Identifier: boytravellersina00knox (find matches)
Title: The boy travellers in Australasia : adventures of two youths in a journey to the Sandwich, Marquesas, Society, Samoan and Feejee islands, and through the colonies of New Zealand, New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, Tasmania, and South Australia
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: Knox, Thomas Wallace, 1835-1896 Harper & Brothers. pbl
Subjects: Voyages and travels Adventure and adventurers Tutors and tutoring Friendship Sailing Sailors Animals Natural history
Publisher: New York : Harper & Brothers
Contributing Library: School of Theology, Boston University
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston University

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S>^ IN A GALE NEAR THE MARQUESAS. therefore became places of refuge to men fleeing from an enemv, ex-actly like the Cities of Refuge mentioned in the Bible. It was tabu totouch the person of a chief or any article belonging to him, or eat any-thing he had touched. In the Tonga Islands it was tabu to speak thename of father or mother or of father-in-law or mother-in-law^, to touchthem, or to eat in their presence except with the back turned, when theywere constructively supposed to be absent.5 6Q THE BOY TKAVELLERS IN AUSTRALASIA.
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COMMODORE PORTERs FLEET IN NOOKAHEEVA BAT. In the Feejee Islands it was tabu for brother and sister and first-cousins to speak together or eat from the same dish. Husband andwife could not eat from the same dish, and a father could not speakto his son if the latter was more than fifteen years old! The tabu was a very convenient poHce system, as any exposedproperty could be made safe by being tabooed. The chiefs and priestscould tabu anything they chose; Avhen a feast was about to come off ORIGIN OF THE MEEMAID MYTH. 67 the cliief would previously tabu certain articles of food, and thus insurean abundance on the day of the festival. Violation of certain kinds oftabu was punished with death ; other and smaller violations had variouspenalties affixed, and they generally included sacrifices or presents tothe gods, or the payment of fines to the chiefs. Well, here in the Marquesas, among other prohibitions, it was tabufor a woman to enter a canoe or boat. Men had a monopoly of all pad-dlin

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