Feejeeans

Such was the installation of Bishop Higgins, or, as the Feejeeans insisted upon considering him, Divinity Higgins, over the diocese of the

Humorous Masterpieces from American Literature Various

The art of preparing arrowroot from it is aboriginal with the Polynesians and Feejeeans.

The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c. P. L. Simmonds

After hearing his whole story, I told him I did not believe a word of it; to which he answered, that the main part of it was true, but he might have made some mistakes, as he had been so much in the habit of lying to the Feejeeans, that he hardly now knew when he told the truth, adding, that he had no desire to tell anything but the truth.

The Book of Enterprise and Adventure Being an Excitement to Reading. for Young People. a New and Condensed Edition. Anonymous

On my asking him if he did not cultivate the ground, he said at once no; he found it much easier to get his living by telling the Feejeeans stories, which he could always make good enough for them; -- these, and the care of his two little boys, and his hens, and his pigs, when he had any, gave him ample employment and plenty of food.

The Book of Enterprise and Adventure Being an Excitement to Reading. for Young People. a New and Condensed Edition. Anonymous

Feejeeans are very ingenious at canoe-building and carpentry, and, curious enough, the barber is a most important personage, as they take great pains and pride in dressing their hair.

The Island Home Richard Archer

Thus Sir John Lubbock speaks [213] of certain Feejeeans, who, according to the testimony of Mr. Hunt, [214] have the custom of piously choking their parents under certain circumstances, in order to insure their happiness in a future life.

On the Genesis of Species St. George Mivart

Although the Feejeeans have made considerable progress in several useful arts, they are in many respects the most barbarous and savage race now existing upon the globe.

The Island Home Richard Archer

They were not such epicures in cannibalism as the inhabitants of the Feejee Islands formerly were, and did not make as much ceremony as the Feejeeans over their feasts of human flesh.

The Land of the Kangaroo Adventures of Two Youths in a Journey through the Great Island Continent Thomas Wallace Knox 1865

It is a filthy preparation, and only partaken of by the lower classes of Feejeeans.

Catalogue of Economic Plants in the Collection of the U. S. Department of Agriculture William Saunders 1861

"And ask him," said I, "who she is, for I am persuaded she is of a different race from the Feejeeans."

The Coral Island 1859