 | William Ellis - 1826 - 476 Seiten
...Tamehameha went, attended by a large retinue of chiefs and priests, and, as the most valuable offering he could make, cut off part of his own hair, which...supposed interest with the deities of the volcanoes. In several places they observed that the sea rushes with violence twenty or thirty yards along the... | |
 | William Ellis - 1827 - 542 Seiten
...Tamehamea went, attended by a large retinue of chiefs and priests, and, as the most valuable offering he could make, cut off part of his own hair, which...supposed interest with the deities of the volcanoes. In several places they observed that the sea rushes with violence twenty or thirty yards along the... | |
 | William Ellis - 1831 - 520 Seiten
...Tamehameha, went, attended by a large retinue of chiefs and priests, and, as the most valuable offering he could make, cut off part of his own hair, which...gods, it was thought, were satisfied; and the king increased his influence over the minds of the people, who, from this circumstance, attributed their... | |
 | William Ellis - 1833 - 362 Seiten
...Tamehameha, went, attended by a large retinue of chiefs and priests, and, as the most valuable offering he could make, cut off part of his own hair, which...gods, it was thought, were satisfied ; and the king increased his influence over the minds of the people, who, from this circumstance, attributed their... | |
 | Henry Theodore Cheever - 1851 - 446 Seiten
...Kamehameha the Great went to it with a company of chiefs and priests, and, as the most valuable offering he could make, cut off part of his own hair, which...degree of influence over the minds of the people, who attributed their escape from destruction to his supposed interest with the deities of the volcano.... | |
 | James Jackson Jarves - 1872 - 276 Seiten
...reached the point that forms the northern boundary of the bay, on the eastern side of which Kailua is situated. It runs three or four miles into the...escape from threatened destruction to his supposed influence with the deities of the volcanoes." OLD ERUPTIONS ON MAUNA LOA. I. 1789. — " The first... | |
 | Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum - 1909 - 404 Seiten
...Kamehatneha, went attended by a large retinue of chiefs and priests, and, as the most valuable offering he could make, cut off part of his own hair, which...to flow. The gods, it was thought, were satisfied. To this eruption is referred the sad story, often told to travelers by the natives, of the death of... | |
 | Alexander Hume Ford, George Mellen - 1914 - 662 Seiten
...Kamehameha, went attended by a large retinue of chiefs and priests, and, as the most valuable offering he could make, cut off part of his own hair, which...to flow. The gods, it was thought, were satisfied. To this eruption is referred the sad story, often told to travelers by the natives, of the death of... | |
 | George Alexander Wilken - 1912 - 600 Seiten
...von Priestern und Hauptlingen, nach der Statte des Unheils, „and, as the most valuable offering hè could make, cut off part of his own hair, which was...considered sacred, and threw it into the torrent" I0lb). Aus den angeführten Beispielen sehen wir, wie allgemein verbreitet die Sitte ist, durch Mittel... | |
 | William Drake Westervelt - 1916 - 282 Seiten
...flowing lava, attended by a large retinue of chiefs and priests, and as the most valuable offering he could make, cut off part of his own hair which...always considered sacred and threw it into the torrent. In a day or two the lava ceased to flow. The gods, it was thought, were satisfied. The people attributed... | |
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Tamehameha went, attended by a large retinue of chiefs and priests, and, as the most valuable offering he could make, cut off part of his own hair, which was always considered sacred, and threw it into the torrent. A day or two after, the lava ceased... 
