Identifier: moderntravelreco00davi (find matches)
Title: Modern travel, a record of exploration, travel
Year: 1921 (1920s)
Authors: Davidson, Norman James. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Voyages and travels
Publisher: Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott company London, Seeley, Service & co., ltd.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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ed togetherlike sheep, and demanded to know the fate of her lover.They made evasive and contradictory replies, so, finallycoming to the conclusion that she was being deceived,she opened the floodgates of her wrath and poured onthem, both women and men, a torrent of vituperationand invective which so damped the spirit of the meetingthat it was evident no business could be done so long asa Malikolo young woman holding such very advancedideas trod the deck of the Emily, The vessel cruisedabout the neighbourhood for some days, but whenever itwas known that the fighting lady was on board norecruits were obtained. She was eventually landed atMalo by her own choice, as she had chummed in witha return, a native of that island. r^ I At Valpay, where they landed the last of the returns,Rannie received a pressing invitation to join in a pig-hunt which had been arranged before the arrival of thevessel, and next morning, equipped with a rifle andshort sword-bayonet he joined the pig-hunters in the
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Malayta Spearman The spears are barbed, and are used both in throwing and thrusting. The armlets and nose ringare cut from the gigantic clamshell. Round his forehead is a string of white cowrie-shells. Thebroad belt round his waist is native shell money woven together. (J. W. Beattie, Hobart.) TREACHEROUS TRIBES OF OCEANIA 297 village. The party consisted of about fifty men and boys,some of whom had rifles, and others carried bows andarrows. Many of them were also armed with spears,made of very hard wood, having for a butt a humanthigh-bone. The majority carried a long-handledfighting tomahawk suspended from the right shoulder.A party of men and boys had gone in front to act asbeaters. After a walk of about four or five miles thechief called a halt and ordered them to spread out inextended order along the hill-side. Then he fired hisrifle as a signal to the beaters, and almost immediatelythe row started in the distance. Shots were fired,drums were beaten, and conch shells blown; andho

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