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... to Typee , and, as such, was also autobiographical. After leaving Nuku Hiva, the main character ships aboard a whaling vessel which makes its way to Tahiti, after which there is a mutiny and the majority of the crew are imprisoned on Tahiti. The book follows the actions of the narrator as he explores Tahiti and remarks on their customs and way of life. Many sources incorr...

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...Ma keia mele i hakuia e Kahakuikamoana, ua maopopo ka mookuauhau o ka loaa ana o keia mau aina. A mehe mea la no loko mai o Tahiti ka hoomaka ana e loaa na kanaka ma keia mau mokupuni, aka, aole i maopopo ma keia mau lalani...

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...According to this tradition Hawaii just rose up from the ocean, together with the group of islands of Tahiti, and it would seem the Tahitian Islands were the first group in this Pacific Ocean, and Hawaii was of a later appearance, as shown by the lines in the mele composed by Kahakuikamoana running thus: “Now cometh forth ...

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...reled With Her -- 102 -- How Aukele was Carried off to the Cliff by Halulu -- 64 -- Ankele’s Trip to Kuaihelani -- 108 -- Moikeha, After a Sojourn in Tahiti, Returns -- 112 -- Kaialea’s Trip to Waipio and His Meeting with Kila -- 136 -- Moikeha’s Residence on Kauai -- 118 -- Meeting Between Kaialea and Messengers from His Mother Hooipoikamalanai -- 142 -- Prophecy in the P...

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...a (Tangaroa a Taaroa paha), a pela aku. He puulu moolelo keia no na pae moku i hoohui ia ma ka inoa o Polenesia. He mau moolelo keia no Tonga, Samoa, Tahiti, Rarotonga, Nukuhiva, Aotearoa, Hawaii, a me Rapanui. Ua ohi ia a hakuloli ia ka hapa nui o keia mau moolelo e Kaleimakana Lenci, koe Ka Moolelo o Teremuura, ke Alii Wahine o Aimeho a me Katikatia na Keao NeSmith i ohi...

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... 39 -- No Rarotonga. 41 -- Katikatia. 42 -- Papa Wehewehe Huaolelo. 46 -- No Samoa. 47 -- O Sina a me ka Puhi. 50 -- Papa Wehewehe Huaolelo. 54 -- No Tahiti. 55 -- Teremuura, ke Alii Wahine o Aimeho. 57 -- Nonanihonihololoa. 61 -- Papa Wehewehe Huaolelo. 67 -- No Tonga. 71 -- O Toloa laua o Humu. 74 -- Papa Wehewehe Huaolelo. 79 --...

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...Hawaiian is one branch of the Polynesian language. It may well be regarded as a dialect of the Polynesian, others being the Samoan, Tahitian, Marquesan, Tuamotuan, and Maori dialects chiefly. There is an affinity between these dialects, some being closer than others. The Maori, Tahitian and Tuamotuan are closer to the Hawaiian in vocabulary than is the ...

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... We follow Strickland from the point where he abruptly abandons his wife and children to become an artist, through his life in Paris and Marseille to Tahiti where he eventually dies of leprosy (Summary by Andy Minter)>This Maugham novel is based on the life of the painter Paul Gauguin. The story is told by the narrator as he gradually comes to know the main character Charl...

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...This Side of Paradise is the debut novel of F. Scott Fitzgerald. Published in 1920, and taking its title from a line of the Rupert Brooke poem Tiare Tahiti, the book examines the lives and morality of post-World War I youth. Its protagonist, Amory Blaine, is a wealthy and attractive Princeton University student who dabbles in literature and has a series of romances that e...

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...aptain Edward Edwards, also was ordered to chart the passage between Australia and New Guinea. While Edwards managed to arrest the mutineers still on Tahiti, he sank the Pandora on a reef near Australia. Hamilton tells this story and also the story of the crew's fate after the Pandora sank. (Summary by Roy Schreiber)...

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... ship on 28 April 1789. The mutiny was led by Fletcher Christian against the commanding officer, William Bligh. On 4 April 1789, after five months in Tahiti, the Bounty set sail with its breadfruit cargo. On 28 April 1789, some 1,300 miles west of Tahiti, near Tonga, mutiny broke out. From all accounts, Fletcher Christian and several of his followers entered Bligh's cabin,...

