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Besides the children to be educated, the Otaheitan women were to be converted; and as the example of the parents had a powerful influence over their children, he resolved to make them his first care.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 17, No. 492, June 4, 1831 Various
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The Otaheitan, or the Bourbon cane, has been brought from Cayenne to
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To ease his Otaheitan benefactor, he declared he had thus carried him off, to share in the honour of his expected discoveries.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 340, Supplementary Number (1828) Various
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The Otaheitan prince stepped from the deck of the whaler to court with gifts of shells the demure Quaker maidens of Wilmington, and Kanaka sailors were almost as familiar on its wharves as Indian chiefs.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 25, April, 1873 Various
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Laonce, becoming thus royally allied, and in the line of the throne, instantly received publicly the investiture of the highest order of Otaheitan nobility, namely, a species of tattooing appropriated to chiefs alone.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 340, Supplementary Number (1828) Various
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Banks notes the southern islanders appeared to be an inferior race to those of the north, the latter probably more closely allied to the Otaheitan type; many of their customs were similar, and their language practically identical.
The Life of Captain James Cook Kitson, Arthur 1907
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On it are some sentences in the Otaheitan language.
The Life of Captain James Cook Kitson, Arthur 1907
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I have understood from an Otaheitan on board he told one of the chiefs to go on shore and bring his men to attack the vessel.
The Logbooks of the Lady Nelson With the journal of her first commander Lieutenant James Grant Ida Lee 1904
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An Otaheitan in the ship informed the Commander that he had asked one of the Chiefs to go on shore and bring his men to attack the vessel.
The Logbooks of the Lady Nelson With the journal of her first commander Lieutenant James Grant Ida Lee 1904
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There are several varieties, but the Otaheitan seems to be the most generally cultivated.
Our War with Spain for Cuba's Freedom Trumbull White 1904
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