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单词 Fiji Islands
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For example, in 1808 a British sailor named Charlie Savage equipped with muskets and excellent aim arrived in the Fiji Islands. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z
Singh, born in the Fiji Islands, immigrated to the United States as a teenager in 2003 and was proud to be an American, friends and family said. Community honors slain Newman police officer 2019-01-05T05:00:00Z
He flew from Peoria to Los Angeles to a small airport in the Fiji Islands. EXCHANGE: World War II raider from returns to Guadalcanal 2017-08-22T04:00:00Z
We bounced back and forth between there and Washington, D.C., and then overseas in both the Fiji Islands and in Italy. Cindy Whitehead: No Nickname? Just Leave That to Me 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z
You will find that island, deep in the Mamanuca archipelago in the outer reaches of the Fiji Islands. TRAVEL FIJI: Comfortably marooned on Tom Hanks’ ‘Castaway’ island in Fiji 2014-12-12T05:00:00Z
“Still,” you say, “you are forgetting Ceylon, the Fiji Islands, the Falklands, and the Mauritius.” West African studies 2012-02-15T03:00:28.537Z
The Fiji Islands Voyaging Society, a nonprofit group that focuses on reviving traditional culture and on environmental education, is working on programs teaching children how to navigate by the stars as their ancestors did. Looking Forward, Fiji Turns to Its Canoeing Past 2012-02-03T17:39:25Z
The Americans were among the first colonists who came to the Fiji Islands with the missionaries. What Shall We Do? 2012-01-29T03:00:11.167Z
In the south seas, Salem ships first visited the Fiji Islands; they first opened up to our commerce New Holland and New Zealand. Recollections and Impressions 1822-1890 2011-10-15T02:00:25.820Z
It treats of the language of the Fiji Islands, New Hebrides, Loyalty Islands, New Caledonia, &c., and shows their radical affinity with the Polynesian class. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 4 "G" to "Gaskell, Elizabeth" 2011-08-24T02:00:20.690Z
At two, if not three, of the Fijian group, we were to ship copra and sugar; and report had said that the Fiji Islands were more lovely than the Samoan. Stevenson's Shrine The Record of a Pilgrimage 2011-07-18T02:00:23.520Z
“If he’s a fair specimen of my father’s tenants, we shall feel as if we had dropped down on the Fiji Islands.” The Haunted Room A Tale 2011-03-10T03:00:46.157Z
The women on the Fiji Islands had scarcely ever worked in the fields, so that in the absence of the men, all the local farming was neglected and went to ruin. What Shall We Do? 2012-01-29T03:00:11.167Z
The Adams ran a Bible ministry and have been distributing Bibles to schools and churches in remote villages in areas including the Fiji Islands, Alaska, New Zealand, Central America and French Polynesia. Pirates reach Somalia shore with Danish hostages 2011-03-02T13:31:00Z
You know best that in Honolulu upon such matters people think quite differently from what they do in the Fiji Islands, or even in Japan, where they simply rip up their own persons. Withered Leaves. Vol. III.(of III) A Novel 2011-02-25T03:01:13.983Z
Suva, being the capital of the Fiji Islands, is quite an imposing little place. Stevenson's Shrine The Record of a Pilgrimage 2011-07-18T02:00:23.520Z
The inhabitants of the Fiji Islands look upon it as the only proper method to dispose of a captured foe. Told by the Death's Head A Romantic Tale 2010-12-30T03:00:21.423Z
In “The Literary Miscellany” there is an article by Professor Yanjoul in which he describes the recent history of the Fiji Islands. What Shall We Do? 2012-01-29T03:00:11.167Z
For nearly two years thereafter, Galsworthy traveled, visiting among other places, Russia, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the Fiji Islands, and South Africa. One-Act Plays By Modern Authors
A friend of mine visited the Fiji Islands in 1844, and what do you suppose an infidel was worth there then? Weighed and Wanting Addresses on the Ten Commandments
The Fiji Islands were long known as the home of cannibals, and their turning toward civilization makes an interesting study. The Complete Club Book for Women Including Subjects, Material and References for Study Programs; together with a Constitution and By-Laws; Rules of Order; Instructions how to make a Year Book; Suggestions for Practical Community Work; a Resume of what Some Clubs are Doing, etc., etc.