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...highly popular through all the country of the eight Tevas, the clan to which Rahero belonged; and particularly in Taiarapu, the windward peninsula of Tahiti, where he lived. I have heard from end to end two versions; and as many as five different persons have helped me with details. There seems no reason why the tale should not be true....

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...SEA .................................................................................64 Ballads by Robert Louis Stevenson THE SONG OF RAHERO A LEGEND... ... is highly popular through all the country of the eight Tevas, the clan to which Rahero belonged; and particularly in Taiarapu, the windward peninsula... ..., lacking the lamp and the fire, Washed by the rains of the trade and clotting his hair in the mire; *“Pai,” “Honoura,” and “Ahupu.” Legendary persons... ... an oven.” The cooking fire is made in a hole in the ground, and is then buried. ** “Flies.” This is perhaps an anachronism. Even speaking of to-day... ...e sate, in the door of his palace, the king on a kingly seat, And aitos stood armed around, and the yottowas** sat at his feet. * “Leaves,” the plates... ...otice of folk, and pleased that his journey was done, * “Omare,” pronounce as a dactyl. A loaded quarter-staff, one of the two favourite weap- ons of ... ...ot the paths of the mountain and trod the verge of the cliff; * “The Ribbon of Light.” Still to be seen (and heard) spinning from one marae to another... ...excellent fruits; Plant we bananas and kava and taro, the king of roots; Let the pigs in Paea be tapu* and no man fish for a year; And of all the meat... ...eed of brutes, And turned from the pigs to the fish, and again from the fish to the fruits, * “Fish, the food of desire.” There is a special word in ...

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...Three men down on their luck in Tahiti agree to ship out on a vessel whose officers have died of smallpox. Their desperate venture inspires them to a further idea: they will steal the schooner and its cargo of champagne, sell them, and live a plentiful life...

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... possible for some people to skip some needs in the pursuit of achieving the meta-needs. The French painter, Paul Gauguin, left his family for Tahiti... ...i in order to paint. Tumbling from his banking job with the fall of the economy, rather than pursue financial security in business he left for Tahiti...

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...Unele au gust de nuc ă de cocos... Dansul “hula” din Hawaii, apoi jocuri din Tahiti, iar din Samoa – dansul r ăzboinicului cu foc, strigând pe scen... ... via ţa în insulele pacifice: Samoa, Noua Zeeland ă, Fiji, Hawaii, Marquesas, Tahiti şi Tonga... În Samoa, b ărba ţii g ătesc (femeile din sal ă ap...

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...joined humanity?” —“Some might think that I would want to take a month on Tahiti and soak up some rays, but remember, I have been alone for 25 yea...

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...nks as naturalist of the expedition. On April 13th, 1769, the Endeavor reached Tahiti (Otaheite), where the astronomical observations were successfull... ...r reached her destination and came to anchor in Port Royal Bay at Otaheite, or Tahiti, first called King George the Third Island. Here Cook was immedi... ...evail at the Navigator Islands, but at the Hervey Group, and still more at the Tahitian and Society Islands, where it was carried to an extent truly a... ...th every one he met. He subsequently set sail in a singularly-shaped canoe for Tahiti (Otaheite), or a foreign country. After his departure he was dei...

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...ew his jet lag was slowing him up, he was still lagging somewhere west of Tahiti. She found him in the hotel lobby but without his South Sea pareo. ... ...one can live in California or Florida, loll on the beaches of Thailand or Tahiti, or enjoy the mountains of British Columbia or Austria. Until then ... ... and three friends had boarded a Russian freighter in 1946 to vacation in Tahiti and forget the war. They were arrested as spies and sent to Siberia ...

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...Even if you never bought the plants from that corporation… even if you live in Tahiti and the plant you are raising is a native-grown plant on that i...

