Quotes related to Polynesians

attractive. Charles Darwin The Voyage of the Beagle (1835) Before the Polynesians first set foot here in the thirteenth century, at least eleven species

committed massacres regularly. The dyaks of Borneo were headhunters. The Polynesians, living in an environment as close to paradise as one can imagine, fought

Khmers and other tribes of India-China, in the countries of the Malaya-Polynesians, in Indonesia and Malay, India left the indelible impress of her high

Egypt and the "dog days" of summer for the ancient Greeks, while to the Polynesians, mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, the star marked winter and was an

Māori is a language spoken by the native polynesian people in New Zealand. Kaore te kumara e korero mo tona ake reka. Direct English translation: The sweet

different way from that in which we think about late eighteenth-century Polynesian uses of taboo? Alasdair MacIntyre. After Virtue (1981), p. 113. The pornographic

Nick: Well, what do we know? It was first sighted off of the French Polynesian Pacific, right? That area has been exposed to dozens of nuclear tests

cannot conceal problems forever. Schultz, South Pacific. Institute of Pacific Studies (1980). Samoan proverbial expressions. Polynesian Press. p. 34. 

the southeastern Pacific Ocean, at the southeasternmost point of the Polynesian Triangle in Oceania. The island is most famous for its nearly 1,000 extant

find when we sail out among the stars, but like the Norsemen and the Polynesians of old, lured by the very challenge of the unknown. Rachel Carson Speech