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Page 67
... plantains and gourds . It has no forest tract , but there are some patches of scrub : water is also lacking , and they get what they have from wells they make on the sea - beaches . The writer had doubtless been at Manila , where the ...
... plantains and gourds . It has no forest tract , but there are some patches of scrub : water is also lacking , and they get what they have from wells they make on the sea - beaches . The writer had doubtless been at Manila , where the ...
Page 83
... plan- tains , coco - nuts , and other things on board with the same object . The diet on which these Islanders customarily support themselves consists of plantains , coco - nuts , fish , and a mash composed of yams , plantains and other ...
... plan- tains , coco - nuts , and other things on board with the same object . The diet on which these Islanders customarily support themselves consists of plantains , coco - nuts , fish , and a mash composed of yams , plantains and other ...
Page 192
... plantains , and uru are plentiful . There is a reef within which is a capacious roadstead with good bottom . It is not inhabited because , they say , it is subject to whirl- winds which swamp canoes . It was sighted by us . Oahine ...
... plantains , and uru are plentiful . There is a reef within which is a capacious roadstead with good bottom . It is not inhabited because , they say , it is subject to whirl- winds which swamp canoes . It was sighted by us . Oahine ...
Contents
List of PLATES and CHARTS | xii |
LETTER from DR COMMERSON of the Boudeuse | xvi |
2128 | xviii |
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