In Stevenson's SamoaSmith, Elder, & Company, 1895 - Počet stran: 190 |
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Výsledky 1-5 z 14
Strana 2
... feeling of luxury and peace pervaded our small world when , after about eight days , the winds and waters subsided and , unholy noises quite the worst part of a storm at sea -being silenced , our skipper beamingly announced he was going ...
... feeling of luxury and peace pervaded our small world when , after about eight days , the winds and waters subsided and , unholy noises quite the worst part of a storm at sea -being silenced , our skipper beamingly announced he was going ...
Strana 8
... feeling of wandering in dreamland . The luxuriant tropical foliage on either side , and the gorgeous birds that hovered over the great trumpet - shaped flowers and twittered quaint little songs from the branches of wild orange - trees ...
... feeling of wandering in dreamland . The luxuriant tropical foliage on either side , and the gorgeous birds that hovered over the great trumpet - shaped flowers and twittered quaint little songs from the branches of wild orange - trees ...
Strana 44
... feel welcome and at home . And though few of them could speak English , still , it was not difficult in a short time to pick up enough words and phrases of their language to say all that was necessary when we met . Absolute courtesy and ...
... feel welcome and at home . And though few of them could speak English , still , it was not difficult in a short time to pick up enough words and phrases of their language to say all that was necessary when we met . Absolute courtesy and ...
Strana 48
... language , we might think they were talking of us . Even the poorest Samoan appreciated the courtesy of good feeling , and some Europeans might with advantage take a lesson in courteous regard for 48 IN STEVENSON'S SAMOA.
... language , we might think they were talking of us . Even the poorest Samoan appreciated the courtesy of good feeling , and some Europeans might with advantage take a lesson in courteous regard for 48 IN STEVENSON'S SAMOA.
Strana 53
... feeling constrained to inquire the reason , replied , absent - mindedly , that he did not care to eat more ants in his bread than was necessary ; at he which his hosts concluded he had evidently so- journed too OUR ISLAND HOME 53.
... feeling constrained to inquire the reason , replied , absent - mindedly , that he did not care to eat more ants in his bread than was necessary ; at he which his hosts concluded he had evidently so- journed too OUR ISLAND HOME 53.
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afternoon Apia appeared asked bananas beach beautiful Billy blue bread-fruit brown brown islanders Bully Hayes carried chief Christmas Cipau clad clothes cocoa-nut coloured Consulate cook coral coral bays dark delightful dinner dishes dress excitement feet flowers forest friends garlands guests hair hastened head heard hibiscus horses house-boys husband kava kind kindly lava-lava live look Louis Stevenson Mafulu Matalanumoana Matautu mats Misifolo Monkey morning mountains Mulinuu native girls neighbours never night Pacific Pacific islands palm palusame passed picturesque plantation present pretty reef Robert Louis Stevenson round rushed Samoan schooner shanty sight smiling Soenga Solomon Island soon South Sea stove strangers talking-men Talofa Talolo Tamaitai tapa tapo taro tattooed things tiffin Tofa told took trees tropic Tusitala Tuvale Ulla Upolu Vailima verandah village wear wife woman wonderful young youth