Identifier: easternpacificla00chri (find matches)
Title: Eastern Pacific lands ; Tahiti and the Marquesas islands
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Christian, F. W. (Frederick William), b. 1867 Rouse, Martin Luther Ranfurly, Uchter John Mark Knox. 5th earl of, 1856-
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Publisher: London : R. Scott
Contributing Library: Brigham Young University Hawaii, Joseph F. Smith Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Consortium of Church Libraries and Archives

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o me, and for his benevolent sym-pathy with the natives, and left with him severalletters of introduction to Sam Kekela and his fatherat Puamau, and to several of the chiefs at Hiva-Oa,and early next morning the Hyacinth was steamingout of the bay, bound for the great Southern island,on the conclusion of her mission of peace and good-will. The next day but one, the long-expected TropicBird flitted in under a cloud of canvas. After an affecting farewell with Queen Vaekehuand her people, and a friendly leave-taking with theFrench Resident and the now fully-reconciled offi-cials, I conveyed my boxes and packages of assorted 192 Eastern Pacific Lands curios and odds and ends of luggage on board, and,leaning over the bulwarks, as the beautiful craftglided from her moorings, all sail spread to the coolland-breeze sweeping down from the mountain high-lands bathed in the sunset gold and amber of thedying day, I viewed the blue peaks of lofty Nuku-Hiva melt and melt into the soft evening haze.
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POKER-WORK DESIGNS ON BAMBOO.From Atuona, Hiva-Oa Island (S. Marquesas) Appendix A i. RAROTONGA: ITS PEOPLE AND ITS PRESENTCONDITION The people of the Cook or Hervey Group, which comprisesthe islands of Rarotonga, Aitutaki, Mangaia, Atiu, Mauke,and Miti-aro, together with nine lesser islets, form a con-necting ethnic link between the polished Tahitian, and theruder and more warlike New Zealander. All three races alike,and several others of the light-brown Ocean peoples, callthemselves by the national name of Maori. Even the wildMarquesans style themselves Maoi. The word is an adjec-tive meaning native, indigenous, aboriginal, autochthonous.It is, undoubtedly, a Semitic word borrowed from the earlyArab sea-rovers from Bassorah, who, as can be clearly shownfrom any intelligent study of the Ocean languages, formedmore or less permanent settlements in Polynesia. TheArabic cognates of the word are— Maulid : Nativity, birth, native land, birth-place ; andMa-ulud: Born, generated, a son, b

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