his suggestion, early in the morning, before the natives were stirring, we silently left the Boore. I placed myself on the chief's broad shoulders, and he held in one hand his war-club, and in the other his canoe-paddle. Thus we stole softly down the steep hill, and when we came to the beach, to our amazement, our canoe was nowhere to be seen. The chief...