Narrative of the United States Exploring Expedition: During the Years 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842, Vydání 3Lea and Blanchard, 1845 Trade or public edition of Wilkes's narrative of the expedition directed to the general reader. The expedition roved from the southern most tip of South America to the Oregon coast, through the south and north Pacific and Antarctic waters. In the course of the expedition many locations were visited: Brazil, Patagonia, Chile, Peru, Samoa, Fiji, Tahiti, Borneo, the Philippines, Singapore with extended stays at Hawaii, Australia and New Zealand. This and all eds later than 1845 appeared without an atlas. |
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... women belonging to the village were engaged in picking up shells and fishing , a canoe belonging to the Lasikaus , or fishermen , in passing by the reef , seized and carried off two of them , as it was believed , for cannibal purposes ...
... women belonging to the village were engaged in picking up shells and fishing , a canoe belonging to the Lasikaus , or fishermen , in passing by the reef , seized and carried off two of them , as it was believed , for cannibal purposes ...
Strana 338
... women , who are generally employed at it early in the morning , and a woman can make ten fathoms of cloth a day . The tapa is also printed after the manner which has been described in treating of the Samoan Group . WOMAN BRAIDING . The ...
... women , who are generally employed at it early in the morning , and a woman can make ten fathoms of cloth a day . The tapa is also printed after the manner which has been described in treating of the Samoan Group . WOMAN BRAIDING . The ...
Strana 355
... women , and is chiefly confined to the parts which are covered by the liku . The women believe that to be tattooed is a passport to the other world , where it prevents them from being persecuted by their own sex , numbers of whom , by ...
... women , and is chiefly confined to the parts which are covered by the liku . The women believe that to be tattooed is a passport to the other world , where it prevents them from being persecuted by their own sex , numbers of whom , by ...
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