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In Harris's "Voyages" there is a map giving "Cowley's Inchanted Isl." The passage quoted by Melville is not to be found in Cowley's "Voyage to Magellanica and Polynesia," given by Harris in the same volume, and must be taken from Cowley's "Voyage round the Globe," which I have not found in any library.
Britling to reflect that English homes and women and children were, after all, undergoing only the same kind of experience that our ships have inflicted scores of times in the past upon innocent people in the villages of Africa and Polynesia.... Each month the war grew bitterer and more cruel. Early in 1915 the Germans began their submarine war, and for a time Mr.
"Ah," cried the Doctor, "this great slab of rock then must have slid down from the summit and shut off the mouth of the cave like a door. Poor fellows! What a dreadful time they must have spent in there! Oh, if we only had some picks and shovels now!" "Picks and shovels wouldn't do much good," said Polynesia. "Look at the size of the slab: a hundred feet high and as many broad.
That that first Maori could come, is understandable, for anybody can come to a place when he isn't trying to; but how that discoverer found his way back home again without a compass is his secret, and he died with it in him. His language indicates that he came from Polynesia.
I go to Don Enrique and say, 'I bet you a hundred pounds the Doctor wins. Then if he does win, Don Enrique pays me a hundred pounds; and if he doesn't, I have to pay Don Enrique." "That's the idea," said Polynesia. "Only don't say a hundred pounds: say two-thousand five-hundred pesetas. Now come and find old Don Ricky-ticky and try to look rich."
Conceive the state of Tahiti, where, as through all Polynesia, the girls have their fling at promiscuity from puberty to the late teens or early twenties, when an immense and increasing population compelled the thinking men to devise a remedy for the starvation which in times of drought or comparative failure of the feis or breadfruit or a scarcity of fish menaced the nation!
Here they sold the cargo and obtained a commission from the firm of Johann Caesar Godeffroy and Sons, of Hamburg a firm that in Polynesia rivalled, in a small way, old John Company to procure for them two hundred or three hundred Line Island labourers at 100 dollars per head.
They had fled in an open boat to another island called Anuda one of those dark places of the earth where the good seed has not yet been sown." * Tuilagi "Queen of the Sky"; a name common in Polynesia. "And what was the nature and reason of your objection to their marriage?" said the Admiral quietly.
No, I really don't get time enough for reading much. That letter there is a K and this is a B." "What does this word under the picture mean?" I asked. "Let me see," she said, and started spelling it out. "B-A-B-O-O-N that's MONKEY. Reading isn't nearly as hard as it looks, once you know the letters." "Polynesia," I said, "I want to ask you something very important."
The whole fleet set off and sailed far away to other parts of the world. The ships of the line steered a straight course to Asia, the frigates sailed to Africa, the brigs to America, and the schooners to Polynesia. But Little Lasse remained in Europe, and threw small stones out into the great sea.
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