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...amehameha Schools Press. Many contributed to make its publication possible. A group of Hawaiian scholars was first selected by the trustees of Bishop Museum to translate Kamakau's florid literary style into readable English. The group included Mary Kawena Pukui, Thomas G. Thrum, Lahilahi Webb, Emma Davidson Taylor, and John Wise. Mary Kawena Pukui then reviewed the entire ...

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... 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 Hawaii through wars. The kingdom became his because of his humbleness and because of the prowess of his adopted (hookama) sons and his care of the god Ku-kaili-moku. Umi was of lowly birth (lepo popolo) [on his m...

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...ird edition was reorganized, designed, and produced by Barbara Pope Book Design. Clyde Imada of the Department of Natural Sciences / Botany at Bishop Museum updated the scientific nomenclature and other information about plants. Chieko Tachihata, Curator of the Hawaiian Collection at Hamilton Library, University of Hawaii at Manoa, updated the Suggested Reading section. W...

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...the Hawaiian islands were divided into political regions. The four mokupuni (larger islands) of Kauai, Oahu, Maui, and Hawaii were divided into moku (districts). The smaller islands of Molokai, Lanai and Kahoolawe became moku of Maui and Niihau a moku of Kauai. For ease in collecting annual tribute the moku were subdivided into ahupuaa, land sections that usually extended ...

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...tle Between Umi and the Chiefs of Hilo—His ictory and the Joining of Hilo -- 222 -- How Umi Lied in Humble Circumstances -- 186 -- Umi Conquers Other Districts -- 226 -- Relating to Nunu and Kakohe -- 190 -- The Family of Umi—His Beneficent Reign -- 228 -- How Umi Became King of Hawaii -- 204 -- Death of Umi—His Body Taken and Secreted by Koi -- 232 -- Relating to the Trip...

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...the Party is Provided with Food—After Four Months They Prepare to Embark -- 108 -- Legend of Palila -- 136 -- Departure from Molokai—Names of the Six Districts of Hawaii—The King Desires Kuapakaa to Accompany Him—The Boy Consents Conditionally—Setting out they meet with Cold, Adverse Winds—The Sailing-masters Fall Overboard -- 118 -- Legend of Puniakaia -- 154 -- At Death ...

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...g as she was, she listened with deep interest and felt herself a part of the life of the early days. Later, as a translator for Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum, she enlarged her knowledge. I hope this book will kindle in boys and girls, and in interested adults, the feeling which Mrs. Pukui has passed on to me about life in old Hawaii and will increase their respect for the w...

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... With the Birdcatchers. 127 -- The Baby is Named. 127 -- The Consecration. 129 -- On the Way. 131 -- Life in the Forest. 137 -- Birdcatching in Other Districts. 138 -- The Great Surprise. 140 -- Canoemaking. 143 -- Palani Fishing. 143 -- Hauling. 146 -- The Moo of Nuuanu. 148 -- Pupils of Linohau. 151 -- In the Upland. 154 -- By the Sea. 158 -- The Consecration. 160 -- An ...

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...e Soviet Union with a youth hostel group. Some in the group knew about the Museum of Religion and Atheism. The Intourist guide said it didn‘t exist, ... ...ttempt to prove that atheism was true. He said that when they entered the museum they first saw pictures of primitives worshiping gods in volcanoes ... ... ―I went to Leningrad and Moscow in the mid-80s to look for the museum. All of the exhibits on atheism had been removed. And I understand ... ...equired by other governmental agencies. Cut culture—the orchestras, zoos, museums. But keep the limos for the city council members. Just cut health... ...ies had died out. Saber tooth cats and Tyrannosaurus Rex now only inhabit museums. ―Let us look at the beginnings of evolutionary thinking. S... ...le state votes for its senators, but for the House of Representatives the districts can be skewed or gerrymandered so that some districts become ‗sa...

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... Type: Communist state Capital: Tirane Administrative divisions: 26 rrethet (districts) Legal system: based on constitution adopted in 1976; judicial ... ...divisions: 31 wilayas (departments or provinces); 160 dairat (administrative districts); 691 communes Legal system: based on French and Is- lamic law,... ...icials called verguers Capital: Andorra la Vella Administrative divisions: 7 districts Legal system: based on French and Span- ish civil codes; Plan o... ...er 1986 Capital: Dhaka Administrative divisions: 4 divisions, 21 regions, 64 districts, 495 thanas (rural townships consisting of 4,472 unions or vill... ...; a member of the Commonwealth Capital: Belmopan Administrative divisions: 6 districts Legal system: English law Branches: bicameral legislature (Nati... ...m sale of Vatican postage stamps and tourist mementos, fees for admission to museums, and sale of publications; industrial activity consists solely of...

