What is "tahitian"

Usage examples of "tahitian".

Those tribes having for their customs the practice of compound major mutilations are the Fiji Islanders, Sandwich Islanders, Tahitians, Tongans, Samoans, Javanese, Sumatrans, natives of Malagasy, Hottentots, Damaras, Bechuanas, Kaffirs, the Congo people, the Coast Negroes, Inland Negroes, Dahomeans, Ashantees, Fulahs, Abyssinians, Arabs, and Dakotas.

I shall begin not at the faraway beginning of everything, among the Trobrianders, for example, or the Tahitians, but rather at the beginning of our own current phase of civilization -- in the middle years, that is to say, of the nineteenth century.

He interviewed the Tahitian voyagers, who told him that the canoemen of Anaa and the other nearer islands of the Tuamotu Group, 170 to 230 miles east of the Tahitian islands, exchanged visits with them.

Bougainville himself had just come through the Tuamotu Group stretching over a distance of more than 700 miles, and had heard from his informant of the western sector of the Tahitian islands.

He mentions that on one expedition the famous Captain Cook had onboard a Tahitian named Tupaia who, apart from being the island chief, was also a navigator priest.

Among several men whose early deaths are much to be lamented as a loss to scholarship, was Tupaia, a Tahitian priest and navigator who had joined the expedition as a refugee from the political disturbances of his homeland.

One of our two Japanese and both our Tahitians funked and had to be slapped on the back and cheered up and dragged along by main strength toward life.

Native states whose formation from chiefdoms happened to be witnessed by Europeans in the 18th and 19th centuries include the Polynesian Hawaiian state, the Polynesian Tahitian state, the Merina state of Madagascar, Lesotho and Swazi and other southern African states besides that of the Zulus, the Ashanti state of West Africa, and the Ankole and Buganda states of Uganda.

Their servants then anointed them with monoi -- coconut oil, perfumed with the petals of the Tahitian gardenia.

It took Mike a moment to work out her meaning, slightly because of the shifted glottal stop, more because of the mixture of Tahitian and Samoan, more still because he had not expected such language from the captain, and perhaps mostly because he himself was probably the only person now on Kainui who had ever actually seen a shark and might be expected to mention its entrails as a curse.

And she danced in the Kipuka Club, bringing to its small stage the incandescent sensual yearnings that Tahitian dances expressed so vividly.

The women from this bush of hair look forth enticingly: the race cannot be compared with the Tahitian for female beauty.

What we must remember is that a group of learned English scientists transliterated the Tahitian language and set it into western ways, while a body of not so well-trained American missionaries did the same job for Hawaiian.

Standing at the head of the open grave, in a white coat and blue pariu, his Tahitian Bible in his hand and one eye bound with a red handkerchief, he read solemnly that chapter in Job which has been read and heard over the bones of so many of our fathers, and with a good voice offered up two prayers.

Klebsiclla, Bruniere's disease, Dentritic mycosis, Tahitian tick fever—.