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...Among the outstanding achievements of the Hawaiian people was their skill in building a wide variety of efficient and well-crafted canoes. Distinguished scholar Dr. Donald D. Kilolani Mitchell cites the Hawaiian canoe as being a "cultural peak" in the history of Hawaii. Hawaiian Canoe-Building Traditions was created to highlight this particular "cultura...

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...important role in Hawaii's history and traditional lifestyle. When the early settlers migrated from Kahiki to Hawaii, they journeyed by double-hulled canoes (waa kaulua). Upon their arrival, they continued to build and use canoes for work, travel, and play. Having found an abundance of very tall and large koa trees (scientific name: Acacia koa) in the islands, the settler...

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...ion. 3 -- Felling. 9 -- Hewing. 15 -- Hauling. 19 -- Finishing. 25 -- Consecration and Launching. 33 -- Tools. 39 -- Parts of a Canoe. 47 -- Types of Canoes. 57 -- Contemporary Hawaiian Sailing Canoes. 63 -- Summary. 83 -- Suggested Reading List. 85 -- Suggested Audio-Visual Resources. 86 -- Additional Resources. 86 --...

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...n 30 years ago, reviving their sailing culture. Courtesy of Polynesian Voyaging Society This map of the Pacific Ocean charts the route of the sailing canoes Hokulea and Alingano Maisu to Satawal, the home atoll of Mau Piailug....

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...t Pacific, out of the Hawaiian Islands, of the gods Papa of Earth and Wakea of Water, forged by the fire goddess Pele, came the double-hulled sailing canoes Hokulea and Alingano Maisu. Mai na Koolau Mai Hawaii pae aina Ma o Papa me Wakea Ma o Pele ka wahine a ka lua Eia mai na waa kaulua O Hokulea laua O Alingano Maisu Saengi eotiwaefangin Pacific Sangi faniuwaen Hawaii Fa...

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... Bring Him Pakaa—Pakaa Demands Full Restitution First—The King Agrees, and on Pakaa's Arrival Gives Him the Whole of Hawaii -- 128 -- Swamping of the Canoes—They Return to Molokai and Land—The King is Given Dry Apparel, Awa and Food—Storm-bound, the Party is Provided with Food—After Four Months They Prepare to Embark -- 108 -- Legend of Palila -- 136 -- Departure from Molo...

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...ha Prepares for War on Maui. 239 -- Kamehameha Lands at Hana and Asks after the Adze, ‘Olopu. 242 -- Victory at Pu‘ukoa‘e and the Battle of the Great Canoes. 245 -- Kamehameha Lands at Kahului. 249 -- Drink of the Bitter Waters of ‘Iao. 252 -- Battle at Wailuku and Kalanikupule Flees. 256 -- The Dammed Water of ‘Iao. 258 -- Kikane Delivers Message to Kahekili on O‘ahu. 261...

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...ha Prepares for War on Maui. 239 -- Kamehameha Lands at Hana and Asks after the Adze, ‘Olopu. 242 -- Victory at Pu‘ukoa‘e and the Battle of the Great Canoes. 245 -- Kamehameha Lands at Kahului. 249 -- Drink of the Bitter Waters of ‘Iao. 252 -- Battle at Wailuku and Kalanikupule Flees. 256 -- The Dammed Water of ‘Iao. 258 -- Kikane Delivers Message to Kahekili on O‘ahu. 261...

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...t and penetrated to the uttermost reaches of a northern empire the size of Europe. But it was fur these explorers were seeking when they pushed their canoes up the Saskatchewan, crossed the Rocky Mountains, went down the Columbia. Fur, not glory, was the quest when the dog bells went ringing over the wintry wastes from Saskatchewan to Athabaska, across the Barren Lands, an...

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... Traitor's Head 455- 464 CHAPTER XLV. Among the New Caledonians. -- A fleet of canoes visits Cook -- Character of the natives -- Houses and boats of t... ...people of Nootka Sound -- A trade that was profitable to both -- Surrounded by canoes -- A visit to a Nootka village -- Appearance of the interior of ... ...1 Crowning of Drake by the King of California............................. 365 Canoes of the Pelew Islanders............................................. ... of Booton....................................................... 372 Javanese Canoes......................................................... 373 Que... ..., however, robust and swarthy, with long hair and rough beards. They had large canoes, and being extremely brave and armed with lances of cane, Saaved... ...accordingly anchored off shore, where, for the time, he would be secure, as no canoes were near in which the natives might reach his boats. When morni... ...pon the lake were seen floating fragments of every character, including broken canoes and bloated bodies. Four thousand of the Spanish allies had give... ...ons laid in, barricades erected on the several causeways, and a large fleet of canoes built to co-operate with the land forces, their use having been ... ...is great disadvantage, sent against them a flotilla of more than three hundred canoes, each manned by twelve natives armed with bows and arrows, think...