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... in twenty-four hours, the ship’s head should be pointed for the island of Tahiti. This announcement produced a strong sensation—the sick rallied—and ... ...t Trades strong on our bow. The captain was no better; and we were off for Tahiti. 46 Omoo CHAPTER XIV. ROPE YARN WHILE GLIDING along on our way, I c... ... steering; and, with a wind, in less than twenty-four hours we would sight Tahiti. What he said was verified. The island turned out to be one of the P... ...bt, a short time since came tinder the allegiance of Pomaree, the Queen of Tahiti; with which island they always carried on considerable intercourse. ... ..., six or eight feet long; and these form part of the circulating medium of Tahiti. T o return to the ship. The wind dying away, evening came on before... ...ral cells, and catching their long hair in the coral twigs! CHAPTER XVIII. TAHITI AT EARLY DAWN of the following morning we saw the Peaks of Tahiti. I... ...or fellow! It was not Hivarhoo. Green Hivarhoo was many a long league off. Tahiti is by far the most famous island in the South Seas; indeed, a variet... ...y wooded. Unlike many of the other islands, there extends nearly all round Tahiti a belt of low, alluvial soil, teeming with the richest vegetation. H... ...aid; while for poetry, their mythology rivalled that of ancient Greece. Of Tahiti, earlier and more full accounts were given, than of any other island...

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...m Chapter XLV I HA VE SAID already that but for the hazard of a journey to Tahiti I should doubtless never have written this book. It is thither that ... ... than others to express the vision that he saw with his mind’s eye; but in Tahiti the circumstances were favourable to him; he found in his surroundin... ...or fifteen years, and it was nine since he died. But I think my arrival at Tahiti would have driven out of my head matters of much more immediate impo... ...y suggests the approach to the golden realms of fancy than the approach to Tahiti. Murea, the sister isle, comes into view in rocky splendour, rising ... ...ur view, and nothing met your gaze but the blue loneliness of the Pacific. Tahiti is a lofty green island, with deep folds of a darker green, in which... ...the com- munion of laughter he finds himself more intol- erably alone. For Tahiti is smiling and friendly; it is like a lovely woman graciously prodig... ...olour dazzles you. 176 The Moon and Sixpence Chapter XLVI HAD NOT BEEN in Tahiti long before I met Captain Nichols. He came in one morning when I was... ...d that he was come to have a talk about him. They are as fond of gossip in Tahiti as in an English village, and one or two enquiries I had made for pi... ... game in the world. I came to know Captain Nichols very well before I left Tahiti, and I am the richer for his acquaintance. I do not consider that th...

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...on a concave arc of reef. For the cocoa-tree and the island man are both lovers and neighbours of the surf. ‘The coral waxes, the palm grows, but man ... ...chy punc- tilio, are common to both races: common to both tongues the trick of dropping medial consonants. Here is a table of two widespread Polynesia... ...ng procured me the leg- end of Rahero; and what I knew of the Cluny Macphersons, or the Appin Stewarts, enabled me to learn, and helped me to understa... ...inually varies; and the Marquesan, among the most backward and barbarous of islanders, is yet the most commodiously lodged. The grass huts of Hawaii, ... ...rest. I was told a droll instance of the force of this preoccupation. The Polynesians are subject to a disease seemingly rather of the will than of th... ...uation and loaded me with gifts. With such sentiments the necessity for child-destruction would not fail to clash, and I believe we find the trace of ... ... the whites, the change of habits, and the introduction of new maladies and vices, fully explain the depopulation, why is that depopulation not univer... ...i tribes; in many of the Paumotus a slight in- crease is to be observed; and the Samoans are to-day as healthy and at least as fruitful as before the ... ...and they begin to be dotted among deserts. So here is a case stronger still against un- chastity; and here also we have a correction to apply. What- e...

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...racious and helpful, wise and good, The Fairy Princess Moe stood. Tantira, Tahiti, Nov. 5, 1888. 19 Stevenson XXIX – TO KALAKAUA (With a present of a...

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...nnot pay for their advertisements, but on their return from New Zealand or Tahiti will do so with interest; inventors of patent punka-pulling machines...