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...ed among the capulidoe, so one of the dinner contingent, an employe at the Museum, who had a pretty wit of his own. Poiret was an eagle, a gentleman, ... ...as alive, and seemed capable of feeling; while Father Goriot (to quote the Museum official again) was invariably at zero de- grees—Reaumur. Eugene de ... ...him best, and form some idea of the treasures con- tained in galleries and museums. At this stage of his career a student grows eager and excited abou... ...among the boarders. “Well, Monsieur-r-r Poiret,” said the employe from the Museum, “how is your health-orama?” Then, without wait- ing for an answer, ... ... it should be frozenrama.” “No, it shouldn’ t,” said the official from the Museum; “frozerama is right by the same rule that you say ‘My feet are froz... ...it of country subscribers; for it brought the morning news into provincial districts twenty-four hours sooner than the ordinary local journals. “There...

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...vidualities, and Plato turned his back on truth when he turned towards his museum of spe- cific ideals. Heraclitus, that lost and misinterpreted giant... ...the utmost the payment of a small redemption. A horse, perhaps, in certain districts, or a bicycle, or any such mechanical conveyance personally used,... ...is done as unwilling charity by administrators who are often, in the rural districts at least, competing for low-priced labour, and who regard want of... ...Touring Club de France, my green ticket to the Reading Room of the British Museum, and my Lettre d’Indication from the London and County Bank. A fooli... ...offer the card of the T .C.F . I follow up that blow with my green British Museum ticket, as tattered as a flag in a knight’s chapel. “You’ll get foun... ...rld of to-day, or the cataloguing of such libraries as that of the British Museum, or such collections as that of the insects in Cromwell Road. Such a... ...ld look like a barbarian tricked out with the miscellaneous plun- der of a museum. Boys and girls wear much the same sort of costume—brown leather sho...

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... prelude. The prophetic type will steadfastly refuse to see the world as a museum; it will insist that here is a stage set for a drama that perpetuall... ...ion to admit the 112 What Is Coming? claims of Roumania to the Wallachian districts of T ransylvania. Evidently the urgent need to create kingdoms or... ...also has possessions of this type in Central Africa and the less civilised districts of India, but Russia has scarcely anything of the sort. In this s... ...r Gothic cathe- drals for us. They put our dearest racial possessions into museums and admire them very much indeed. They teach our young men to fly k...

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...head and twenty million arms, is at work perpetually; crouching in country districts, intrenched in municipal councils, un- der arms in the national g... ...ow their tongues would maul him!” As he had never seen an otter, even in a museum, he was delighted with this episode of his early walk. “Come,” said ... ...’s white on its back; for the sub-prefect told me there wasn’t one o’ them museums that had the like; but he knows everything, our sub-prefect,— no fo... ...oner of legal papers, when- ever the Sieur Brunet came to draw them in the districts of Cerneux, Conches, and Blangy. Vermichel and Fourchon, allied b... ...e average; and T onsard kept half for his own traffic. In all wine-growing districts the gleaning of the large 43 Balzac vineyards gives a good perqu... ...became habitual in this valley, and soon existed as a right throughout the districts of Blangy, Conches, and Cerneux, all adjacent to the domain of Le... ... Balzac throughout France and Switzerland. Among the Jura, and in the wild districts trodden only by a few special tourists, the innkeepers call it, o... ...ities talked of devoting the second floor of the town hall to the “Gourdon Museum,” after the collector’s death. “I rely upon the gratitude of my fell...

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...them “plots”—against the poor. Y ou can still see how we figured it in any museum by look- ing up the caricatures of capital and labor that adorned th... ...l find if you care to look for them, in out-of-the-way corners of our book museums, the shriveled cheap publications—the publi- cations of the Rationa... ... small details as in great, the unanalyzable tangle of wards and vestries, districts and municipalities, counties, states, boards, and nations, the in... ...y a few carefully disinfected types and vestiges of that remain now in our museums. One writes now with a peculiar horror of the dress of the old worl...

