Polynesian Researches: During a Residence of Nearly Eight Years in the Society and Sandwich Islands, المجلد 4J.& J. Harper, 1833 |
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... heard , there is throughout a de- gree of accuracy seldom , if ever , exceeded in accounts equally minute and extended . Still , their acquaintance with the islands and the people was superficial , and the state of society which they ...
... heard , there is throughout a de- gree of accuracy seldom , if ever , exceeded in accounts equally minute and extended . Still , their acquaintance with the islands and the people was superficial , and the state of society which they ...
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... heard . After the service was concluded , he again addressed them , affectionately recommending them to consider these things . Kamakau wished them to meet with the people again ; but as the day was far spent , they thought it best to ...
... heard . After the service was concluded , he again addressed them , affectionately recommending them to consider these things . Kamakau wished them to meet with the people again ; but as the day was far spent , they thought it best to ...
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... heard . There were seven or eight American and English seamen present , who requested that they might be addressed in their own language . Mr. Good- rich accordingly preached to them from Rev. iii . 20 . Returning from Karama to the ...
... heard . There were seven or eight American and English seamen present , who requested that they might be addressed in their own language . Mr. Good- rich accordingly preached to them from Rev. iii . 20 . Returning from Karama to the ...
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... heard to strike against its sides for eight seconds , but not to reach the bottom . There were two other apertures near this , nine feet in diameter , and apparently about two hundred feet deep . As the party walked along the giddy ...
... heard to strike against its sides for eight seconds , but not to reach the bottom . There were two other apertures near this , nine feet in diameter , and apparently about two hundred feet deep . As the party walked along the giddy ...
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... heard them . " After service , when we went to present our salutations to Keopuolini , we found her , Kaikioeva , and several chiefs conversing about Ta- mehameha and others of their ancestors , who had died idolaters , and expressing ...
... heard them . " After service , when we went to present our salutations to Keopuolini , we found her , Kaikioeva , and several chiefs conversing about Ta- mehameha and others of their ancestors , who had died idolaters , and expressing ...
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afterward appeared arrived attend beach Bishop calabash called canoe Captain Cook chasms chiefs Christian cloth colour conversation crater cultivated death distance district feet high fire fish foreigners formed four frequently gods Goodrich governor ground Hamakua Hawaii Hawaiian heard heiau hogs Huahine hundred feet idolatry idols inches inhabitants Jehovah Kaahumanu Kairua Karaimoku kaua Keopuolani kind Kirauea Lahaina land late king Laupahoehoe lava leaves Makoa mats Maui Messrs miles missionaries morning Mouna Kea mountains natives night o'clock Oahu occasion party passed Pélé persons pieces prayer present priests principal probably procure reached residence returned Rihoriho rocks Sabbath sacred Sandwich Islands seen ship shore side Society Islands sometimes soon spot stones stood summit tabu Tahiti Tamehameha tapa taro Tauai Thurston preached tion told took Towaihae travelled trees usually valley vessel village visited volcano voyage Waiakea walked warriors word worship
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الصفحة 83 - Sirs, why do ye these things ? We also are men of like passions with you, and preach unto you, that ye should turn from these vanities unto the living GOD, which made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and all things that are therein ; who in times past suffered all nations to walk in their own ways.
الصفحة 64 - Blessed are the eyes which see the things that ye see: For I tell you that many prophets and kings have desired to see those things which ye see, and have not seen them ; and to hear those things which ye hear, and have not heard them.
الصفحة 259 - Resides in that heavenly word! More precious than silver and gold, Or all that this earth can afford. But the sound of the church-going bell These valleys and rocks never heard, Never sighed at the sound of a knell, Or smiled when a sabbath appeared.
الصفحة 103 - When we arrived at the beach Eappo came into the pinnace, and delivered to the Captain the bones wrapped up in a large quantity of fine new cloth, and covered with a spotted cloak of black and white feathers.
الصفحة 173 - Immediately before us yawned an immense gulf, in the form of a crescent, about two miles in length, from north-east to south-west, nearly a mile in width, and apparently 800 feet deep. The bottom was covered with lava, and the south-west and northern parts of it were one vast flood of burning matter, in a state of terrific ebullition, rolling to and fro its " fiery surge
الصفحة 173 - The steep which we had descended was formed of volcanic matter, apparently a light red and gray kind of lava, vesicular, and lying in horizontal strata, varying in thickness from one to forty feet. In a small number of places, the different strata of lava were also rent in perpendicular or oblique directions, from the top to the bottom, either by earthquakes, or other violent convulsions of the ground, connected with the action of the adjacent volcano.
الصفحة 167 - But are they silent all ? or is there not A tongue in every star that talks with man, And wooes him to be wise ? nor wooes in vain : This dead of midnight is the noon of thought, . And Wisdom mounts her zenith with the stars.
الصفحة 63 - And the times of this ignorance God winked at, but now commandeth all men every where to repent : because he hath appointed a day in the which he will judge the world in righteousness, by that man whom he hath ordained ; whereof he hath given assurance unto all men, in that he hath raised him from the dead.
الصفحة 7 - We could not but be struck with the singularity of this scene ; and perhaps there were few on board, who now lamented our having failed in our endeavours to find a northern passage homeward last summer. To this disappointment we owed our having it in our power to revisit the Sandwich Islands, and to enrich our voyage with a discovery, which, though last, seemed in many respects to be the most important that had hitherto been made by Europeans, throughout the extent of the Pacific ocean.
الصفحة 190 - These sounds were not fixed or confined to one place, but rolled from one end of the crater to the other; sometimes seeming to be immediately under us, when a sensible tremor of the ground on which we lay took place ; and then again rushing to the farthest end with incalculable velocity. The whole air was filled with the tumult ; and those most soundly asleep were quickly roused by it to thorough wakefulness.