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...ional knowledge they gained from observing the stars to steer oceangoing canoes across the vast Pacifc. Today, scientists take advantage of Hawai‘... ...of enthusiasts in Hawai‘i and around the Pacifc. In Hawai‘i, outrigger canoes made of koa are powered by six paddlers, who launch through the su...

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...s, legs, feet, wanted to return to the woods, the prairie, the barns, the canoes, the plantations. As I write down these words my hands are not stea...

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... from 4.2 m to 7 m can navigate many of the principal waterways while native canoes navigate upper reaches Ports: 1 major (Paramaribo), 6 minor Civil ...

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...cing its infinite beauty; we decided to take shortcuts… by using tools, axes, canoes: easy ways out of any kind of hardship. Instead of living in Na... ...dden by leaves, behind bushes, behind mountains, under rocks, etc. What if canoes had never been invented? How much more would have we been force...

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...e only to follow his own travels alongside of mine. R.L.S. ! " # ! E MADE A GREAT STIR in Antwerp Docks. A ste- vedore and a lot of dock por... ...er her. A steamer was com- ing down, men on the paddle-box shouted hoarse warn- ings, the stevedore and his porters were bawling from the quay. But in... ...he shores were closely lined by canal boats waiting their turn at the lock. Nowhere was there any convenient landing-place; nowhere so much as a stabl... ...lly greeted by English Protestants when they came across the Channel out of great tribulation. But after all, what religion knits people so closely as... ...should travel by train across the frontier, boats and all. Fifty-five locks in a day’s journey was pretty well tantamount to trudging the whole distan... ...It seemed to be inhabited principally by sol- diers and bagmen; at least, these were all that we saw, ex- cept the hotel servants. We had to stay ther... ...one arm. I was as nearly home-sick as ever I was in my life; they seemed to make it such an incalculable distance to the place where I first saw the d... ...d been deafening us for the last hundred yards with petitions for a sail; ay, and they deafened us to the same tune next morning when we came to start... ... ) #" HE CIGARETTE RETURNED with good news. There were beds to be had some ten minutes’ walk from where we were, at a place called...

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...crowd of people collected on the spot, preparatory to the departure of the canoes. In the first place there was the commandant of the fort, to whom th... ...n, but that turn of the hand was too strong. Had the anxious master of the canoes been but a thought less anxious, all might have been well; but, as i... ...incapable of further effort. It was then that the German, the owner of the canoes, who had fought his way with great efforts across the violence of th...

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...mmediately prepared to come away with him. Their first business was to get canoes; and in this they were obliged not to stick so much upon the honesty... ...f it, but to trespass upon their friendly savages, and to borrow two large canoes, or periaguas, on pretence of going out a-fishing, or for pleasure. ... ... seen the sav- ages all together in one body, and at a distance from their canoes, they were resolved, if there had been a hundred of them, to attack ... ...isoners, which was done. The residue of the conquered people fled to their canoes, and got off to sea; the victors retired, made no pursuit, or very l... ...same day, about three o’clock in the afternoon, they also marched to their canoes. And thus the Spaniards had the is- land again free to themselves, t... ...or fear of being discovered), they were surprised with seeing about twenty canoes of Indians just coming on shore. They made the best of their way hom... ... be starved; but if the Spaniards would give them leave to take one of the canoes which they came over in, and give them arms and ammunition proportio... ...n of the story was this: Early one morning there came on shore five or six canoes of Indians or savages, call them which you please, and there is no r... ...hich was, in the end, the desolation of almost the whole colony. After the canoes with the savages were gone off, the Spaniards peeped abroad again; a...

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...f Chinese carpenters, the new jetty round which were clustered the trading canoes, he felt a sudden elation in the thought that the world was his. But... ...ene on the river bank, his little daughter by his side. Now the up-country canoes glided past the little rotten wharf of Lingard and Co., to paddle up... ...orous manner. Even Lakamba came out of his stockade in a great pomp of war canoes and red umbrel- las, and landed on the rotten little jetty of Lingar... ...tow of the steam launch, threading their way cautiously amongst a crowd of canoes filled with gaily dressed Malays. The officer in command listened gr... ...s to the feverish activity displayed by Almayer’s boatmen in repairing old canoes ceased to interfere with the due discharge of domestic duties by the... ...and great floods making the river al- most impossible of ascent for native canoes. Almayer, strolling along the muddy beach between his houses, watche... ...ach, with its shimmering surface dotted by the black specks of the fishing canoes, lay before his eyes. The fishermen seemed to be racing. Babalatchi ... ...erlooking his Arab clerks and the men loading and unloading the up-country canoes. Reshid, who was busy on the jetty, was summoned into his uncle’s pr... ...he touch of invisible hands gathering the fruit. On the calm water several canoes moored to a heavy stake were crowded together, nearly bridging the d...

