Polynesian Researches: During a Residence of Nearly Eight Years in the Society and Sandwich Islands, المجلد 4J.& J. Harper, 1833 |
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... . IN FOUR VOLUMES . VOL . IV . NEW - YORK : PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY J. & J. HARPER , No. 82 CLIFF - STREET . AND SOLD BY THE PRINCIPAL BOOKSELLERS THROUGHOUT THE UNITED STATES . CONTENTS OF THE FOURTH VOLUME . DU 510 E46 1833 1833 .
... . IN FOUR VOLUMES . VOL . IV . NEW - YORK : PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY J. & J. HARPER , No. 82 CLIFF - STREET . AND SOLD BY THE PRINCIPAL BOOKSELLERS THROUGHOUT THE UNITED STATES . CONTENTS OF THE FOURTH VOLUME . DU 510 E46 1833 1833 .
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... principal chiefs - Effects of our visit -Departure for the Society Islands - Return to Oahu - Arrival of mission- aries - Objects of the projected tour of Hawaii - Remarks on the orthography of native words . CHAPTER III . FROM PAGE 48 ...
... principal chiefs - Effects of our visit -Departure for the Society Islands - Return to Oahu - Arrival of mission- aries - Objects of the projected tour of Hawaii - Remarks on the orthography of native words . CHAPTER III . FROM PAGE 48 ...
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... principal attendant - Return to Oahu . APPENDIX 333 PLATES IN VOL . IV . Chart of the Sandwich Isles .............................. . page 1 Vignette Title - Swimming in the Surf Frontispiece . - Volcano of Kirauea 1 POLYNESIAN ...
... principal attendant - Return to Oahu . APPENDIX 333 PLATES IN VOL . IV . Chart of the Sandwich Isles .............................. . page 1 Vignette Title - Swimming in the Surf Frontispiece . - Volcano of Kirauea 1 POLYNESIAN ...
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... principal island of the group , resembles in shape an equilateral triangle , and is some- what less than three hundred miles in circumference , - being about ninety - seven miles in length , seventy - eight in breadth , two hundred and ...
... principal island of the group , resembles in shape an equilateral triangle , and is some- what less than three hundred miles in circumference , - being about ninety - seven miles in length , seventy - eight in breadth , two hundred and ...
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... principal of the Society Islands , but more grand and sublime , filling the mind of the be- holder with wonder and delight . On approaching the islands , I have more than once observed the mountains of the interior long before the coast ...
... principal of the Society Islands , but more grand and sublime , filling the mind of the be- holder with wonder and delight . On approaching the islands , I have more than once observed the mountains of the interior long before the coast ...
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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.