The Monthly Visitor, and Entertaining Pocket Companion, Том 8H.D. Symonds, 1799 |
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... feet long , and pointed with the fwharra , or palm - tree . Thefe they hurl at a mark fet up at the diftance of thirty or forty yards , with great exactnefs . They hold the fpear in the right hand , and poife it over the fore - finger ...
... feet long , and pointed with the fwharra , or palm - tree . Thefe they hurl at a mark fet up at the diftance of thirty or forty yards , with great exactnefs . They hold the fpear in the right hand , and poife it over the fore - finger ...
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... feet , though nothing re- fembling our dances . The heiva is ufually performed by torch - light . The manner is exactly reprefented in Cook's Voyages . They generally dance under cover ; but , by day , before the houses , unless it ...
... feet , though nothing re- fembling our dances . The heiva is ufually performed by torch - light . The manner is exactly reprefented in Cook's Voyages . They generally dance under cover ; but , by day , before the houses , unless it ...
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... feet ; this lafts about five minutes , when they prepare to receive the ball from the other party who have ftood ftill : if they catch the ball , they return it again ; if it escape them , the other party dance in their turn . After ...
... feet ; this lafts about five minutes , when they prepare to receive the ball from the other party who have ftood ftill : if they catch the ball , they return it again ; if it escape them , the other party dance in their turn . After ...
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... feet high , which he caused to be erected in the Field of Mars , for the purpose of this obfervation . Ptolemy's aftronomy , though founded on an erroneous fyftem , ferved to give the obfervers of that age an idea of the apparent courfe ...
... feet high , which he caused to be erected in the Field of Mars , for the purpose of this obfervation . Ptolemy's aftronomy , though founded on an erroneous fyftem , ferved to give the obfervers of that age an idea of the apparent courfe ...
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... feet and white cotton caps on their heads . The womens ' drefs confifts of two pieces of cloth , each of which is about fix feet long and three broad ; one of these they wrap round the waist , which , hanging down to the ancles ...
... feet and white cotton caps on their heads . The womens ' drefs confifts of two pieces of cloth , each of which is about fix feet long and three broad ; one of these they wrap round the waist , which , hanging down to the ancles ...
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