 | Thomas Forrest - 1780 - 436 หน้า
...ftage the January- ' ' * - — - ' canoes are hauled up; and from this the boats are ready for a lanch, at any time of tide, if the Haraforas attack from...on each fide. A few yards from this fea ftage, if I may fo call it, are built, in ftill deeper water, and on ftronger pofts, houfes where only batchelors... | |
 | John Crawfurd - 1820 - 570 หน้า
...ready for a launch, at any time of tide, if the Haraforas attack from the land ; if they attack by sea, the Papuas take to the woods. The married people, unmarried women, and children, live in these large tenements, which, as I have sajd, have two doors; the one to the long narrow stage that... | |
 | Samuel Bennett - 1865 - 708 หน้า
...ready for a launch, at any time of tide, if the Haraforas attack from the land ; if thoy attack by sea, the Papuas take to the woods. The married people, unmarried women, and children, live in these large tenements, which, as I have said, have two doors ; the one to the long narrow stage that... | |
 | Charles Henry Eden - 1877 - 332 หน้า
...ready for a launch at any time of tide, if the Haraforas* attack from the land ; if they attack by sea, the Papuas take to the woods. The married people, unmarried women and children, live in these large tenements, which, as I have said, have two doors, the one to the long narrow stage that... | |
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... other on a large stage towards the sea, supported likewise by posts in rather deeper water than those that support the tenement. On this stage the canoes are hauled up ; and from this the boats are ready for a launch at any time of tide, if the Haraforas*... 