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Updated: June 15, 2025
The roots have a kind of fantastic resemblance to the human shape; Pliny describes them as being 'of a fleshy substance and tender. Now it is one of the recognised principles in magic, that things like each other, however superficially, affect each other in a mystic way, and possess identical properties. Thus, in Melanesia, according to Mr.
This was interesting to me because of certain scientific details, though on the whole the life was much the same as elsewhere in Melanesia, with the Suque, etc. I collected a number of charms and amulets, which the people sold willingly, as they no longer believed in their power. Formerly, they were supposed to be useful for poisoning, as love-charms, or for help in collecting many tusked pigs.
'Who was the Martyr of Melanesia? 'I have never heard of him, said Hyacinth. 'Never heard of the Martyr of Melanesia! said Elsie. 'Why, we knew that at once. 'Yes, said Marion, 'there was an article on him in last month's Gleaner. Surely you read the Gleaner, Mr. Conneally? Hyacinth felt Marion's eyes fixed on him with something of a reproach in them.
Some dear friends write to me differently, but they don't quite understand, as you have taken pains to do, what our position is out here; and they don't see that my absence would involve great probable injury to the whole work. 'It is curious how few there are who know anything of New Zealand and Melanesia!
It had been my lot, in the Solomon Islands, to witness one of the most hideous and appalling massacres of a ship's crew that was ever perpetrated by natives a massacre that had filled my youthful mind with the most intense and unreasoning hatred of all "niggers," as we called the natives of Melanesia.
'The sorcerer occasionally makes men take hold of a stick, which, after a time, begins to move as if endowed with life, and ultimately carries them off bodily and with great speed to the house of the thief. The process is just that of Jacques Aymard in the celebrated story of the detection of the Lyons murderer. In Melanesia, far enough away, Dr.
As I mentioned elsewhere, a man's rise in caste is marked on every occasion by the receipt of new fire, rubbed on a special stick ornamented with flowers. Fire is lighted here, as in all Melanesia, by "ploughing," a small stick being rubbed lengthwise in a larger one.
In some parts of Melanesia a like belief prevails that certain sacred stones are endowed with miraculous powers which correspond in their nature to the shape of the stone. Thus a piece of water-worn coral on the beach often bears a surprising likeness to a bread-fruit.
The heathen parts of Maoridom are being evangelised by agents sent by the Church of the land the South Island for this purpose helping the more heavily-burdened North. But all parts combine in following up Selwyn's mission to Melanesia.
* Having no salt, the bush tribes of Melanesia, who dare not visit the coast, buy salt water from the coast tribes. They meet a a spot which is always sacredly kept as a neutral ground. "Well," resumed the ruffian, "you will sleep at Rogga with the missionary and his wife. In the morning, when you and your people awake, the missionary and his wife will be dead.
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