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... accommodated, as the spectators usually are, in one of those locomo tive museums of penny wonders; and the ladies being partitioned off by a red cur... ...at things to be seen there. When I told him of that chamber in the British Museum wherein are preserved household memorials of a race that ceased to b... ...on all the passengers they inveigle, are constantly travelling about those districts where poverty and discontent are rife, and tempting the credu lo... ...resumption that the character of the parties concerned was formed in slave districts, and brutalised by slave customs. ‘HORRIBLE TRAGEDY. ‘By a slip f... ...ting evidences of the state of society which exists in and about the slave districts of America before them, can they have a doubt of the real conditi...

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...n- ers of Patents. Here is, in accordance with the name of the building, a museum of models of all patents taken out. I wandered through it, gazing wi... ...ure that name of Romanesque which it has assumed. The building is used for museums and lectures, and was given to the city by one James Smithsonian, a... ...imore is as strong now as ever it was. And it is equally strong in certain districts of the State—in those districts which are most akin to Virginia i... ...ates, such as New York, Pennsylvania, and Illinois, being divided into two districts. Each district has one district court, presided over by one judge... ... there. Above these dis- trict courts are the National circuit courts, the districts or States having been grouped into circuits as the counties are g... ...e world by which men are daily surrounded in their own homes and their own districts. As to such subjects Congress can make no law, and over them Cong... ...ance of religion as is to be found in some of our manufacturing and mining districts, and also, alas! in some of our agri- 334 North America V ol. 2 ...

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...f industry are displayed, to the Cape of the Madeleine; in the least muddy districts of the citizen quarters, between No. 30 and No. 130 of the Rue du... ...rom- ise. The costly toys of fashion lie about, but not so as to suggest a museum or a curiosity shop. You will find her sit- ting by the fire in a lo...

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...y; “I recognize this Hobbema.” “Ah, indeed!” “Yes; it was proposed for the Museum.” “Which, I believe, does not contain one?” said Monte Cristo. “No; ... ...another, where thrift bestows its dead and labels them like specimens in a museum; all that was visible within the bronze gates was a gloomy-looking r... ...ld comrades had given him the recipe, he intended, by following the wooded districts, to reach the nearest frontier, walking by night and sleeping in ... ...o are always to be found in Rome at the doors of banking-houses, churches, museums, or theatres. With the Frenchman, the man who had followed him ente...

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... gallery lit by many side windows. At the first glance I was reminded of a museum. The tiled floor was thick with dust, and a remarkable array of misc... ...urther in the gallery was the huge skeleton bar- rel of a Brontosaurus. My museum hypothesis was confirmed. Going towards the side I found what appear... ...ch, and * It may be, of course, that the floor did not slope, but that the museum was built into the side of a hill.-ED. 59 H G Wells only a narrow l... ... when it is focused by dewdrops, as is sometimes the case in more tropical districts. Lightning may blast and blacken, but it rarely gives rise to wid...

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...r’s younger days there used to be a wax figure of him in one of the Boston museums, representing a solemn, dark visaged person, in a minister’s black ... ... the inhabitants, as well of the above named district as of all the other Districts, both old men and young men, as well as all the lads of ten years... ...remptorily his Majesty’s orders that the whole French inhabitants of these Districts be removed; and I am, through his Majesty’s goodness, directed to...

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...es. For fifty weeks together, it is no more than a show for tourists and a museum of old furniture; but on the fifty-first, behold the palace reawaken... ...so easily appreciated where they dwelt! And this is not only so in country districts where the shep- herd must wade in the snow all day after his floc...

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...sgow and its de- pendencies (Paisley, Greenock, &c.), supported by similar districts, and by turbulent collieries in other parts of that kingdom, make... ...ade into an unguent by suitable liquors. The modern Grecian women, in some districts, as Sonnini tells us, use the spine of the sea- polypus, calcined... ...the shepherds’ encampments, scat- tered on the face of the less cultivated districts, with the settle- ments of the same kind whose concerns are so fr... ...ointed guardians;’ they do not limit themselves to defensive war: ‘in many districts they are in the habit of rushing from a considerable distance to ... ...e overgrowth into forms of nature—yet in Athens only is there a great open museum of such monuments. The Athenian buildings, though none of them Homer... ...of any kind, or else, as in the more exclusively agricultural and pastoral districts, is looked up to by the peasantry with blind feelings of reverenc...