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...d her husband to relinquish his undertaking, and together they returned to Tahiti. Not thus shy of exhibiting her charms was the Island Queen herself,... ...- ERS—REFLECTIONS—MISERABLE SUBTERFUGE OF THE FRENCH—DIGRESSION CONCERNING TAHITI—SEIZURE OF THE ISLAND BY THE ADMI- RAL—SPIRITED CONDUCT OF AN ENGLIS... ...acy. Under cover of a similar pretence, have the outrages and massacres at Tahiti the beautiful, the queen of the South Seas, been perpetrated. On thi... ...otiations were pending, and wide alarm spread over the island. Many of the Tahitians were at first disposed to resort to arms, and drive the invaders ... ...n the Sand- wich Islands, and then only of a very inferior quality, and at Tahiti does not abound to a degree that renders its fruit the principal art... ...ice of those who visit the principal groups in the Pacific. The voluptuous Tahitians are the only people who at all deserve to be com- pared with them... ... to be in this, as in other respects, directly the reverse of those of the Tahitian and Hawiian groups, where the original power of the king and chief... ...r islands of the Pacific in this respect, is worthy of being no- ticed. At Tahiti the marriage tie was altogether unknown; and the relation of husband... ...t the late rapid decrease of the population of the Sandwich Islands and of Tahiti is in part to be ascribed. The vices and diseases intro- duced among...

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...he afternoon, called on my lawyer on my way out to American Consulate, and talked till dinner time with Adams, whom I am supplying with introductions ... ...elf in if I blow the gaff on Cedarcrantz behind his back. TUESDAY . One more word about the South Seas, in answer to a question I observe I have forgo... ...on, and love, and marriage, and all the rest of it—all planted in a big South Sea plantation run by ex-English officers—a 85 V ailima Letters la Stew... ...reen leaves, his profile almost exactly Dante’s; Popo his name. He had worshipped idols in his youth; he had been full grown before the first missiona...

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... not do better. Come, Keawe, let us go to the French islands; let us go to Tahiti, as fast as ships can bear us. There we have four centimes, three ce... ... the shore among green trees, and overhead the mountains and the clouds of Tahiti, the wise island. It was judged the most wise to hire a house, which...

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...kedness of our dancing girls!—the Heeva-Heeva! Ah! low veiled, high palmed Tahiti! I still rest me on thy mat, but the soft soil has slid! I saw thee ... ...ing the sail of his best whale- boat, steered straight before the wind for Tahiti, five hundred miles distant, to procure a reinforcement to his crew.... ... for what are you bound?’ de- manded Steelkilt; ‘no lies.’ “‘I am bound to Tahiti for more men.’ “‘Very good. Let me board you a moment—I come in peac... ...rees, Steelkilt made sail again, 254 Moby Dick and in due time arrived at Tahiti, his own place of destination. There, luck befriended him; two ships... ...t arrived, and the captain was forced to enlist some of the more civilized Tahitians, who had been somewhat used to the sea. Chartering a small native... ...n surrounds the verdant land, so in the soul of man there lies one insular Tahiti, full of peace and joy, but encompassed by all the horrors of the ha... ...n riots. “Forward, there! Heave the log!” Two seamen came. The golden-hued Tahitian and the griz- zly Manxman. “Take the reel, one of ye, I’ll heave.”... ...d now the mad sea parts the log-line. But Ahab can mend all. Haul in here, Tahitian; reel up, Manxman. And look ye, let the carpenter make another log... ...e skewer seems loosening out of the middle of the world. Haul in, haul in, Tahitian! These lines run whole, and whirling out: come in broken, and drag...

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...ch and go! not taste, observe ye, else come satiety. Eh, Pagan? (Nudging.) Tahitian sailor. (Reclining on a mat.) Hail, holy nakedness of our dancing ... ...edness of our dancing girls! — the Heeva Heeva! Ah! low valed, high palmed Tahiti! I still rest me on thy mat, but the soft soil has slid! I saw thee ... ...tting the sail of his best whaleboat, steered straight before the wind for Tahiti, five hundred miles distant, to procure a reinforcement to his crew. ... ...nd for what are you bound?’ demanded Steelkilt; ‘no lies.’ “‘I am bound to Tahiti for more men.’ “‘Very good. Let me board you a moment — I come in pe... ...the cocoa nut trees, Steelkilt made sail again, and in due time arrived at Tahiti, his own place of destination. There, luck befriended him; two ships... ...t arrived, and the captain was forced to enlist some of the more civilized Tahitians, who had been somewhat used to the sea. Chartering a small native... ...n surrounds the verdant land, so in the soul of man there lies one insular Tahiti, full of peace and joy, but encom passed by all the horrors of the ... ...n riots. “Forward, there! Heave the log!” Two seamen came. The golden hued Tahitian and the grizzly Manxman. “Take the reel, one of ye, I’ll heave.” T... ...d now the mad sea parts the log line. But Ahab can mend all. Haul in here, Tahitian; reel up, Manxman. And look ye, let the carpenter make another log...

