Download or read book Wreck of the Glide with recollections of the Fijis and of Wallis Island Edited by W G D i e William G Dix written by James OLIVER (of Cambridge, Mass.) and published by . This book was released on 1848 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Wreck of the Glide written by James Oliver and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-05-25 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Wreck of the Glide: With Recollections of the Fijiis, and of Wallis Island Or the manuscript from which this volume has been prepared for publication, that part which bears date pre viously to my departure from the Sandwich Islands, in the United States frigate Potomac, in the month of August, 1832, was written during my residence of about three months upon Oahu; the remainder, with some exceptions, was written about the time the incidents, herein mentioned, occurred. Thus the narrative is, for the most part, the production of my memory. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Wreck of the Glide written by James Oliver and published by Sagwan Press. This book was released on 2015-08-21 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book Wreck of the Glide written by James Oliver and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-08-25 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Wreck of the Glide: With an Account of Life and Manners at the Fijii Islands Of all mariners, the most deserving of sympathy is the young sailor, as he stands bewildered during a storm. He hears the orders sounding through the shrill trumpet, as if something must be done now or never, but has not yet learned their meaning. He is expected to act with the promptness and decision of the veteran mariner. Distracted and perplexed, yet eager to do his duty, he reels this way and that, seizes this and that rope, trem bles as he climbs the slippery shrouds, and, after doing his best, is hazed by his shipmates from whom he expect ed kindness, and by his officers, who, he hoped, would make allowance for his inexperience, and to whom he looked for protection and advice. In the neighborhood of the Equator, the crew were put on an allowance of five pints of water to a man. The supply was small for men toiling under the heat of a trop ical sun, and subsisting upon salt provisions. Nor was the water very agreeable. Fortunately, we had been but a few days in this situation, when, thick clouds aris ing, screened us from the brassy heavens, and poured their grateful contents upon the deck. N 0 orders from the officers were necessary to bestir the men, to secure the treasure, for every one was impatient to do his duty. The rain fell in torrents and continuously for several hours, during which time the crew were busily employed in conveying the water from the quarter-boats to the casks below. Thus timely relieved, our energies received new life, and a fresh impulse was given to things. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Download or read book Wrecked Among Cannibals in the Fijis written by William Endicott and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Death Rites and Hawaiian Royalty written by Ralph Thomas Kam and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2017-10-11 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The bones of Hawaii's King Kamehameha the Great were hidden at night in a secret location. In contrast, his successor Kamehameha III had a half-mile-long funeral procession to the Royal Tomb watched by thousands. Drawing on missionary journals, government publications and Hawaiian and English language newspapers, this book describes changes in funerary practices for Hawaiian royalty and details the observance of each royal death beginning with that of Kamehameha in 1819. Funeral observances of Western royalty provided an extravagant model for their Hawaiian counterparts yet many indigenous practices endured. Mourners no longer knocked out their teeth or tattooed their tongues but mass wailing, feather standards and funeral dirges continued well into the 20th century. Dozens of historic drawings and photographs provide rare glimpses of the obsequies of the Kamehameha and Kalakaua dynasties. Descriptions of the burial sites provide locations of the final resting places of Hawaii's royalty.
Download or read book Cannibal Talk written by Gananath Obeyesekere and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2005-06-06 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this radical reexamination of the notion of cannibalism, Gananath Obeyesekere offers a fascinating and convincing argument that cannibalism is mostly "cannibal talk," a discourse on the Other engaged in by both indigenous peoples and colonial intruders that results in sometimes funny and sometimes deadly cultural misunderstandings. Turning his keen intelligence to Polynesian societies in the early periods of European contact and colonization, Obeyesekere deconstructs Western eyewitness accounts, carefully examining their origins and treating them as a species of fiction writing and seamen's yarns. Cannibalism is less a social or cultural fact than a mythic representation of European writing that reflects much more the realities of European societies and their fascination with the practice of cannibalism, he argues. And while very limited forms of cannibalism might have occurred in Polynesian societies, they were largely in connection with human sacrifice and carried out by a select community in well-defined sacramental rituals. Cannibal Talk considers how the colonial intrusion produced a complex self-fulfilling prophecy whereby the fantasy of cannibalism became a reality as natives on occasion began to eat both Europeans and their own enemies in acts of "conspicuous anthropophagy."
Download or read book Wreck of the Glide with Recollections of the Fijiis and of Wallis Island written by James Oliver and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1848 edition. Excerpt: ... and two feet apart, one end being secured to the foundation, and the other to the top of the building. Closely placed across these poles were narrow strips of bamboo. The building was thatched with leaves, and had three doors. On the 28th of March, Capt. Archer, Mr. Carey, and two or three of our men, sailed in our boat, by the king's consent, to the island of Bou, the capital of the Fijiis. This, our first separation, though on many accounts painful, was prudently planned, as a vessel was rumored to be in the vicinity of Bou. We shared with the party what we could spare for their comfort; and they, after exchanging with us farewells and cheers of mutual encouragement, started on their perilous adventure of sailing two hundred miles in a small boat, exposed to many dangers, and, not the least, attacks from savages. After the captain's departure, we began house-keeping in earnest, regarding alike frugality and comfort, aware of the uncertainty of our stay, yet not too anxious about future sustenance. The provisions saved from the wreck, the presents above mentioned from the king, and yams, 106 INTERCOURSE WITH THE NATIVES. plantains and fresh pork given to us by the natives, furnished no mean stock of food, which also, from our ambition, in turn, to excel each other in culinary tact, was not indifferently prepared. Two large iron pots or kettles were arranged outside the Boore for cooking food in pleasant weather; at other times, this work was done within. Whenever, also, any of us visited the abodes of native families, we were ever hospitably received, and on their observing the little bags of salt which we generally carried with us, (as they do not use it, ) to season our food, we heard the exclamation " he has got his salt, and...
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