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Updated: May 24, 2025
There was no sign of them. "We can't wait," I said. "This breeze won't fetch us to Bora Bora by dark, and I don't want to use any more gasolene than I have to." You see, gasolene in the South Seas is a problem. One never knows when he will be able to replenish his supply. But just then Tehei appeared through the trees as he came down to the water.
Not till more than a year after Catharine Bora had escaped from the convent did she become the wife of Martin Luther. The Count von Lindburg had been anxiously waiting news from Eric, but none had arrived.
He listened in good-humoured silence to the remainder of his uncle's lecture, which speedily branched to political reform, thence to the theory of the weather-glass, with an illustrative account of a bora in the Adriatic; thence again to the best manner of teaching arithmetic to the deaf-and-dumb; and with that, the sandwich being then no more, explicuit valde feliciter.
The Arabs in many cases will not allow women religious instruction. The Ansayrees consider woman to be an inferior being without a soul, and therefore exclude her from religious services. In the Sandwich Islands women were not allowed to share in worship or festivals. The Australians are very jealous lest women should look into their sacred mysteries. It is death for a woman to look into a Bora.
After a tedious walk, we arrived at an open plain, on which the grass was trodden down in every direction, in some places worn quite away by the feet of the natives for this was the great "bora ground" of the coast tribes, where the mystic ceremonies mentioned in a former chapter took place.
Now, similar 'softening of the heart' was the result of the teaching in the Australian Bora: the Yao mysteries inculcate the victory over self; and, till we are admitted to the secrets of all other savage mysteries throughout the world, we cannot tell whether, among mummeries, frivolities, and even license, high ethical doctrines are not presented under the sanction of religion.
He gave us his camps Bora Bora, Budgery-Gar, Wintelliga, and Gilgan since we were to go in his direction also soon. He turned round in his saddle as he rode off, and said gaily: "Gentlemen, I hope you'll always help to uphold the majesty of the law as nobly as you have sustained its envoy from your swags." Drysdale and I waved our hands to him, but Barlas muttered something between his teeth.
Whenever I think of myself I shall think of you. Whenever men call me by name I shall think of you. And beyond the sky and beyond the stars always and forever you shall be Otoo to me. Is it well, master?" I hid my smile and answered that it was well. We parted at Papeete. I remained ashore to recuperate, and he went on in a cutter to his own island, Bora Bora. Six weeks later he was back.
And she felt, vaguely, that in some form or another it would be paid for, and dearly paid for, as she had paid for everything. It was only as they steamed into the harbor of Trieste, in the teeth of a bora and a high-running sea, that this woman who longed to be altogether honest allowed herself any fleeting moment of self-pity.
'No bora, he threw in at intervals, to assure them that the obnoxious wind of the Adriatic need not disturb their calculations. It was an extraordinary sitting, but none of the parties to it thought of it so when Nevil Beauchamp had plunged them into it.
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