The Boy Travellers in Australasia: Adventures of Two Youths in a Journey to the Sandwich, Marquesas, Society, Samoan, and Feejee IslandsHarper, 1889 - 538 من الصفحات Originally written as a contribution to the Australian Centennial in 1888 based on the author's knowledge of the areas and subsequent historical and scientific research. Includes encounters with and observations about Australian Aboriginal people ; diet ; corroboree ; marriage & courtship customs ; initiation rituals. |
طبعات أخرى - عرض جميع المقتطفات
عبارات ومصطلحات مألوفة
aboriginals Adelaide American Auckland boat BOY TRAVELLERS Brisbane bush called Captain carried cattle chief churches Cloth coast colony continued convicts Cook coral Doctor Bronson Dunedin Easter Island England English Feejee Feejeean feet fifty Frank and Fred Frank asked Fred asked French friends Gardens gentleman gold Government harbor Hawaiian Honolulu horses hundred Illustrated inhabitants interior islands journey kangaroo killed King labor lake land Launceston lava Levuka live Maori war Maoris Marquesas Melbourne miles mining mission missionaries mountains natives nearly Pacific party population Port Queensland railway reef reply residents river Samoan scene sheep ship shore Society Islands South Australia South Island South Wales squatter station steam steamer story streets Suva Sydney tabu Tahiti Tasmania thousand tion told town trees tribes twenty Victoria volcano voyage Western Australia wind yards youths Zealand
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الصفحة 57 - Ye shall not round the corners of your heads, neither shalt thou mar the corners of thy beard. 28 Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks upon you : I am the LORD.
الصفحة 443 - From distant climes, o'er wide-spread seas we come, Though not with much eclat, or beat of drum ; True patriots all, for be it understood, We left our country, for our country's good...
الصفحة 538 - ROUND THE WORLD ; including a Residence in Victoria, and a Journey by Rail across North America. By a Boy. Edited by SAMUEL SMILES. Illustrated. 12mo, Cloth, $1 50.
الصفحة 443 - But, you inquire, what could our breast inflame, With this new passion for Theatric fame; What, in the practice of our former days, Could shape our talents to exhibit plays? Your patience, Sirs, some observations made, You'll grant us equal to the scenic trade. He, who to midnight ladders is no stranger, You'll own will make an admirable ranger.
الصفحة 444 - Our females have been used at night to walk. Sometimes, indeed, so various is our art, An actor may improve and mend his part ; " Give me a horse," bawls Richard, like a drone, We'll find a man would help himself to one.
الصفحة 444 - We often had recourse to th* flying leap; To a black face have sometimes ow'd escape, And Hounslow Heath has proved the worth of crape, But how, you ask, can we e'er hope to soar Above these scenes, and rise to tragic lore? Too oft, alas! we've forced th' unwilling tear, And petrified the heart with real fear.
الصفحة 538 - MR. STUBBS'S BROTHER; A Sequel to "Toby Tyler." TIM AND TIP; OR, THE ADVENTURES OF A BOY AND A Doc.