The New HawaiiMills & Boon, limited, 1923 - 270 pages |
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Aloha American beach beauty Big Island California called canoe Captain charm chaulmoogra oil Chinese Club coco-nut colour commercial Conference countries crater dream eyes feather feet fish flowers Ford garden Haleakala Haleiwa hand haole harbour Hawaii-born Hawaiian head heart heiau Hilo holoku Honolulu hospitality hundred IAO VALLEY isles Jack London Jack's Japanese kahilis Kalaupapa kamaaina Kamehameha Kamehameha Day Kauai Keaau Kilauea King Kalakaua Kingman's Kona Kuhio Lahaina lanai land lantana lava Liliuokalani living London and Hawaii look married Maui Mauna Kea Mauna Loa miles missionaries Molokai mountain National native never night Oahu once Pacific palace Palmyra Pan-Pacific Union Polynesian Prince Princess queen race rainbows Ranch royal ship Shipman Snark sour-dough stood Territory Territory of Hawaii thousand Thurston tion to-day trail tropical valley Volcano wahine Waialua Waikiki wall wild women young
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Page 27 - No alien land in all the world has any deep, strong charm for me but that one: no other land could so longingly and beseechingly haunt me sleeping and waking, through half a lifetime, as that one has done.
Page 27 - For me its balmy airs are always blowing, its summer seas flashing in the sun, the pulsing of its...
Page 127 - There is something approaching the sublime in the lofty noddings of the kahiles of state, as they tower far above the heads of the group whose distinction they proclaim : something conveying to the mind impressions of greater majesty than the gleanings of the most splendid banner I ever saw unfurled.
Page 31 - Love"? That greeting is Aloha— love, I love you, my love to you. Good day— what is it more than an impersonal remark about the weather? How do you do — it is personal in a merely casual interrogative sort of way.
Page 104 - ... were engaged ; by joining these together it is probable that they made the large seines which we saw. The women are less regarded here than in the South Sea Islands, so, at least, thought Tupia, who complained of it as an insult upon the sex. They eat with the men, however. How the sexes divide labour I do not know, but I am inclined to believe that the men till the ground, fish in boats, make nets, and take birds, while the women dig up fern roots, collect shell -fish and lobsters near the beach,...
Page 124 - The upper parts of these kahilis were of scarlet feathers so ingeniously and beautifully arranged on artificial branches attached to the staff as to form cylinders fifteen or eighteen inches in diameter, and twelve or fourteen feet long ; the lower parts or handles were covered with alternate rings of tortoise shell and ivory of the neatest workmanship and highest polish.
Page 170 - ... and a half fathoms at the anchorage, and leaving a great extent of the harbour dry. Hundreds of curious souls rushed down to witness the novelty, when a gigantic wave came roaring to the shore at the rate of six or eight knots an hour, rising twenty feet above high water mark, and fell on the beach with a noise resembling a heavy peal of thunder, burying the people in the flood, destroying houses, canoes, and fish-ponds, washing away the food and clothing of the inhabitants, large quantities...
Page 20 - Sahara into an oasis for kings. Not only did the Hawaii-born not talk about it, but they forgot about it. Just as the sport was at its dying gasp, along came one, Alexander Ford, from the mainland. And he talked. Surf-boarding was the sport of sports. There was nothing like it anywhere else in the world. They ought to be ashamed for letting it languish. It was one of the island's assets, a drawing card for travellers that would fill their hotels and bring them many permanent residents, etc. He continued...
Page 88 - While there were grave faults in his character, there were also noble traits. He loved his country and his people. He was true and steadfast in friendship. Duplicity and intrigue were foreign to his nature. He always chose men of tried integrity for responsible offices, and never betrayed secrets of state, even in his most unguarded moments.
Page 171 - Inquiries have been made of masters of vessels who were to the north and to the cast of the islands on the 7th, at various distances, but none of them noticed any thing unusual in the sea, or atmosphere. That this apparent submarine volcanic action has taken place at some distance from the islands is proved by the wave striking the different islands simultaneously and apparently in the same direction ; but at what distance we have no means at present of determining.