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Title: The boy travellers in Australasia : adventures of two youths in a journey to the Sandwich, Marquesas, Society, Samoan and Feejee islands, and through the colonies of New Zealand, New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, Tasmania, and South Australia
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: Knox, Thomas Wallace, 1835-1896 Harper & Brothers. pbl
Subjects: Voyages and travels Adventure and adventurers Tutors and tutoring Friendship Sailing Sailors Animals Natural history
Publisher: New York : Harper & Brothers
Contributing Library: School of Theology, Boston University
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COAST SCENE IN A CALM. 180 THE BOY TRAVELLERS IN AUSTRALASIA. pieces at their moorings ; and the whole windward coast of the islandswas strewn with wrecks. Many foreign vessels that were known tobe in Feejee waters, or near the islands, were never heard of again, andthey doubtless went down on that terrible night. At Macuata, onYauna Levu, the wind lifted a small vessel bodily from the beach andblew it into a native village two or three hundred yards away!
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LOST IN THE HURRICANE. The story of the hurricane led to various anecdotes of the SouthSeas, and in this way the afternoon was passed until dinner-time. Oneman told how a ship on which he once sailed was driven before a hurri-cane and thrown upon a reef, where the waves dashed her to pieces.He was carried into the comparatively smooth lagoon inside the reef,and saved himself by swimming, all his companions being drowned.Fortunately for him, the islanders among whom he landed were notcannibals, or he would have been condemned at once to the oven. The A WALKING PICTURE-GALLEEY. 181 cannibals of the South Pacific have always regarded people shipwreckedon their shores as special gifts or windfalls, just as the inhabitants ofcertain parts of the coast of the United States are said to have regardedthe cargoes of wrecked ships less than a century ago. Of course he

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  • bookyear:1889
  • bookdecade:1880
  • bookcentury:1800
  • bookauthor:Knox__Thomas_Wallace__1835_1896
  • bookauthor:Harper___Brothers__pbl
  • booksubject:Voyages_and_travels
  • booksubject:Adventure_and_adventurers
  • booksubject:Tutors_and_tutoring
  • booksubject:Friendship
  • booksubject:Sailing
  • booksubject:Sailors
  • booksubject:Animals
  • booksubject:Natural_history
  • bookpublisher:New_York___Harper___Brothers
  • bookcontributor:School_of_Theology__Boston_University
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  • bookleafnumber:203
  • bookcollection:bostonuniversiyschooloftheology
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