Typee: A Narrative of a Four Months' Residence Among the Natives of a Valley of the Marquesas Islands, Or a Peep at Polynesian LifeDial Press, 1947 - 319 páginas |
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... sight of land ; cruising after the sperm- A whale beneath the scorching sun of the Line , and tossed on the billows of the wide - rolling Pacific - the sky above , the sea around , and nothing else ! Weeks and weeks ago our fresh ...
... sight of land ; cruising after the sperm- A whale beneath the scorching sun of the Line , and tossed on the billows of the wide - rolling Pacific - the sky above , the sea around , and nothing else ! Weeks and weeks ago our fresh ...
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... sight . But the most impressive feature of the scene was the almost unbroken silence that reigned over sky and water . Scarcely a sound could be heard but the occasional breathing of the grampus , and the rippling at the cut - water ...
... sight . But the most impressive feature of the scene was the almost unbroken silence that reigned over sky and water . Scarcely a sound could be heard but the occasional breathing of the grampus , and the rippling at the cut - water ...
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... sight . At the top of the cocoa - nut tree the numerous branches , radiating on all sides from a common centre , form a sort of green and waving basket , between the leaflets of which you just discern the nuts thickly clustering ...
... sight . At the top of the cocoa - nut tree the numerous branches , radiating on all sides from a common centre , form a sort of green and waving basket , between the leaflets of which you just discern the nuts thickly clustering ...
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appeared arms arva Awha bamboo beach beautiful beheld beneath boat boughs bread-fruit calabash cannibals canoe captain chief civilised cocoa-nut tree companion countenance delight descended distance elevated endeavoured entered eyes Fayaway feet fellow females formed frigate fruit gazed George Paulet gestures girls ground hand Happar head heva inhabitants inmates Jimmy Kannaka Kolory Kory-Kory leaves light limbs looked Marnoo Marquesas Marquesas Islands mats Mehevi mind Moa Artua morning mountains Mow-Mow muskets natives nearly never night nuee Nuku Nukuheva Oahu observed occasion old Marheyo once passed peculiar perceived pi-pi poee poee-poee Polynesian present proceeded regard remained repose rock sailor Sandwich Islands savages scene seemed seen ship shore shouts side sight singular soon South Seas spear stones stood strange stream Tahiti tappa tattooing thought tion Toby Toby's Tommo tribe vale valley of Typee vessel warrior whole yards young