Savaii Sentence Examples

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  • The Maoris are Polynesians, and, in common with the majority of their kinsfolk throughout the Pacific, they have traditions which point to Savaii, originally Savaiki, the largest island of the Samoan group, as their cradleland.

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  • Hand timber trees, of use in boat-building, &c., are especially characteristic of Savaii.

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  • Thus the term Savaii itself, originally Savaiki, is supposed to have been carried by the Samoan wanderers over the ocean to Tahiti, New Zealand, the Marquesas and Sandwich groups, where it still survives in such variant forms as Havaii, Hawaiki, Havaiki and Hawaii.

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  • The dead were buried, and their spirits believed to travel to a world entered by a pool at the western extremity of Savaii.

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  • The traditions of many of the Polynesian peoples tend to make Savaii, the largest of the Samoan Islands, their ancestral home in the East Pacific, and linguistic and other evidence goes to i Account of the Polynesian Race (1878), i.

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  • Visit to Savaii in trading schooner weighing copra ' .

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  • Visit to Savaii in trading schooner weighing copra '.

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