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- proper noun obsolete
Fiji .
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Examples
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I imagine these to be the islands called Feejee, as their extent, direction, and distance from the Friendly Islands answer to the description given of them by those islanders.
Great Sea Stories Various 1897
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The mummified body of a creature dubbed the Feejee Mermaid was first displayed by circus emprasario PT Barnum in 1882 and toured around the United States.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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I directed the course to the west-north-west that we might get a sight of the islands called Feejee if they laid in the direction the natives had pointed out to me.
A Voyage to the South Sea For The Purpose Of Conveying The Bread-Fruit Tree To The West Indies, Including An Account Of The Mutiny On Board The Ship William Bligh 1785
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I directed my course to the W N W, that I might get a sight of the islands called Feejee, if they laid in the direction the natives had pointed out to me.
A Narrative Of The Mutiny, On Board His Majesty's Ship Bounty; And The Subsequent Voyage Of Part Of The Crew, In The Ship's Boat William Bligh 1785
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I imagine these to be the islands called Feejee, as their extent, direction, and distance from the Friendly Islands, answers to the description given of them by those Islanders.
A Narrative Of The Mutiny, On Board His Majesty's Ship Bounty; And The Subsequent Voyage Of Part Of The Crew, In The Ship's Boat William Bligh 1785
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I imagine these to be the islands called Feejee as their extent, direction, and distance from the Friendly Islands answers to the description given of them by those Islanders.
A Voyage to the South Sea For The Purpose Of Conveying The Bread-Fruit Tree To The West Indies, Including An Account Of The Mutiny On Board The Ship William Bligh 1785
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While in San Francisco me and Chris decided to book ourselves onto a week long tour of Fiji called the Feejee Experience.
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Barnum exhibited the "Feejee Mermaid," for instance, a grisly amalgam of the head and torso of a monkey sewn onto the lower body of a large salmon, cleverly billed as having "such appearance of reality as any fish lying in the stalls of our fish markets."
Wildlife Without Life Elizabeth Lowry 2011
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It was easily as thrilling as the time I paid to see the Feejee
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Probably more recently than the last time someone invoked Feejee cannibalism.
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