Fire Fountains: The Kingdom of Hawaii, Its Volcanoes, and the History of Its Missions,W. Blackwood, 1883 |
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... carried out , is admitted on all hands , for some can always contrive to evade it ; but such cases must necessarily be exceptional , and as the people are beginning to understand that the isolation of the few is the only hope of safety ...
... carried out , is admitted on all hands , for some can always contrive to evade it ; but such cases must necessarily be exceptional , and as the people are beginning to understand that the isolation of the few is the only hope of safety ...
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... carrying out the sad law of isolation , the paternal Government and its officers have endeavoured as far as possible to lighten its woe , by making the leper village of Kalawao as much as possible like other villages , in that it has ...
... carrying out the sad law of isolation , the paternal Government and its officers have endeavoured as far as possible to lighten its woe , by making the leper village of Kalawao as much as possible like other villages , in that it has ...
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... carried to battle by their priests to insure victory . These gods were no light burden , being great blocks of wood several feet high , with heads and necks formed of fine wickerwork , covered with red feathers so curiously wrought as ...
... carried to battle by their priests to insure victory . These gods were no light burden , being great blocks of wood several feet high , with heads and necks formed of fine wickerwork , covered with red feathers so curiously wrought as ...
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... carried the first - fruits of their annual harvest of the sea , as the seasons brought successive shoals of divers kinds of fish . They even offered their own dead relations to the hungry sharks , under the belief that the spirit of ...
... carried the first - fruits of their annual harvest of the sea , as the seasons brought successive shoals of divers kinds of fish . They even offered their own dead relations to the hungry sharks , under the belief that the spirit of ...
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... way of pilfering were severely dealt with . Some were fired at with small - shot , and one was carried on board and flogged . Ere long , the faith of the people in the divinity ! . of their guests was considerably shaken by the.
... way of pilfering were severely dealt with . Some were fired at with small - shot , and one was carried on board and flogged . Ere long , the faith of the people in the divinity ! . of their guests was considerably shaken by the.
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