The Alaska Indians, the denizens of "Darkest Africa," the Maoris of New Zealand, and the cannibal tribes of the Fiji Islands, all yield more or less to this instinct. The Pearl of India
As I have already said, there still exists on the Fiji Islands a natural economy and a trade by barter. What Shall We Do? 2012-01-29T03:00:11.167Z
Whale oil from the Arctic, iron from the Baltic, tortoise shell from the Fiji Islands. The Harbor
I don’t want to make any excuses, but, true as you’re living, if I turned in at ten I might just as well set up business in the Fiji Islands. The Wall Street Girl
Contingents were also sent from Ceylon, the Fiji Islands, and other outlying parts of the empire. The Story of the Great War, Volume IV (of 8) Champagne, Artois, Grodno; Fall of Nish; Caucasus; Mesopotamia; Development of Air Strategy; United States and the War
Through wandering underground mazes, from some cave mouth in the Fiji Islands to the north? Astounding Stories of Super-Science September 1930
As soon as it is taken by the force of guns, the same thing must inevitably take place which occurred on the Fiji Islands, and has always and everywhere repeated itself. What Shall We Do? 2012-01-29T03:00:11.167Z
On the other hand, the Fiji Islands have Anopheles but no malaria. Insects and Diseases A Popular Account of the Way in Which Insects may Spread or Cause some of our Common Diseases
Government Country name:   conventional long form: Republic of the Fiji Islands   conventional short form: Fiji Data code: FJ Government type: republic note: military coup leader Maj. The 1999 CIA World Factbook
Fiji Government Country name: conventional long form: Republic of the Fiji Islands conventional short form: Fiji Government type: republic note: military coup leader Maj. The 2001 CIA World Factbook
That's a delightful little dimple in the Kermadec Trough, which," Stanley explained, "is north-northeast of New Zealand almost halfway up to the Fiji Islands. Astounding Stories of Super-Science September 1930
About May 7 they passed what the captain supposed must be the Fiji Islands, and two large canoes put off and followed them for some time, but in the afternoon they gave up the chase. The Red True Story Book
We attended the evening worship, which consisted of a torchlight procession of priests, with beating of tom-toms and frenzied dancing of musicians, which would have done credit to the savagery of the Fiji Islands. A Tour of the Missions Observations and Conclusions
There is a story told in the Fiji Islands which so nearly approaches the Hottentot legend of the hare, that they both seem but variations of a common original. Moon Lore
Fiji Islands are among the most important British possessions. Commercial Geography A Book for High Schools, Commercial Courses, and Business Colleges
The Wesleyans have since then laboured exclusively, and with most encouraging success, in the Friendly and Fiji Islands and New Zealand, leaving to the London Missionary Society the wide scope of the Pacific. Captain Cook His Life, Voyages, and Discoveries
On the Fiji Islands a wife was strangled on her husband's grave and buried with him. Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals
Go to the Fiji Islands; get yourself wrecked among them. Sunk at Sea
He replied that he had no doubt, from the appearance and conduct of the savages, that we had been wrecked on one of the outlying Fiji Islands. A Voyage round the World A book for boys
Yes, crickets are cannibals, like some other insects, and they frequently eat a near relation or a friend, as the people in the Fiji Islands used to do. Little Busybodies The Life of Crickets, Ants, Bees, Beetles, and Other Busybodies
Fiji Islands.—These possess only one soap factory, the output from which is 9 cwt. daily. The Handbook of Soap Manufacture
He would advise any of them who may visit the new British possession of the Fiji Islands, should they fall in with one of the monsters, not to attempt a similar exploit. The South Sea Whaler
We left New Caledonia and the Loyalty Islands on our port side, then steered to the north between the New Hebrides and the Fiji Islands, at neither of which my brother wished to touch. The Cruise of the Dainty Rovings in the Pacific
The inhabitants of the Fiji Islands use a similar pillow for the same object of preventing their elaborately-dressed hair from being disarranged. In the Eastern Seas
In Europe, it is my duty to honor my father and mother; in the Fiji Islands it would be criminal for me not to put them to death at the proper moment. The Argonauts
The second Sunday in Advent he discussed 'The Position of Woman in the Fiji Islands.' The Patient Observer And His Friends
"And I suppose he said that he had captained Oxford, Cambridge, New Zealand and the Fiji Islands, and that in his whole career he had never seen anything like it." The Loom of Youth
Fancy being shipwrecked off the Fiji Islands, and discarded by cannibals as a tough subject, while your companions are literally killed with attention! The Wit and Humor of America, Volume II. (of X.)
