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Stories of Life in Old Hawaii

By: Caroline Curtis

...information about the life and customs of long-ago Hawaii is lost. My greatest help has come from Mary Kawena Pukui. As a little girl in Kau, on the island of Hawaii, she lived with a wise grandmother who told her much about the old ways and beliefs. Young as she was, she listened with deep interest and felt herself a part of the life of the early days. Later, as a transl...

...he Stonecutters. 231 -- In the Master's Yard. 231 -- The Journey. 234 -- The Workshop of the Adzes. 238 -- The Load of Adzes. 241 -- Lost. 246 -- The Island. 249 -- Hiwa. 255 -- Kalo Wehiwa. 255 -- Prayers for the Precious One. 257 -- A Kahuna of Healing. 261 -- "Funny Child". 261 -- A Pupil. 263 -- Maile Becomes a Kahuna. 268 -- Fishponds and Torches. 273 -- Year's End. 2...

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A History of Fishing Practices and Marine Fisheries of the Hawaiian Islands : Oral History Interviews Vol. 2

By: Kepa Maly

...th elder kama?aina ranging in age from their late 60s to late 90s. The interviews document personal knowledge of fisheries of all the major Hawaiian Islands (Hawai?i to Ni?ihau), and also touch on the fisheries of Nihoa and the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands of the archipelago....

...History Documentation. 2 -- Ka Hana Lawaia:-Kamaaina Observations (1900 To 2003). 8 -- Oral History Interviews. 10 -- (Cited By Date Of Recording And Island Locations)-Island Of Hawaii:-Mary Kawena Pukui-He Moolelo No Halaea–A Tradition Of The Aku Fisheries-Of Kalae, At Kau, And The Ocean Current Of Halaea-Oral History Interview November 7, 1977 – With Kepa Maly. 10-Camell...

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Ruling Chiefs of Hawaii

By: S. M. Kamakau

...John Wise. Mary Kawena Pukui then reviewed the entire translation, together with Martha Warren Beckwith, who added the footnotes. Dorothy Barrere and Caroline Curtis proofread the manuscript. The resulting book was an immediate success, and soon became a classic of Hawaiian history. Now, thirty years later, the book has long been out of print. Kamehameha Schools is happy ...

...d from Hana-laa-nui. The ruling chiefs (noho alii) of Hawaii were of that particular lineage (mookuauhau), and with additions from those of the other islands, the genealogy of Hawaii's chiefs and their ancestors was made complete. Umi-a-Liloa [that is, Umi-son-of-Liloa] was a famous chief, and the reason for his fame was that it was he who united all of the districts of H...

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Young Folks, History of England

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

...were called Britons. And the country he came to see? That was our very own island, England, only it was not called so then. And the place where Julius... ...k. One of their emperors, named Claudius, sent his soldiers to conquer the island, and then came to see it himself, and called himself Brittanicus in ... ... then three lovely ladies came in a boat, and carried him away to a secret island. The Welsh kept on saying, for years and years, that one day king Ar... ... There were generally about seven kings, each with a different part of the island and as they were often at war with one another, they used to steal o... ...mined to punish the cruel, treacherous king and people, and take the whole island for his own. He did punish the people, kill- ing, burning, and plund... ...but he had a son, also named George, who had a very clever, handsome wife —Caroline of Anspach, a German princess; but the king was jealous of them, a... ...est son, Frederick, Prince of Wales, and his lively and clever wife, Queen Caroline, many years before his death. His chief ministers were, first, Sir... ...l but the name for eight years past. He had been married to the Prin- cess Caroline of Brunswick, much against his will, for she was, though a princes... ... should have all the shame and disgrace, and the stronger one none. One of Caroline’s defenders said that if her name were left out of the Litany, yet...

