 Ropes of many coloured, sweet-smelling flowers were twisted round our necks and waists, and wreaths placed on our heads. Everyone was decked out in like manner — our host wearing his wreath of white jessamine with grace and distinction as if to the...  In Stevenson's Samoa - Strana 29autor/autoři: Marie Fraser - 1895 - 190 str.Úplné zobrazení - Podrobnosti o knize
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1894 - 828 str.
...drink of kava, we were carried away to be suitably decorated for the feast. Ropes of many coloured, sweet-smelling flowers were twisted round our necks...way with his wife. Coming out of the darkness into tic sight met our eyes. A of cocoanut palms, layers of again covered by many finely^ 7- was difficult... | |
 | 1894 - 852 str.
...sweet-smelling flowers were twisted round our necks and waists, and wreaths placed on our heads. Every one was decked out in like manner — our host wearing...blaze of torchlight a quaintly fantastic sight met our eyes. A native house thatched with branches of cocoanut palms, layers of palm leaves on the floor,... | |
 | Sir John Alexander Hammerton - 1903 - 382 str.
...household as to the correct procedure, according to the native courtesy, for the guests to go in to the feast, spread in a large native house which had...of torchlight, a quaintly fantastic sight met our eyes. A native house thatched with branches of cocoa-nut palms, layers of palm leaves on the floor,... | |
 | Sir John Alexander Hammerton - 1903 - 380 str.
...household as to the correct procedure, according to the native courtesy, for the guests to go in to the feast, spread in a large native house which had just been completed. At last the iniVhH * * tricacies of the Samoan etiquette were solved, and Feast away we all trooped, Mr. Stevenson... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1894 - 684 str.
...drink of kava, we were carried away to be suitably decorated for the feast. Ropes of many coloured, sweet-smelling flowers were twisted round our necks...blaze of torchlight a quaintly fantastic sight met our eyes. A native house thatched with branches of cocoanut palms, layers of palm leaves on the floor,... | |
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