In Stevenson's SamoaSmith, Elder, & Company, 1895 - Počet stran: 190 |
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Strana 3
... roads , so good for riding and driving , and innumerable atolls , showing only a few feet above the waves and fringed with a continuous line of cocoa palms that turned and ruffled , tossing their feathery branches in the breeze . The ...
... roads , so good for riding and driving , and innumerable atolls , showing only a few feet above the waves and fringed with a continuous line of cocoa palms that turned and ruffled , tossing their feathery branches in the breeze . The ...
Strana 7
... lent - looking natives and a few white men , most of whom lifted their hats out of courtesy to the strangers , we came to a well - made road which turned sharply off to the right , leading straight up FIRST DAYS IN SAMOA 7.
... lent - looking natives and a few white men , most of whom lifted their hats out of courtesy to the strangers , we came to a well - made road which turned sharply off to the right , leading straight up FIRST DAYS IN SAMOA 7.
Strana 8
... road we followed , but slowly , for after the sea - breeze of weeks past the teeming warmth and wondrous beauty of the surroundings gave the feeling of wandering in dreamland . The luxuriant tropical foliage on either side , and the ...
... road we followed , but slowly , for after the sea - breeze of weeks past the teeming warmth and wondrous beauty of the surroundings gave the feeling of wandering in dreamland . The luxuriant tropical foliage on either side , and the ...
Strana 14
... road went part of the way to our house , and then a very good turf track took one right to the gate . There was a little native house close by , where our man , Mafulu , lived with his wife . He was a fine creature , and suggested so ...
... road went part of the way to our house , and then a very good turf track took one right to the gate . There was a little native house close by , where our man , Mafulu , lived with his wife . He was a fine creature , and suggested so ...
Strana 22
... road can do to be fantastic ; and when the rain falls , in a short space it is a verit- able torrent . This is the road that winds up through the forest to Vailima , the home of Robert Louis Stevenson . Vailima takes its name from vai ...
... road can do to be fantastic ; and when the rain falls , in a short space it is a verit- able torrent . This is the road that winds up through the forest to Vailima , the home of Robert Louis Stevenson . Vailima takes its name from vai ...
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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