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Examples
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And we kept him on board issuing proclamations all the time we were in Poonga-Poonga.
Chapter 18 2010
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And we kept him on board issuing proclamations all the time we were in Poonga-Poonga.
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It struck me that her gammon was reasonable enough, and I agreed to pull out for Berande right O, and get your orders to go along to Poonga-Poonga.
Chapter 17 2010
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"That fella boy he sick, belly belong him walk about," Binu Charley said, pointing to the Poonga-Poonga man whose shoulder had been scratched by the arrow an hour before.
Chapter 24 2010
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For the instant he entertained the rash thought of calling his boat's-crew and starting immediately in a whale-boat for Poonga-Poonga.
Chapter 17 2010
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Even then she was on the wild coast of Malaita, and at Poonga-Poonga, of all villainous and dangerous portions the worst, peopled with a teeming population of head-hunters, robbers, and murderers.
Chapter 17 2010
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The Poonga-Poonga men, on the contrary, were not awed.
Chapter 24 2010
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Then I took it on an empty stomach, too, and there was them three soaks setting me an example, they arguing for me to take the Flibberty to Poonga-Poonga, an 'me pointing out my duty to the contrary.
Chapter 17 2010
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Sometimes he was compelled to leave the trail and creep and climb through the jungle so as to approach the man-traps from behind; and on one occasion, in spite of his precaution, a spring-bow was discharged, the flying arrow barely clipping the shoulder of one of the waiting Poonga-Poonga boys.
Chapter 24 2010
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Binu Charley had dropped behind for a time, and Koogoo, the Poonga - Poonga man who had boasted that he would eat the bushmen, was in the lead.
Chapter 24 2010
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