The Atoll of Funafuti, Ellice Group: Its Zoology, Botany, Ethnology, and General Structure : Based on Collections Made by Mr. Charles Hedley, of the Australian Museum, Sydney, N.S.W., Parts 1-2 |
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Page 37 - ... off the colour of our skins. Mark how the uncultivated spectators are profuse of their applause! — But now the dance is over: let us remain here to-night, and feast and be cheerful, and to-morrow we will depart for the Mooa.
Page 281 - The short strings so produced are "amo," two of which are laid together, one projecting half its length beyond the other, and these are rolled together as before. A third string is applied to the second, so that one end lies in a fork between the end of the first and the middle of the second, while the other end projects by half its length beyond the end of the second, and the whole is again rubbed. By the similar addition of amo strings the strand continuously grows. Two such strands are again rolled...
Page 257 - ... pieces of coral, which are sufficiently rough to perform the office of a file; a hole is then bored in the middle, the drill being no other than the first stone they pick up that has a sharp corner ; this they fix into the end of a piece of bamboo, and turn it between the hands like a chocolate mill; when the shell is perforated and the hole sufficiently wide, a small file of coral is introduced, by the application of which the hook is in a short time completed, few costing the artificer more...
Page 252 - The instruments they use for this purpose, which they call hooo, are nothing more than pickets or stakes of different lengths, according to the depth they have to dig. These are flattened and sharpened to an edge at one end ; and the largest have a short piece fixed transversely, for pressing it into the ground with the foot. "With these, though they are not more than from two to four inches broad, they dig and plant ground of many acres in extent.
Page 263 - Mr. Mariner once asked Tooitonga what sort of a hook it was, and was told that it was made of tortoiseshell, strengthened by a piece of the bone of a whale : in size and shape it was just like a large albacore hook, measuring six or seven inches long, from the curve to the part where the line was attached, and an inch and a half between the barb and the stem. Mr. Mariner objected that such a hook must have been too weak for the purpose ; Oh no...
Page 52 - In describing the same rite, Turner says :* " Meat offerings were also laid on the altars, accompanied by songs and dances in honour of the god. While these ceremonies were going on all the population, except the priests and their attendants, kept out of sight.
Page 246 - Funafuti tool, which invited attention to the foregoing ; the only reference to this, known to me in literature, is more than a century old. Keate,|| writing of the Pelew Islands, remarks that, " they had also another kind of hatchet, which was formed in a manner to move round in a groove, that the edge might act longitudinally, or transversely, by which it would serve as a hatchet, or an adze, as occasion required.
Page 257 - These are made of all sizes, and used to catch various kinds of fish with great success. The manner of making them is very simple, and every fisherman is his own artificer : the shell is first cut into square pieces, by the edge of another shell, and wrought into a form corresponding with the outline of the hook by pieces of coral, which are sufficiently rough to perform the office of a file ; a hole is then bored in the middle ; the drill being no other than...
Page 55 - They do not, however, herd indiscriminately. If you peep into a Samoan house at midnight, you will see five or six low oblong tents pitched (or rather strung up) here and there throughout the house. They are made of native-cloth, five feet high, and close all round down to the mat.
Page 12 - The emerged land beyond the beach, in its earliest stage, when barely raised above the tides, appears like a vast field of ruins. Angular masses of coral rock, varying in dimensions from one to a hundred cubic feet, lie piled together in the utmost confusion ; and they are so blackened by exposure, or from incrusting lichens, as to resemble the clinkers of Mauna Loa; moreover, they ring like metal under the hammer. Such regions may be traversed by leaping from block to block, with the risk of falling...