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Autobiography Truth and Fiction Relating to My Life

By: Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

...our- aged the development of Schlegel. Darmstadt was especially fortunate. Caroline, the wife of the landgrave, had surrounded herself with a literary... ...ue time, follows in the nature of things; and it may be imagined that the “Island of Falsenberg” was not wanting. Lord Anson’s “V oyage round the Glob... ...of vegetation which follows in the windings of the Rhine, marks its banks, islands, and aits. Nor is the level ground, stretching down from the south,... ...epared; and especially remarkable to me was the building which stood on an island in the Rhine be- tween the two bridges, erected for her reception an...

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John Keble's Parishes a History of Hursley and Otterbourne

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

..., it is only conjectural. He supposes that the ancient inhabitants of this island were for the most part herdsmen and shepherds; that their elder sons... ...rty of his uncle, and in the November of the same year he married the Hon. Caroline Frances Perceval, the youngest daughter of Charles George Lord Ard... ..., as would readily have been granted. He married Mrs. Keble’s cousin, Miss Caroline Coxwell, and their young family was an infinite source of delight ...

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Catherine : A Story

By: William Makepeace Thackeray

...,” the boy said. “Would you have currants, lady? These once bloomed in the island gardens of the blue Aegean. They are uncommon fine ones, and the fig... ...and I must dixcribe what they sor in the nex number. III THE CASTLE OF THE ISLAND OF FOGO. THE TRA VLER who pesews his dalitefle coarse through the fa... ...ntry resadences; but their fayvorit resadence was called the Castle of the Island of Fogo. Add I the penn of the hawther of a Codlingsby himself, I co... ...e open carriage, and another to appear in the gardens of the Castle of the Island of Fogo, which were illuminated every night like V oxhall. The young... ...the consquince?—One night a fleat presented itself round the Castle of the Island of Fogo—and skewering only a couple of chests of jewils, the Marcus ... ...ord more. We hear that the Duke of Jenkins accom- panies the descendant of Caroline of Naples. An English Duke, entendez-vous! An English Duke, great ...

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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope

By: Gilfillan

...r country, and be poor! VARIATIONS. After VER. 6, in the MS.— Yon see that island’s wealth, where, only free, Earth to her entrails feels not tyranny.... ...hose very na- tions again reduced to her dominion: then distinguishing the island of Great Britain, shows by what aids, by what per- 222 The Poetical... ...ith the gilded button tipp’d its head; Then throned in glass, and named it Caroline: 426 Each maid cried, charming! and each youth, divine! 410 D... ...ch varied light in one promiscuous blaze? Now prostrate! dead! behold that Caroline: No maid cries, charming! and no youth, divine! And lo, the wretch... ...e Court of 266 The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: V ol. 2 the Princess Caroline. 75 ‘Blunderland:’ Ireland. 76 ‘Meadows:’ see verses to Mrs Howe... ... W . 300 The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: V ol. 2 426 ‘And named it Caroline:’ it is a compliment which the florists usually pay to princes and... ...urite to be painted on his sign, with this inscrip- tion—’This is my Queen Caroline.’—P . W. 427 ‘Moss:’ of which the naturalists count I can’t tell ...

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War and Peace

By: Leo Tolstoy, Graf

... jostling masses of Russian troops. At the bend of the Danube, vessels, an island, and a castle with a park surrounded by the waters of the confluence... ...ceived for the campaign, and made expeditions to Olmutz to visit a certain Caroline the Hungarian, who had recently opened a restaurant there with gir... ...ed ravines and the copses, which at the end of August had still been green islands amid black fields and stubble, had become golden and bright-red isl... ... their talk with a serious and thoughtful air, and then got up again. “The island of Madagascar,” she said, “Ma-da-gas- car,” she repeated, articulati... ... her arms round his neck, and he pranced along with her. “No, don’t... the island of Madagascar!” she said, and jumping off his back she went downstai... ... that the war was caused by England’s intrigues (as in fact he said on the island of St. Helena). It naturally seemed to members of the English Parlia...

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Autobiography

By: John Stuart Mill

...n temporarily assuaged by the celebrated Six Acts, when the trial of Queen Caroline roused a still wider and deeper feeling of hatred. Though the outw... ...ual with Englishmen to whatever is going on in the world outside their own island, made them profoundly ignorant of all the antecedents of the struggl...

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