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...of Doctor Dolittle (1920), the first of Hugh Lofting's Doctor Dolittle books, we are introduced to the good doctor who gives up treating people after Polynesia, his parrot, teaches him animal languages. His fame in the animal kingdom spreads throughout the world and soon he sets off to cure a monkey epidemic in Africa, finding all sorts of exciting adventures on the way. T...

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...ti, earlier and more full accounts were given, than of any other island in Polynesia; and this is the reason why it still retains so strong a hold on ... ...tives inveighing against the French (no favourites, by the bye, throughout Polynesia), and bitterly regretting that the queen had not, at the outset, ... ...oughly disliked, through- out all the Protestant missionary settlements in Polynesia. In early youth, he had been sent to a religious seminary in Fran... ... Father Murphy. His health again! And many jolly proselytes may he make in Polynesia! CHAPTER XXXVIII. LITTLE JULIA SAILS WITHOUT US TO MAKE GOOD the ... ... 131 Melville CHAPTER XXXIX. JERMIN SERVES US A GOOD TURN— FRIENDSHIPS IN POLYNESIA THE SHIP out of the way, we were quite anxious to know what was g... ...tom, and do our slightest bidding. The really curious way in which all the Polynesians are in the habit of making bosom friends at the shortest possib... ...led with love and admiration for the first whites who came among them, the Polynesians could not testify the warmth of their emotions more strongly th... ...he water. To obviate a certain rolling propensity, the Tahitians, like all Polynesians, attach to them what sailors call an “outrigger.” It consists o... ...sland; recommending him as one of the best getters up of fine linen in all Polynesia. At this time, Arheetoo had known me but two hours; and, 143 Mel...

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...from end to end with Marquesans: three brown- skinned generations, squatted cross-legged upon the floor, and regarding me in silence with embarrassing... ... experience of the islands, I had never again so menacing a reception; were I to meet with such to-day, I should be more alarmed and tenfold more surp... ..., and one, at least, was to mourn sincerely our departure. CHAPTER II—MAKING FRIENDS THE IMPEDIMENT OF TONGUES was one that I particularly over- estim... ...h elegance. And they are extremely similar, so that a person who has a tincture of one or two may risk, not without hope, an attempt upon the others. ... ...English, and in the French zone (though far less commonly) a little French-English, or an efficient pidgin, what is called to the westward ‘Beach-la-M... ... natural fine manners, and a touchy punc- tilio, are common to both races: common to both tongues the trick of dropping medial consonants. Here is a t... ... Ha’e Kaoha The elision of medial consonants, so marked in these Marquesan instances, is no less common both in Gaelic and the Lowland Scots. Stranger... ... if such a population could be isolated, and this mispronunciation should become the rule, it might prove the first stage of transition from T to K, w... ...e ten- dency of the Marquesans, however, is to urge against con- sonants, or at least on the very common letter L, a war of mere extermination. A hiat...

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...f a land of despotism. An elaborate courtliness marks the race alone among Polynesians; terms of ceremony fly thick as oaths on board a ship; commoner... ...ayest, though by far from either the most capable or the most beautiful of Polynesians. Fine dress is a passion, and makes a Samoan festival a thing o... ...ent to the losses of one’s neighbour. But the particu- lar drawback of the Polynesian system is to depress and stag- ger industry. T o work more is th... ...urers began to swarm about the isles of the Pacific. The seven sleepers of Polynesia stand, still but half aroused, in the midst of the century of com... ...side from life and from his family in dreadful isolation. These ideas most Polynesians have accepted in appearance, as they accept other ideas of the ... ...site.” And the ladies would be welcome. This is to take the most savage of Polynesians; take some of the most civilised. In Honolulu, convicts labour ... ...as filled with visionary schemes for the protection and development of the Polynesian race: Gibson fell in step with him; it is even thought he may ha... ...and by the advances of a private citizen. And they returned from dreams of Polynesian independence to find their own city in the hands of a clique of ... ...ld scarce affect the composure of the courts of Europe. But in the eyes of Polynesians the little kingdom occupies a place apart. It is there alone th...

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...es at the corners of two little eyes. There was no such beard from here to Polynesia, where a beard is a valuable property in itself. Bamtz’s beard wa... ...g to roll cigarettes on his knee with his stumps, telling endless yarns of Polynesia and whining and cursing in turn about ‘Mon Malheur.’ His hands ha...

