Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, 1836-1907 · Boston, CT : Hall and Locke · leaf 393
and, in boats or on horseback, tosell their produce and buy necessaries for the comingweek. We walked through the shady streets to thetwo covered market buildings, partitioned across withgreat bunches of oranges, plantains and many-colored vegetables,hung onstrings.The mats,beds, andpillows… … Native Women. At Tahiti 353 laughing, and some staring at us — hut not rudely— looked much more like a chorus of opera-singers,dressed for their parts in some grand spectacle, thanordinary market-going peasants. Whichever way oneturned, the prospect was an animated and attractiveone. Here, beneath…
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