Samoa, a Hundred Years Ago and Long Before: Together with Notes on the Cults and Customs of Twenty-three Other Islands in the Pacific |
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... kind of silken stuff artificially wrought . " It was in 1840 that George Turner's life in the islands began , when he went out under the London Missionary Society , whose Samoan mission had then been established some ten years . His ...
... kind of silken stuff artificially wrought . " It was in 1840 that George Turner's life in the islands began , when he went out under the London Missionary Society , whose Samoan mission had then been established some ten years . His ...
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... kind , has nowhere been brought so clearly into view as in the account of the war god Tongo , who was incarnate in the owl , so that when a dead owl was found the islanders wailed and mourned , beating their foreheads with stones after ...
... kind , has nowhere been brought so clearly into view as in the account of the war god Tongo , who was incarnate in the owl , so that when a dead owl was found the islanders wailed and mourned , beating their foreheads with stones after ...
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... time it was supposed that Samoa was destitute of any kind of religion , and by some of the early visitors the people were called " the godless Samoans . " On closer acquaintance with them , how- CHAPTER III - A FUTURE STATE-RELIGION, ETC.
... time it was supposed that Samoa was destitute of any kind of religion , and by some of the early visitors the people were called " the godless Samoans . " On closer acquaintance with them , how- CHAPTER III - A FUTURE STATE-RELIGION, ETC.
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... kind from the planta- tions of his neighbours , and , if chased , suddenly dis- appeared ; and hence they considered he was a god , and prayed to him and laid down offerings . 5. In another family Moso was said to appear , but only one ...
... kind from the planta- tions of his neighbours , and , if chased , suddenly dis- appeared ; and hence they considered he was a god , and prayed to him and laid down offerings . 5. In another family Moso was said to appear , but only one ...
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... kind belonging to that place , were supposed to be media by which the long tooth might be conveyed and cause disease and death . One day the tooth was visible to an old lady , and struck by some scalding greens which she threw at it ...
... kind belonging to that place , were supposed to be media by which the long tooth might be conveyed and cause disease and death . One day the tooth was visible to an old lady , and struck by some scalding greens which she threw at it ...
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Ahtiago Aneiteum Apolima banana battle bird body bread-fruit brother buried bush called cannibal canoe chief child club cocoa-nut College cooked Crown 8vo daughter death district earth Edition English engraved Eromanga Falealupo father fcap feast feet fight Fiji fire fish fought fowl friends Galela gods heads of families heavens hence HISTORY Illustrations incarnate island JEENS killed king laid land Langi leaf Lima lived LL.D Mafuie Malietoa Manono Manu'a Maps married Mata mats Menado moon Moreton Bay Moso Mysot native cloth Nengone Niua Niue offerings oven party pigs plantations POLYNESIAN Portrait prayed prayer priest principal Professor Pulotu rocks Rotuma round sacred Samoan Saparua Savaii shell Siati sick spear stones story supposed Talanga Tama Tama iti Tangaloa taro temple Tidore Tinilau Tokelau told Tonga took tree Tutuila Upolu Vaté village wife woman women worshipped yams
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