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P.T. Barnum hoax The ___ Mermaid (from the old spelling of a Pacific island)
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feejee
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Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Feejee \Fee"jee\, a. & n. (Ethnol.) See Fijian .
Usage examples of feejee.
He had Nelson question Eefow at length about Feejee, and was told the group comprised a vast number of islands, the nearest of which lay about a two days' sail from Tofoa.
The moon was at the full, and it was rising directly behind the Feejee canoe, throwing into relief the black figures of the savages, some sculling with furious efforts, others prancing about on her deck as they shouted like a pack of devils.
Two members of the Expedition had been killed by those Feejee Islanders.
Was it worse to capture a Feejee chief and let him die in a strange land than to tear an Esquimau woman from her home and exhibit her to curious strangers?
Newbright had occasion to correspond with the Countess of Southdown about the Warmingpan Fund for the Feejee Islanders (for the management of which admirable charity both these ladies formed part of a female committee), and having mentioned her “sweet friend,” Mrs.