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...s niece had embarked for their long and adventurous journey was one of the canoes of bark which the Indians are in the habit of constructing, and whic... ...en. “The boy is right,” rejoined Pathfinder, laughing in Mabel’s face, the canoes being now so near that they almost touched; “he is sartainly right. ... ...glorious.” Mabel rewarded the scout with a smile, which served to keep the canoes together for some time longer; for the sight of youth and beauty was... ... when you are mistrustful of Mingos.” “But we have little to fear now. The canoes move swiftly, and two hours, you have said, will carry us down to th... ...d. V ery little exertion was required on the part of those who managed the canoes, except in those places where the swift- ness of the current and the... ...ciously selected a spot where the river flowed tranquilly to intercept the canoes, in order to make his communication with- out hazard to those he wis... ...ourse, and that is a very nice one. We are judgmatically placed here, both canoes being hid by the high bank and the bushes, from all eyes, ex- cept t... ...vement did not require haste, and it was made leisurely and with care. The canoes were got clear of the bushes, then suffered to drop 44 The Pathfind... ... itself, within a few yards of the point they had just passed; and the two canoes glided into it, under the impul- sion of the paddles. A better spot ...

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...esbyterian Mission, who had done much towards improving the natives. Small canoes soon began to come off to the vessel, little craft consisting of no ... ...s, and the vessel kept a mile from the shore, and was soon surrounded with canoes, one of them containing a native who had been instructed in Samoa, a... ...islands on our way back from the north, but at present we only dodge a few canoes, &c. ‘July 20.—I suppose you like to know all little things, so I te... ...far fallen away as to be unwill- 149 Yo n g e ing to meet the Bishop. The canoes here were remarkably beautiful, built of several pieces, fastened wi... .... Walking up the beach, they found a place in the bush with nine beautiful canoes, with nets, and large wooden hooks in them, but at first no people; ... ... them, but at first no people; and they were leaving their presents in the canoes when Patteson spied two men, and advanced to them while the Bishop w... ... Here a visit was paid to Iri’s boathouse, which contained three exquisite canoes, beautifully inlaid; then to his house, long, low, and open at the e... ...ar, was reached, a fine mountainous island, with a detached reef. Numerous canoes surrounded the vessel, bringing yarns for barter. Fish-hooks were of... ...l, as the lovely scenery of Santa Cruz rose on him. The people came out in canoes with quantities of yams and taro, of which they knew the full value;...

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... Coast, where whole Nations of Negroes were sure to surround us with their Canoes, and destroy us; where we could ne’er once go on shoar but we should... ...ater. I did not care to go out of Sight of the Boat, fearing the coming of Canoes with Savages down the River; but the Boy seeing a low Place about a ... ...ite Labour, made a hollow Place in it, as the Indians in Brasil make their Canoes. After this, I made a great heavy Pestle or Beater, of the Wood call... ...ges of the main Land over against me, who had wander’d out to Sea in their Canoes; and either driven by the Currents, or by contrary Winds had made th... ...e: I should easily have known, that nothing was more frequent than for the Canoes from the Main, when they happen’d to be a little too far out at Sea,... ...of the Island for Harbour; likewise as they often met, and fought in their Canoes, the Victors having taken any Prisoners, would bring them over to th... ...ad brought with them, whether alive or dead I could not know. They had two Canoes with them, which they had haled up upon the Shore; and as it was the... ...pace, being so loaden with Arms as I was) I perceiv’d there had been three Canoes more of Savages on that Place; and looking out farther, I saw they w... ...I was sure to have them come back again, with perhaps two or three hundred Canoes with them, in a few Days, and then I knew what to expect. However, I...

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... — called out, ‘Savages!’ All was now expectation. Presently fifteen hundred canoes, each paddled by twenty savages, were seen advancing in excellent ... ...other commanders if their precautions — but let us not anticipate. When the canoes arrived at the beach, the darkness of the “Holiday Romance” Char...

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...in the course of a week or two, obtain enough to load one of the large sea-canoes. Cocoa-nut oil is now manufactured in different parts of the South S... ...se waters I had a hundred times bathed. In an instant, palm-trees and elms—canoes and skiffs—church spires and bamboos—all mingled in one vision of th... ...Hence, in old voyages we read of chiefs coming off from the shore in their canoes, and going through with strange antics, expres- sive of the desire. ... ...ngs. However, it could not be helped; and so we went. But a word about the canoes before we go any further. Among the Society Islands, the art of buil... ...here was at Tahiti a royal fleet of seventeen hundred and twenty large war canoes, handsomely carved, and other- wise adorned. At present, those used ... ...s. So far as doing any work is concerned, it is scrupulously observed. The canoes are hauled up on the beach; the nets are spread to dry. Passing by t... ...he island, preferring rather to sail round to an opposite village in their canoes. Tonoi abounded in bullock stories; most of which, by the bye, had a... ...ing the houses and trees just as they stood along its banks. Several small canoes, moored here and there to posts in the water, were dancing upon the ... ...margin. Close by was a little cove, walled in with coral, where a fleet of canoes was dancing up and down. A few paces distant, on a natural ter- race...