Category: Archaeology & Anthropology
The Polynesians are the tall brown race of men who inhabit the widely scattered islands of the Pacific, from Hawaii on the north to New Zealand on the south, and from Tonga on the west to Easter Island on the east.[1] Down to the eighteenth century they remained practically un...
The Society Islands are a large and scattered archipelago in the South Pacific, situated within 16 deg. and 18 deg. of South latitude, and between 148 deg. and 155 deg. of West...
9. CHAPTER VIIThe Sandwich or Hawaiian Islands form an archipelago lying in the North Pacific Ocean just within the northern tropic. They stretch in a direction from north-west to south-east...
5. CHAPTER IIIAbout three hundred and fifty or four hundred miles nearly due north of Tonga lies Samoa, a group of islands situated between 13 deg. 30' and 14 deg. 30' South latitude and betw...
2. CHAPTER IIThe Tonga or Friendly Islands form an archipelago of about a hundred small islands situated in the South Pacific, between 18 deg. and 22 deg. South latitude and between 173 deg....
1. CHAPTER IThe Polynesians are the tall brown race of men who inhabit the widely scattered islands of the Pacific, from Hawaii on the north to New Zealand on the south, and from Tonga on t...
8. CHAPTER VIThe Marquesas are an archipelago of eleven or twelve chief islands in the South Pacific, situated about nine hundred miles to the north-east of Tahiti. They fall into two groups...
4. i. 466; and as to the significance of the word in its various[163] Captain James Cook, _Voyages_, i. 157 _sqq._; J. R. Forster, _Observations made during a Voyage round the World_ (London, 1788), pp. 543 _sqq._; Captain James Wilson, _Mis...
6. CHAPTER IVThe Hervey or Cook Archipelago is a scattered group of nine small islands situated in the South Pacific about seven hundred miles south-east of Samoa. The islands are either vol...
3. ii. 76) that the family name of the Tooitonga was Fatafehi,which seems to be only another way of spelling Futtaf[=a]ihe, the form adopted by the missionaries. Captain Cook similarly gives Futtaf[=a]ihe as the family name of the sacred k...
10. Part I. THE MAGIC ART AND THE EVOLUTION OF KINGS. Two volumes._TIMES_.--"The book is a great book, in just the sense in which the work of Darwin, Zola, or Balzac is great. It has explored and mapped out a new world. But it combines artistr...