History of the Sandwich Islands: With an Account of the American Mission Established There in 1820. With a Supplement, Embracing the History of the Wonderful Displays of God's Power in These Islands in 1837-1839. Revised by the Committee of Publication of the American Sunday-School UnionAmerican Sunday-School Union, 1831 - 231 Seiten |
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... says , " was almost overwhelmin naked figures and wild expression nance , their black hair streaming i as they hurried the canoe over the all the eager action and muscular savages , their rapid and unintellig mations , and whole ...
... says , " was almost overwhelmin naked figures and wild expression nance , their black hair streaming i as they hurried the canoe over the all the eager action and muscular savages , their rapid and unintellig mations , and whole ...
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... says Mr. Stewart , " is the largest each sheet , ten of which , fastened to one end , form a bed - cover , being as an ordinary counterpane . " Besides the dress already describe is common to all classes , there are th ed cloak and cap ...
... says Mr. Stewart , " is the largest each sheet , ten of which , fastened to one end , form a bed - cover , being as an ordinary counterpane . " Besides the dress already describe is common to all classes , there are th ed cloak and cap ...
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... says Mr. Ellis , " rather a singu- lar looking little man , between forty and fifty years of age . A thick bunch of long , black , curling hair shaded his wrinkled forehead ; and another bunch of the same kind hung down behind each of ...
... says Mr. Ellis , " rather a singu- lar looking little man , between forty and fifty years of age . A thick bunch of long , black , curling hair shaded his wrinkled forehead ; and another bunch of the same kind hung down behind each of ...
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... . That you may form an idea tent to which this ' oppression was will give you a fact , related by o missionaries , as having happened knowledge , in the Island of Oahu . HARVARD COLLEGE LITARY A poor man , " says he. 30 HISTORY OF THE.
... . That you may form an idea tent to which this ' oppression was will give you a fact , related by o missionaries , as having happened knowledge , in the Island of Oahu . HARVARD COLLEGE LITARY A poor man , " says he. 30 HISTORY OF THE.
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... says he , " by some means obtained possession of a pig , when too small to make a meal for his family . He secreted it at a distance from his house , and fed it till it had grown to a size sufficient to afford the desired repast . It ...
... says he , " by some means obtained possession of a pig , when too small to make a meal for his family . He secreted it at a distance from his house , and fed it till it had grown to a size sufficient to afford the desired repast . It ...
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ai noa American Board arrived attended Bible Bingham blessings boat brought calabashes canoes Captain Cook cause character Christ Christian church civilized crater death degraded doubtless dress E. E. MY DEAR effect Ellis favour fear feelings females foreigners friends give gods gospel habits HARVARD COLLEGE Hawaii heathen Heiau Honolulu hope idolatry idols influence inhabitants instruction interesting Kaahumanu Kailua Kalaimoku Kamehameha Kauai Kaumualii Keopuolani kind king and chiefs labours Lahaina land language late learning length letter Liho-Liho Lord Lord Byron manner Maui means ment minds mission family missionaries nation natives nature Oahu object Pele persons Poki prayer present preter priests queen racter reached religion Sabbath Sandwich Islands says schools seated ship shore sion sionaries Society Islands soon stations Stewart subjects suffer superstition tabu tapa things thousand tion told truth vessels visited voyage whole wife William Kanui worship writing
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Seite 193 - Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness; covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity, whisperers, Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, Without understanding, covenant breakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful...
Seite 172 - God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise, and the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty...
Seite 58 - 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
Seite 58 - ... many craters, rose either round the edge or from the surface of the burning lake. Twentytwo constantly emitted columns of grey smoke, or pyramids of brilliant flame ; and several of these at the same time vomited from their ignited mouths streams of lava, which rolled in blazing torrents down their black indented sides into the boiling mass below.
Seite 57 - ... 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
Seite 58 - The grey, and in some places apparently calcined, sides of the great crater before us ; the fissures which intersected the surface of the plain on which we were standing ; the long banks of sulphur on the opposite side of the abyss ; the vigorous action of the numerous small craters on its borders ; the dense columns of vapour and smoke, that rose at the north and south...
Seite 59 - Kirauea, darting their fierce light athwart the midnight gloom, unfolded a sight terrible and sublime beyond all we had yet seen. The agitated mass of liquid lava, like a flood of melted metal, raged with tumultuous whirl. The lively...
Seite 59 - ... of the abyss ; the vigorous action of the numerous small craters on its borders ; the dense columns of vapour and smoke, that rose at the north and south end of the plain ; together with the ridge of steep rocks by which it was surrounded, rising probably in some places 300 or 400 feet in perpendicular height, presented an immense volcanic panorama, the effect of which was greatly augmented by the constant roaring of the vast furnaces below.
Seite 179 - I be mistaken in the causes and the nature of those varied emotions, under the circumstances in which they were beheld — and in one of whom I had never heard, and whom I had never before seen ? No, I could not : and if so — what is the language they speak ? They plainly say that this poor woman, grown gray in the ignorance and varied degradation of heathenism, by " the lamp let down from heaven...
Seite 57 - After walking some distance over the sunken plain, which in several places sounded hollow under our feet, we at length came to the edge of the great crater, where a spectacle, sublime and even appalling, presented itself before us —