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Title: Samoa, A Hundred Years Ago And Long Before
Author: George Turner
Release Date: December 1, 2004 [EBook #14224]
Language: English
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SAMOA
A HUNDRED YEARS AGO
AND LONG BEFORE.
BY
GEORGE TURNER, LL.D.
OF THE LONDON MISSIONARY SOCIETY.
FIRST PRINTED
LONDON 1884
Reprinted by
Institute of Pacific Studies
University of the South Pacific
1984
[Illustration: _Samoa_ London: Macmillan & Co.]
[Illustration: SAMOAN MAN IN COSTUME OF THE PAST.]
CONTENTS
CHAPTER I.
POSITION OF THE ISLANDS--EARLY VISITORS AND
TRADITIONARY ORIGIN
CHAPTER II.
SAMOA--ORIGIN OF THE NAME
CHAPTER III.
A FUTURE STATE--RELIGION, ETC.
CHAPTER IV.
GODS SUPERIOR--WAR AND GENERAL VILLAGE GODS
CHAPTER V.
GODS INFERIOR, OR HOUSEHOLD GODS
CHAPTER VI.
THE PEOPLE--INFANCY AND CHILDHOOD
CHAPTER VII.
ADULT AND ADVANCED YEARS
CHAPTER VIII.
FOOD--COOKING--LIQUORS
CHAPTER IX.
CLOTHING
CHAPTER X.
AMUSEMENTS
CHAPTER XI.
MORTALITY, LONGEVITY, DISEASES, ETC.
CHAPTER XII.
DEATH AND BURIAL
CHAPTER XIII.
HOUSES
CHAPTER XIV.
CANOES
CHAPTER XV.
ARTICLES OF MANUFACTURE
CHAPTER XVI.
GOVERNMENT AND LAWS
CHAPTER XVII.
WARS
CHAPTER XVIII.
THE HEAVENS, AND THE HEAVENLY BODIES
CHAPTER XIX.
THE ORIGIN OF FIRE, AND OTHER STORIES
CHAPTER XX.
NAMES OF THE ISLANDS--ILLUSTRATING MIGRATIONS, ETC.
CHAPTER XXI.
POLITICAL DIVISIONS AND PLACES OF NOTE ON UPOLU
CHAPTER XXII.
POLITICAL DIVISIONS AND PLACES OF NOTE ON SAVAII
CHAPTER I.
POSITION OF THE ISLANDS--EARLY VISITORS AND TRADITIONARY ORIGIN.
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