Myths and Songs from the South PacificH. S. King & Company, 1876 - 328 pagini |
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Pagina 23
... branches of a bread - fruit tree of hers , growing close to the boundary line , extended themselves over the soil of the irritable Tangiia . As is frequently the case with this tree , one half of this bread - fruit was almost barren ...
... branches of a bread - fruit tree of hers , growing close to the boundary line , extended themselves over the soil of the irritable Tangiia . As is frequently the case with this tree , one half of this bread - fruit was almost barren ...
Pagina 45
... branch , to enable her to adjust the live coals without burning her fingers . Ina is indefatigable in the preparation of resplendent cloth , i.e. white clouds . The great stones needful for this purpose are also visible . As soon as her ...
... branch , to enable her to adjust the live coals without burning her fingers . Ina is indefatigable in the preparation of resplendent cloth , i.e. white clouds . The great stones needful for this purpose are also visible . As soon as her ...
Pagina 78
... branches , and fruit ; whilst the other was of a deep green . And thus came into existence the two principal varieties of the cocoa - nut ; the red being sacred to Tangaroa , and the green to Rongo . In proof of its being 78 Myths and ...
... branches , and fruit ; whilst the other was of a deep green . And thus came into existence the two principal varieties of the cocoa - nut ; the red being sacred to Tangaroa , and the green to Rongo . In proof of its being 78 Myths and ...
Pagina 82
... branches and wiry leaves , and towering above all its companions . It had four gigantic roots , gnarled and twisted in fantastic shapes . The torches were placed on the ground around the tree , making the night light as day . The four ...
... branches and wiry leaves , and towering above all its companions . It had four gigantic roots , gnarled and twisted in fantastic shapes . The torches were placed on the ground around the tree , making the night light as day . The four ...
Pagina 83
... branches , and leaves were now all of the brightest red : as if resenting the treatment it had received , it bled at every pore . They slowly wended their way homewards , but ere long the two surviving woodmen fell dead in the road ...
... branches , and leaves were now all of the brightest red : as if resenting the treatment it had received , it bled at every pore . They slowly wended their way homewards , but ere long the two surviving woodmen fell dead in the road ...
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