Life in the Sandwich Islands: Or, The Heart of the Pacific, as it was and isA.S. Barnes & Company, 1856 - 355 páginas |
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... Living Specimens exhibited - Letting a Crab out of Prison - How the Corals grow - Theory for the Formation of a Coral Island - The Tumuli of a buried Continent - Evidence of a re - elevatory Process - Geological Phenomena not accounted ...
... Living Specimens exhibited - Letting a Crab out of Prison - How the Corals grow - Theory for the Formation of a Coral Island - The Tumuli of a buried Continent - Evidence of a re - elevatory Process - Geological Phenomena not accounted ...
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... living , and the accounts they gave were afterwards compared and corrected by their teacher , Rev. Sheldon Dibble , until a valuable au- thentic volume grew therefrom . The authors of this say , that owing to their conviction that Lono ...
... living , and the accounts they gave were afterwards compared and corrected by their teacher , Rev. Sheldon Dibble , until a valuable au- thentic volume grew therefrom . The authors of this say , that owing to their conviction that Lono ...
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... living only a few years ago . Some of the bones of the dead were afterwards returned to the ship , and the rest preserved by the priests , and worshipped . Ledyard's account of the same transactions is this : THE NARRATIVE OF LEDYARD ...
... living only a few years ago . Some of the bones of the dead were afterwards returned to the ship , and the rest preserved by the priests , and worshipped . Ledyard's account of the same transactions is this : THE NARRATIVE OF LEDYARD ...
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... living , and those gods their imaginations made like unto themselves . Thus , the conical craters in the bed of the volcano they regarded as the houses of their gods , where they amused themselves by playing at konane , the favorite ...
... living , and those gods their imaginations made like unto themselves . Thus , the conical craters in the bed of the volcano they regarded as the houses of their gods , where they amused themselves by playing at konane , the favorite ...
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... “ Yes ; and I suppose the devil would not turn me out of hell , if he got me there ! " He is now restored , and is living in good standing with the native church . Coffee is being extensively cultivated by this man and his.
... “ Yes ; and I suppose the devil would not turn me out of hell , if he got me there ! " He is now restored , and is living in good standing with the native church . Coffee is being extensively cultivated by this man and his.
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American Board ARTICLE beautiful blessing called canoe chief Christ Christian civilization clouds contracting parties coral crater death dollars duties earth English exports favored feet foreign France furnished give Gospel Hale-a-ka-la Hawaii Hawaii-nei Hawaiian Government Hawaiian Islands Hawaiian language heart heathen heaven Hilo Honolulu human hundred Kamehameha III Kauai Kealakekua King kingdom Kohala labor Lahaina Lahainaluna Lanai land language lava laws lime living Lord Maui meeting-house ment miles mind Minister mission missionaries Molokai moral mountain nation native churches nature Niihau Oahu ocean Pacific pagan pastor Perrin persons Polynesia port preach present priest R. C. WYLLIE race reef religion religious rock sand Sandwich Isl Sandwich Islands seen Seminary ships shore side souls spirits station teachers thing thou thousand tion Treaty truth undersigned United vessels volcano Waialua Wailuku Wakea whale-ships
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Página 159 - And thou, too, whosoe'er thou art, That readest this brief psalm, As one by one thy hopes depart, Be resolute and calm. O fear not in a world like this, And thou shalt know ere long, Know how sublime a thing it is To suffer and be strong.
Página 285 - The One remains, the many change and pass; Heaven's light forever shines, Earth's shadows fly; Life, like a dome of many-colored glass, Stains the white radiance of Eternity, Until Death tramples it to fragments.
Página 123 - No, faith, not a jot ; but to follow him thither with modesty enough, and likelihood to lead it: As thus; Alexander died, Alexander was buried, Alexander returneth to dust ; the dust is earth ; of earth we make loam : And why of that loam, whereto he was converted, might they not stop a beer-barrel...
Página 252 - It is a good divine that follows his own instructions; I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done than to be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching.
Página 138 - Thy sinless land, Which eye hath never seen. Visions come and go; Shapes of resplendent beauty round me throng, From angel lips I seem to hear the flow Of soft and holy song.
Página 111 - twas an unimaginable sight ! Clouds, mists, streams, watery rocks and emerald turf, Clouds of all tincture, rocks and sapphire sky, Confused, commingled, mutually inflamed, Molten together, and composing thus, Each lost in each, that marvellous array Of temple, palace, citadel, and huge Fantastic pomp of structure without name, In fleecy folds voluminous, enwrapped.
Página 277 - And seek the peace of the city whither I have caused you to be carried away captives, and pray unto the Lord for it: for in the peace thereof shall ye have peace.
Página 190 - ... invisible. These animals are of a great variety of shapes and sizes, and in such prodigious numbers, that, in a short time, the whole surface of the rock appears to be alive and in motion. The most common worm is in the form of...
Página 151 - Through the high wood echoing shrill: Sometime walking, not unseen, By hedge-row elms, on hillocks green, Right against the eastern gate, Where the great sun begins his state, Robed in flames, and amber light, The clouds in thousand liveries dight...
Página 348 - Majesty shall, upon mutual requisitions by them, or their ministers, officers, or authorities respectively made, deliver up to justice all persons who, being charged with the crime of murder, or assault with intent to commit murder, or piracy, or arson, or robbery, or forgery, or the utterance of forged paper, committed within the jurisdiction of either, shall seek an asylum, or shall be found, within the territories of the other...