Whether the "Ocean Queen" arrived at the Fiji Islands was never known. Five Years in New Zealand 1859 to 1864
"Whether I go to Congress or the Fiji Islands may depend, eventually, upon Judge Bascom's liver." Flower of the Dusk
The worship of trees and groves is universal: peculiar trees, groves, and woods are worshipped in Tahiti, in the Fiji Islands, and throughout Polynesia; in barbarous Asia, in Europe, America, and the whole of Africa. Myth and Science An Essay
There was as much ignorance about the Russians, their Government, their country, as there was about the Fiji Islands. T. De Witt Talmage As I Knew Him
Ndengei, the supreme deity of the Fiji Islands, the laziest of all the gods, has the serpent for his effigy. Painted Windows Studies in Religious Personality
On my arrival at Christchurch an offer was made to me to join an expedition to the Fiji Islands, just then creating some interest as a possible place for colonists. Five Years in New Zealand 1859 to 1864
They were of the same construction as those of the Friendly Islands, and the land seen for the last two days was supposed to be the Fiji Islands. The Eventful History of the Mutiny and Piratical Seizure of H.M.S. Bounty: Its Cause and Consequences
In the Fiji Islands, where a wife was strangled on her husband's grave, the strangled women were called "the carpeting of the grave." Taboo and Genetics A Study of the Biological, Sociological and Psychological Foundation of the Family
At the Fiji Islands, on the contrary, in the neighbourhood of the Tonga group, the men are not tattooed, but the women are. John Rutherford, the White Chief
Both early remains and recent hooks from the Fiji Islands bear out this supposition. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1
They are of fine physique, tall and robust, and are said to belong to the Polynesian type, probably having come over from the Fiji Islands, or some of the Pacific group, in their canoes. Five Years in New Zealand 1859 to 1864
It is also a strange and significant fact that amongst the Zulus, and the inhabitants of the Fiji Islands, there are similar legends of the story of "Jack and the Beanstalk." A History of Pantomime
How they are employed in Australia, New Zealand, Fiji Islands, South America, etc., by the primitive tribes. Clairvoyance and Occult Powers
There are even a thousand miles of its wire in Abyssinia and one hundred and fifty miles in the Fiji Islands. The History of the Telephone
He spoke of directing researches to the Fiji Islands and the South Pacific. The Life of Captain Matthew Flinders
On the Fiji Islands, a woman does not talk to her mother-in-law, and among the Sioux, a young man does not talk at all unless someone else addresses him. Book of Etiquette, Volume 2
He traveled for a large part of two years, visiting, among other places, Russia, Canada, Australia, South Africa, and the Fiji Islands. Halleck's New English Literature
"The tribes in the Fiji Islands believe man-eating an ordinance of the gods!" The Iron Game A Tale of the War
About May 7, they passed what the captain supposed must be the Fiji Islands, and two large canoes put off and followed them for some time, but in the afternoon they gave up the chase. The Junior Classics — Volume 7 Stories of Courage and Heroism
Wickedness is a curious thing: it takes different shapes in different lands, and what is called 'wicked' here, is virtue in, let us say, the Fiji Islands. Ziska
In 1813 the East India Company's ship HUNTER, voyaging from Calcutta to Sydney, called at the Fiji Islands. Laperouse
Then we raised the Fiji Islands, where savages slaughtered sailors from the Union, as well as Captain Bureau, commander of the Darling Josephine out of Nantes, France. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
On the other hand, "a broad, well-rounded occiput is considered a great beauty" by the natives of the Fiji Islands. The Descent of Man
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