Samoans Sentence Examples

In any case, the Samoans are the most perfect type of Polynesians, of a light brown colour, splendid physique, and handsome regular features, with an average height of 5 ft.

The principal foods of the Samoans are vegetables, coco-nut, bread-fruit, fish and pork.

His body was carried next day by sixty sturdy Samoans, who acknowledged Stevenson as their chief, to the summit of the precipitous peak of Vaea, where he had wished to be buried, and where they left him to rest for ever with the Pacific Ocean at his feet.

The natives are keen traders, and though uncouth in manners when compared with their nearest neighbours, the Tongans and Samoans, are friendly to Europeans.

The view which has received most general acceptance is that they represent a branch of the Caucasic division of mankind who migrated at a remote period possibly in Neolithic times from the Asiatic mainland travelling by way of the Malay Archipelago and gradually colonizing the eastern Pacific. The Polynesians, who, as represented by such groups as the Samoans and Marquesas islanders, are the physical equal of Europeans, are of a light brown colour, tall, well-proportioned, with regular and often beautiful features.

If such be indeed the case, perhaps the noblest of all primitive races may yet be saved from what at one time seemed inevitable extinction; and the Maori, the Samoans, and Tahitians may, like the Hawaiians, take their place beside the Europeans as free citizens of the various states of which they are now subjects.

The natives are all Christians, and in type and speech are akin to the Samoans.

The Fijians are a people of Melanesian (Papuan) stock much crossed with Polynesians (Tongans and Samoans).

As he went, he spoke and even jested with the Samoans, and they answered in good part.

Unlike Hawaiian taro cultivation which is done in patches flooded with water, Samoans grow taro cultivation which is done in patches flooded with water, Samoans grow taro in unflooded but wet soil.

Unlike Hawaiian taro cultivation which is done in patches flooded with water, Samoans grow taro in unflooded but wet soil.