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  • At this point the recitation was interrupted because of unintelligible text in another language, but then comes a reference to a different ‘spider’, this one living in the aboriginal homeland Hiva ‘where the black and white-pointed spider would have mounted to heaven, but was prevented by the bitterness of the cold’.6

    The Eight Wonder of the World – Easter Island | Impact Lab 2007

  • "Oh, a hornbill!" said the captain, repeating the name of the bird for the information of those around him; and now that they more narrowly scrutinised the spot where the white-pointed beak was still bobbing out and in, they could perceive that there was a patch or space of irregular roundish shape, slightly elevated above the bark, having a plastered appearance, and of the colour of dry mud.

    The Castaways Mayne Reid 1850

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