The Hawaiian Archipelago: Six Months Among the Palm Groves, Coral Reefs, & Volcanoes of the Sandwich IslandsJohn Murray, 1875 - 473 páginas |
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Página 425 - We will return no more ;" And all at once they sang, " Our island home Is far beyond the wave; we will no longer roam.
Página 458 - It is no small thing to say of the missionaries of the American Board, that in less than forty years they have taught this whole people to read and write, to cipher and to sew. They have given them an alphabet, grammar and dictionary; preserved their language from extinction; given it a literature and translated into it the Bible, and works of devotion, science and entertainment, etc.
Página 370 - Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is now perished : neither have they any more a portion for ever in anything that is done under the sun...
Página 184 - Jehovah is my God. He kindled these fires. I fear not Pele. If I perish by the anger of Pele, then you may fear the power of Pele ; but if I trust in Jehovah, and he shall save me from the wrath of Pele when I break through her tabus, then you must fear and serve the Lord Jehovah. All the gods of Hawaii are vain.
Página 85 - The movement was nearly always from the sides to the centre, but the movement of the centre itself appeared independent, and always took a southerly direction. Before each outburst of agitation there was much hissing, and a throbbing internal roaring, as of imprisoned gases. Now it seemed furious, demoniacal, as if no power on earth could bind it ; then playful and sportive ; then for a second languid, but only because it was accumulating fresh force. On our arrival, eleven...
Página 84 - It is unimaginable, indescribable, a sight to remember for ever, a sight which at once took possession of every faculty of sense and soul, removing one altogether out of the range of ordinary life. Here was the real "bottomless pit"— the "fire which is not quenched"— "the place of hell"— "the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone"— the "everlasting burnings"— the fiery sea whose waves are never weary.
Página 459 - ... years they have taught this whole people to read and to write, to cipher and to sew. They have given them an alphabet, grammar, and dictionary; preserved their language from extinction; given it a literature, and translated into it the Bible and works of devotion, science and entertainment, etc., etc.
Página 184 - Pele, here are your ohelos: I offer some to you, some I. also eat." Several of them told us, as they turned round from the crater, that after such acknowledgments they might eat the fruit with] security.
Página 83 - Suddenly, just above and in front of us, gory drops were tossed in the air, and springing forwards, we stood on the brink of Hale-mau-mau, which was about thirty-five feet below us. I think we all screamed. I know we all wept; but we were speechless, for a new glory and terror had been added to the earth. It is the most unutterable of wonderful things. The words of...
Página 415 - At one time the jets, after long playing at a height of three hundred feet, suddenly became quite low, and for a few seconds there were cones of fire wallowing in a sea of light: then, with a roar like the sound of gathering waters, nearly the whole surface of the lake was lifted up, by the action of some powerful internal force, and its whole radiant mass rose three times in one glorious upward burst, to' a height, as estimated by the surrounding cliffs, of six hundred feet. After this the fountain...