Hawaii: the Past, Present, and Future of Its Island-kingdom: An Historical Account of the Sandwich Islands (Polynesia)Longmans, Green, and Company, 1866 - 523 strani |
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... natives themselves . Though a dissenter from the Church of England , Mr. Ellis's large and liberal mind shows itself in every line of his writing , and in the personal intercourse with which he obliged I have to thank the London ...
... natives themselves . Though a dissenter from the Church of England , Mr. Ellis's large and liberal mind shows itself in every line of his writing , and in the personal intercourse with which he obliged I have to thank the London ...
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... natives of both sexes . Some of the islands are well supplied with rivers and streams , particularly Hawaii and Kauai . Along the shore of Hilo , a district of that island , sixty per- manent streams of various sizes fall into the sea ...
... natives of both sexes . Some of the islands are well supplied with rivers and streams , particularly Hawaii and Kauai . Along the shore of Hilo , a district of that island , sixty per- manent streams of various sizes fall into the sea ...
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... natives , who are as much at their ease in water as they are on the land , pursued the retreating wave , gathering up fish which were left stranded . The sea then returned , and in about half an hour , had reached the mark of its ...
... natives , who are as much at their ease in water as they are on the land , pursued the retreating wave , gathering up fish which were left stranded . The sea then returned , and in about half an hour , had reached the mark of its ...
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... natives , too , believed that Pele had an underground exit from the mountain to the sea ; and we know that heathen myths are often poetic render- ings of natural facts . There were other symptoms of a great flow of lava about the same ...
... natives , too , believed that Pele had an underground exit from the mountain to the sea ; and we know that heathen myths are often poetic render- ings of natural facts . There were other symptoms of a great flow of lava about the same ...
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... native name of pelua . Many varieties of fish frequented the shores , but not in such abundance as in some other ... natives in the water , that one of their amusements was to attack a shark , and after having evaded and taunted him ...
... native name of pelua . Many varieties of fish frequented the shores , but not in such abundance as in some other ... natives in the water , that one of their amusements was to attack a shark , and after having evaded and taunted him ...
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