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He and some others were driven away from Fiji on account of bad conduct. When he came to Samoa the land had been divided, but he got his share, as the tail of Atua. He built a large house, and from this house of Lili the district was named. It embraces a number of villages and adjacent places, named after local circumstances or events.
In Fiji women are kept away from worship and excluded from all the temples. The women of some of the Indian hill-tribes may not sacrifice nor appear at shrines, nor take part in religious festivals. In New Ireland women are not allowed to approach the temples.
"'DINGBLATTER' is a Fiji word meaning 'degrees." "You knew the English of it, then?" "Oh, yes." "What is 'GNILLIC'? "That is the Eskimo term for 'snow." "So you knew the English for that, too?" "Why, certainly." "What does 'MMBGLX' stand for?" "That is Zulu for 'pedestrian." "'While the form of the Wellhorn looking down upon it completes the enchanting BOPPLE. What is 'BOPPLE'?"
Another story says that Lu came from the west with his fowls, and that from his crew all the islands of the group were peopled. He was said to have come from Pulotu, Papatea, Pau, Vau, Aoao, and Ngaelu. Others say he came with his fowls direct from Tafiti apaau, or the Winged Fiji. Two of the people of Tangaloa of the heavens came down to fish.
She was pale, but yet, I imagined, looking better than she had when we last met. She went into the subject at once. "Mr. Sherry, will it not be possible for you to let me go with you in the boat?" "Yes, you can come. But I tell you frankly that we may never see Samoa or Fiji, for the risks of such a long voyage must necessarily be very great, even if we have fine weather all the way."
There appears to be a movement away from Australian totemism, growing more pronounced as we go eastward, and culminating in Fiji, in which totemic features are very rare. +478+. In the Bismarck Archipelago every class has connected with it certain animals regarded as relatives, but in New Britain, apparently, not as ancestors.
I am bound to Noumea, New Caledonia, and from there I can send them on to Sydney or Fiji for the trial wish I could dispose of them both in the good old-fashioned style, by dangling them from the end of the yard-arm. Now as to this other man, Barradas. He seems to have made all the amends possible in his power, but nevertheless he certainly was their accomplice in the piracy of the vessel.
GEORGIANA W. We are much obliged, but do not think the essay fit for our amateur page, nor is the subject new nor interesting enough. ETON GARDENS had better wear gloves to protect the hands. We know no other way. A FIJI GIRL. The work of a bookkeeper is the same almost everywhere. She keeps books, and in a hotel she would make out the accounts of the visitors, of course.
He says that he has just heard from Taro, who gets the information I know not how, that there are to the southward of this several coral islands, where abundance of mother-of-pearl and also pearls of great size are to be procured; and thus, instead of sailing west, as we had proposed, he has arranged with Captain Fuller to sail once more south towards the Hervey group, and to touch at the Friendly, Fiji, and many other islands, ere we once more steer north-west towards our destination.
If the sick man has been plunged into stupor, it is because his other self has travelled away as far as the brink of the river of death, but not being allowed to cross has come back and re-entered him. And acting upon a similar notion the ailing Fiji will sometimes lie down and raise a hue and cry for his soul to be brought back. Thus, continues Mr.
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