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...hari- 4 Typee tably pass over his shortcomings in this particular. In the Polynesian words used in this volume,—except in those cases where the spell... ...ence among the Natives of a Valley of the Marquesas Islands; or, a Peep at Polynesian Life,’ or, more briefly, ‘Melville’s Marquesas Islands.’ It was ... ...has been such as to intimidate the boldest of their number. Ellis, in his ‘Polynesian Researches’, gives some interesting accounts of the abortive att... ...hout fear of contradictions that in all the cases of outrages committed by Polynesians, Euro- peans have at some time or other been the aggressors, an... ...ere remark by the way— what I subsequently gleamed—that all the islands of Polynesia enjoy the reputation, in common with the Hibernian isle, of being... ...ure; and in this indeed con- sists, I believe, the peculiar charm of every Polynesian land- scape. Everywhere below me, from the base of the precipice... ...nd to provide for his starving offspring that food which the children of a Polynesian father, without troubling their parents, pluck from the branches... ... was fain to confess that, despite the disadvantages of his condition, the Polynesian savage, surrounded by all the luxurious provisions of nature, en... ...ght have entitled him to the distinction of standing for the statue of the Polynesian Apollo; and indeed the oval of his countenance and the regu- lar...

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... such certainty, in which the heliolithic peoples believed from Avebury to Polynesia? Not always have we had to go alone and unprepared into un- chart...

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...stick to the mountains now until I am old, and then I shall sail a boat in Polynesia. That is what so many old men do. Only last year one of the great... ...m, was to Europeanise the world, to extend the fran- chise to negroes, put Polynesians into trousers, and train the teeming myriads of India to apprec... ...us diseases to which you yourselves are immune, as the missionaries do the Polynesians; you may resort to honest simple murder, as we English did with...

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...ry came, and I began to teach him decimals; you wouldn’t think I knew them myself after so long desuetude! I could not but wonder how Henry stands his... ...ter. Folau had never heard of the offence, and begged to know what was the punishment; there may be lively times in forgery ahead. It seems the sort o... ...ere a Sa- moan had written a word on a board, and there was an A, perfectly formed, but upside down. You never saw such a thing in Europe; but it is a...

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...ment-room, and then wandered through the galleries up-stairs, crowded with Polynesian idols and Polynesian danc- ing-garments, and all the simple immo... ...ian danc- ing-garments, and all the simple immodest accessories to life in Polynesia, to a seat among the mummies. She was trying to bring her problem...

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...p luckily drop- ping an anchor in their waters. The uncounted isles of all Polynesia confess the same truth, and do commercial homage to the whale- sh... ...whaleman, the Town-Ho,* was encoun- tered. She was manned almost wholly by Polynesians. In the short gam that ensued she gave us strong news of Moby D... ... climes. They contain round archipela- goes of romantic isles, even as the Polynesian waters do; in large part, are shored by two great contrasting na... ...s were dancing with the olive-hued girls who had eloped with them from the Polynesian Isles; while suspended in an ornamented boat, firmly secured alo...

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...r. Deep peace brooded over Europe, Asia, Africa, America, Australasia, and Polynesia. The Powers dealt together more or less honestly; banks paid thei... ...ce continued to brood over Europe, Asia, Africa, America, Australasia, and Polynesia. 106 Rudyard Kipling * * * It was the firing that did it...

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...ain, Within me zones, seas, cataracts, forests, volcanoes, groups, Malaysia, Polynesia, and the great West Indian islands. 3 What do you hear Wal... ...ession. Geography, the world, is in it, The Great Sea, the brood of islands, Polynesia, the coast beyond, The coast you henceforth are facing—you Libe...

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...n after gen- eration. Such instances as the terrible ravages of measles in Polynesia and the ruin worked by fire-water among the Red Indians, he gives... ...rious inquirer seek an account of the Tasmanian, or the Australian, or the Polynesian before “sophistication” came. The very existence and nature of m...

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...nd on one’s previously acquired ideas. My notions were drawn from Ellis’s “Polynesian Researches” — an admirable and most interesting work, but natura... ... to pursue the aboriginal. We may look to the wide extent of the Americas, Polynesia, the Cape of Good Hope, and Australia, and we find the same resul... ...me result. Nor is it the white man alone that thus acts the destroyer; the Polynesian of Malay extrac- tion has in parts of the East Indian archipelag...