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Examples
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An excursion to Gaua was a failure, owing to bad weather.
Two Years with the Natives in the Western Pacific Felix Speiser 1914
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After two days it cleared up a little; I went ashore at the west point of Gaua, where the launch was to pick me up again two days later, as I meant to visit the interior while the others went to buy coprah.
Two Years with the Natives in the Western Pacific Felix Speiser 1914
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Representations of the whole body are frequent, so are female statues; these I have only found again in Gaua, where they are probably modern inventions.
Two Years with the Natives in the Western Pacific Felix Speiser 1914
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The storm became such that we had to lie at anchor for five days, sheltered by the coast of Gaua.
Two Years with the Natives in the Western Pacific Felix Speiser 1914
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At Gaua they kill pigs and hang up the carcases or parts of them at the grave.
The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead, Volume I (of 3) The Belief Among the Aborigines of Australia, the Torres Straits Islands, New Guinea and Melanesia James George Frazer 1897
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At Gaua, in Santa Maria, the body was dried over slow fires for ten days or more, till nothing but skin and bones remained; and the women who watched over it during these days drank the juices of putrefaction which dripped from the decaying flesh.
The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead, Volume I (of 3) The Belief Among the Aborigines of Australia, the Torres Straits Islands, New Guinea and Melanesia James George Frazer 1897
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One of them, for example, is a rock on the mountain at Mota, others are at volcanic vents which belch flames on the burning hill of Garat over the lake at Gaua, and another is on the great mountain of Vanua Lava.
The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead, Volume I (of 3) The Belief Among the Aborigines of Australia, the Torres Straits Islands, New Guinea and Melanesia James George Frazer 1897
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The picturesque Gaua volcano, which has erupted 13 times since 1963 and has been exploding and rumbling for several months, is under close watch after a marked rise in activity in recent days.
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In November, about 400 people were moved from the west of Gaua island after the volcano showered their villages with ash and sulphur.
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The picturesque Gaua volcano, which has erupted 13 times since 1963 and has been exploding and rumbling for several months, is under close watch after a marked rise in activity in recent days.
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