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...nnot pay for their advertisements, but on their return from New Zealand or Tahiti will do so with interest; inven- tors of patent punka-pulling machin...

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...nce of the fono seems (for the moment) to be final. The absolute chiefs of Tahiti and Hawaii were ad- dressed as plain John and Thomas; the chiefs of ... ... of fact, it was disregarded. The language had recently to borrow from the Tahitians a word for debt; while by a significant excidence, it possessed a...

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... left to the east the bewitch- ing group of the Societies and the graceful Tahiti, queen of the Pacific. I saw in the morning, some miles to the windw...

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...hat Mr. Geddie was at Mare. They were soon followed by a whale boat with a Tahitian native teacher, a Futuma man, and a crew of Anaiteans. ‘The Futuma... ...occupying the island, and poor Basset shortly after was sent a prisoner to Tahiti for refusing to receive a Roman Catholic priest. Nengone were reache... ...t when they are viewed as the offspring of En- glish mutineers and heathen Tahitians, trained by a repen- tant old sailor, they are wonderful in many ... ... law of nature that what is not progressive must be retrograde. The gentle Tahitian nature has entirely mastered the English turbulence, so that there...

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...d two marked varieties, of which, with the exception of one Helix found at Tahiti, all are peculiar to this archipelago: a single fresh-water shell (P... ...ar to this archipelago: a single fresh-water shell (Paludina) is common to Tahiti and Van Diemen’s Land. Mr. Cuming, before our voyage procured here n... ... shrubberies close to houses! 444 The V oyage of the Beagle CHAPTER XVIII TAHITI AND NEW ZEALAND Pass through the Low Archipelago — Tahiti — Aspect —... ...he survey of the Galapagos Archipelago being concluded, we steered towards Tahiti and commenced our long passage of 3200 miles. In the course of a few... ...es of that great sea, miscalled the Pacific. November 15th. — At daylight, Tahiti, an island which must for ever remain classical to the voyager in th... ... Bay, we were surrounded by canoes. This was our Sunday, but the Monday of Tahiti: if the case had been reversed, we should not have received a single... ...by the first im- pressions of a new country, and that country the charming Tahiti. A crowd of men, women, and chil- dren, was collected on the memorab... ..., keep the upper part of their bodies quite naked; and it is then that the Tahitians are seen to advantage. They are very tall, broad-shouldered, athl... ...of an Eu- ropean than his own colour. A white man bathing by the side of a Tahitian, was like a plant bleached by the gardener’s art compared with a f...

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...dertakers. The Chinago 16 The coral waxes, the palm grows, but man departs. — Tahitian proverb A H CHO did not understand French. He sat in the crowd... ... everything. The English Com pany that owned the plantation had imported into Tahiti, at great expense, the five hundred coolies. The stockholders wer... ... life to the time when he had signed the contract and set sail in the ship for Tahiti. Times had been hard in his sea coast village, and when he inde... ... earnings, and only two years more intervened between the cotton plantation on Tahiti and the meditation and repose that awaited him. But just now he ... ... died. But the Chinese had not complained to the French devils that ruled over Tahiti. It was their own lookout. Schemmer was their problem. They must... ... sunstroke, as the doctor’s certifi cate attested. True, in all the history of Tahiti no one had ever died of sunstroke. But it was that, precisely th... ...aid, or else one more failure would be added to the long history of failure in Tahiti. There was no understanding these white devils. Ah Cho pon dere... ..., the Court said finally, for they must learn that the law would be fulfilled in Tahiti though the heavens fell. The five Chinagos were taken back to jai... ...iend.” Schemmer was pleased at the praise. “Come on, Ah Chow,” he said, in the Tahitian tongue. “But I am not Ah Chow — “ Ah Cho began. “Shut up!” was...

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... toil and suffering, the captain, with the other boats’ crews, had reached Tahiti, whence they had made their way home. “Oh, Margaret, Margaret!” crie...