قراءة كتاب In the Track of the Trades The Account of a Fourteen Thousand Mile Yachting Cruise to the Hawaiis, Marquesas, Societies, Samoas and Fijis
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In the Track of the Trades The Account of a Fourteen Thousand Mile Yachting Cruise to the Hawaiis, Marquesas, Societies, Samoas and Fijis
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Faa-oo-pea, chieftainess of Pago Pago, making kava
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Seuka, taupo of Pago Pago, illustrating a movement in the Siva
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A Samoan house in the course of construction
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"Chief Tufeli came over for the express purpose of buying
the yacht"
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"Chief Mauga squared away to face the bowling of Chief Malatoba"
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To-a, who made the best score for Pago Pago, facing the bowler
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"Whirling and yelling like dervishes they made a circuit of the
ground"
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"A sinewy brown figure starts clambering up the tree"
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Lurline at anchor in Bay of Apia, Samoa
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"The London Missionary Society steamer, John Williams, lay
near us"
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Maid of honour to the Taupo of Apia
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The sitting Sivas are essentially dances of the arms
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"Never were seen such arms as in Samoa"
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Fanua, who danced the swimming Siva by the light of the phosphorescent
waves
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Forty years ago the Fijis were in a complete state of savagery
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A Fijian head hunting canoe
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"Lurline's cutter finished a poor second"
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"Thakambau's great war canoe, over a hundred feet in length,
formerly launched over human bodies"
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Weaving the walls of a Fijian house
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Interior of a Fijian house, showing how it is bound together
with coco fibre
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Untying a reef in the mainsail
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IN THE TRACKS OF THE TRADES
CHAPTER I
SAN PEDRO TO HILO AND HONOLULU
The Weather Bureau, which for several weeks had been issuing bulletins of the "Possibly Showers" order, came out unequivocally with "Rain" on the morning of February 4th, and this, no less than the lead-coloured curtain that veiled the Sierra Madres and the windy shimmers in the tails of the clouds that went rushing across the zenith before the gushing east wind, made it plain that the elements, not to be outdone by our amiable friends, were getting together for a special demonstration on their own account in honour of Lurline's departure. The nature of this elemental