 | Charles Samuel Stewart - 1832 - 408 страница
...except on the crown, where a bunch was closely gathered, and tied in a tight knot with a string of white tapa. His only ornaments were a pair of earrings...to give him the appearance of being clothed ; and ihough it is apparent that naturally his complexion was as fair as most of his countrymen, his whole... | |
 | Charles Samuel Stewart - 1833 - 336 страница
...A first glance at Piaroro tells him to be of high rank ; a prince by nature as well as blood. He is one of the finest looking men I ever saw: tall and...that would do grace to an Apollo. His skin is -so perferctly covered with tatau, in a variety of tasteful and symmetrical figures, as to give him the... | |
 | Samuel Otter - 1999 - 390 страница
...In Visit to the South Seas ( 1832), Charles S. Stewart describes Piaroro, a Happar chief, as being "of admirable proportions, with a general contour...polish of limb, that would do grace to an Apollo" (1 :228). In Journal of a Cruise (1815), David Porter also compares the proportions of Nukuhevan men... | |
 | Justin D. Edwards - 2001 - 218 страница
...prince: "Piaroro is a prince by nature as well as blood—one of the finest looking men I ever saw—tall and large, not very muscular, but of admirable proportions, with a general contour of figure . . . that would do grace to Apollo" (259). Echoing Stewart, Melville describes Marnoo in similar terms... | |
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Most of his hair, which is slightly gray, was shorn off, except on the crown, where a bunch was closely gathered, and tied in a tight knot with a string of white tapa. His only ornaments were a pair of earrings neatly carved from a whale's tooth. A first... 