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...th elder kama?aina ranging in age from their late 60s to late 90s. The interviews document personal knowledge of fisheries of all the major Hawaiian Islands (Hawai?i to Ni?ihau), and also touch on the fisheries of Nihoa and the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands of the archipelago....

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... Ka Hana Paakai (Salt Making); -- And Deified Sharks:-Oral History Interview With Kupuna- Valentine K. Ako,-Margie Kaholo-Kailianu, David Keakealani, Caroline Keukealani-Pereira,-Arthur "Aka" Mahi, Joseph Puipui Makaai, Rose Pilipi-Maeda,-And Family Members With Kepa Maly December 7, 1996. 43 -- C. Arthur Lyman-Waiopae And Kapoho Region Fisheries-Oral History Interview Of ...

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Excerpt: An Outcast of the Islands by Joseph Conrad.

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... PENN S TATE E LECTRONIC C LASSICS S ERIES P UBLICATION An Outcast of the Islands by Joseph Conrad is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer-... ... for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. An Outcast of the Islands by Joseph Conrad, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Cla... ...ity is an equal opportunity university. 3 Joseph Conrad An Outcast of the Islands by Joseph Conrad Pues el delito mayor Del hombre es haber nacito Ca... ...pium cases. It’s for to-night. Use my own boatmen. Transship them from the Caroline to the Arab barque,” went on the mas- ter in his hoarse undertone.... ...father’s hands the many threads of a business that was spread over all the Archipelago: from Sumatra to New Guinea, from Batavia to Palawan. Very soon... ...fact was acquired to the floating wisdom of the South Seas, of the Eastern Archipelago, and was nowhere better understood than in out-of-the-way nooks...

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...Life of John Coleridge Patteson: Missionary Bishop of the Melanesian Islands By Charlotte Mary Yonge A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Pub... ...tion Life of John Coleridge Patteson: Missionary Bishop of the Melanesian Islands by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Un... ... way. Life of John Coleridge Patteson: Missionary Bishop of the Melanesian Islands by Charlotte M. Yonge, the Pennsylvania State University, Electroni... ...bjected to the probation of a return before bap- tism, but were christened Caroline and Sarah, after Mrs. Abraham and Mrs. Selwyn. Another very satisf... ...attempt at clothing. Here several passengers were taken in. The two girls, Caroline Wabisane and Sarah Wasitutru, were both married—Caroline to a Maor... ...hristian Nengonese to possess the power of striking men dead by his curse. Caroline, Kainwhat and Kowine were the children of a terrible old chief nam... ...for three or four months, and we long to get hold of pupils from the Banks Archipelago, Santa Cruz, Espiritu Santo, in which no ground is broken at pr... ...e Solomon Islands to the Marquesas, with the excep- tion of the Santa Cruz archipelago. We have been there two or three times, but the people are so v... ...g home; not, as usual, beating up in the open water between the Santa Cruz archipelago, Banks Islands and New Hebrides to the east, and New Caledonia ...

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...h. I chartered accordingly Dr. Merrit’s schooner yacht, the Casco, seventy-four tons register; sailed from San Fran- cisco towards the end of June 188... ...old life of the house and sick-room, I set forth to leeward in a trading schooner, the Equator, of a little over seventy tons, spent four months among... ...ss readers from the uttermost parts of the sea. That I should thus have reversed the verdict of Lord Tennyson’s hero is less eccentric than appears. F... ...ldren had the utmost difficulty or reluctance to learn French, they picked up English on the wayside, and as if by accident. On one of the most out-of... ...ir of weight. I take the average missionary; I am sure I do him no more than justice when I suppose that he would hesitate to bombard a village, even ... .... CHAPTER IX—THE HOUSE OF TEMOANA THE HISTORY OF THE MARQUESAS IS, of late years, much con- fused by the coming and going of the French. At least twic... ... Tai-o-hae as a kind of Minister of Public Works; and the daughter of Stanislao is High Chiefess of the southern island of Tauata. These, then, are th... ...mmy, even in the making, was as little feared. In the Marquesas, on the extreme coast, it was made by the household with con- tinual unction and expos... ...; communication is by accident; where you may have designed to go is one thing, where you shall be able to arrive another. It was my hope, for instanc...

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...arts of the sea round the Aleutian, Kulammak, and 5 Jules Verne Umgullich islands, have never exceeded the length of sixty yards, if they attain that... ...hat it was better to remain in deep water, and keep clear of continents or islands, which the beast itself seemed to shun (perhaps because there was n... ...). The frigate passed at some distance from the Marquesas and the Sandwich Islands, crossed the tropic of Cancer, and made for the China Seas. We were... ...a Gama in 1499, and one of the nineteen principal islands of the Laccadive Archipelago, situated between 10º and 14º 30' N. lat., and 69º 50' 72" E. l... ...he torrent, had passed through the Isthmus of Suez. CHAPTER VI THE GRECIAN ARCHIPELAGO THE NEXT DAY, the 12th of February, at the dawn of day, the Nau... ...’s cage; and sometimes it went to great depths, for, between the Gre- cian Archipelago and Asia Minor we could not touch the bottom by more than a tho... ...ay 8th, we were still cross- ing Cape Hatteras, at the height of the North Caroline. The width of the Gulf Stream there is seventy-five miles, and its...

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... ness which, by description, so well I knew of sunset in those West Indian islands from which my father was returning— the knowledge that he returned ... ... at that time, his connection, of whatso- ever nature, with the late Queen Caroline had not occurred. So that altogether, to me, his case is inexplica... ...e north pole; the King of Owhyhee, at- tended by chieftains from the other islands of that cluster; Col. M’P ., on his return from the war in Ashantee... ...ent regions— names as yet unknown in Europe; the governor of the Lee- ward Islands, on departing for the West Indies; various depu- tations with petit... ...pure wantonness by some of the lawless rovers who frequented this solitary archipelago. Whether it were 276 Thomas de Quincey from some peculiar atro...

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...sting things The temple of the mightiest Daemon stands. Yet not the golden islands That gleam amid yon flood of purple light, ... ...et, Or where with sound like many voices sweet, Waterfalls leap among wild islands green, _15 Which framed for my lone boat... ...ing brain and overburdened breast. 51 51 51 51 51. Winding among the lawny islands fair, Whose blosmy forests starred the shadowy deep, The wingless b... ...ted by the pigs at the fair of San Giuliano.’ This was the period of Queen Caroline’s landing in England, and the struggles made by George IV to get r... ...he poet’s mind. An Enchantress, living in one of the islands of the Indian Archipelago, saves the life of a Pirate, a man of savage but noble nature. ...

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...ed Distribution of fresh-water productions — On the inhabitants of oceanic islands — Absence of Batra- chians and of terrestrial Mammals — On the rela... ...hians and of terrestrial Mammals — On the rela- tion of the inhabitants of islands to those of the near- est mainland —On colonisation from the neares... ...is, as Mr. Wallace, who is now study- ing the natural history of the Malay archipelago, has arrived at almost exactly the same general conclu- sions t... ...- times see are almost always imported from some other country, often from islands. Although I do not 46 On the Origin of Species doubt that some dom... ...eeing others compare, the birds from the separate islands of the Galapagos Archipelago, both one with another, and with those from the American mainla... ...s from Britain to Eastern China; and from Norway in the north to the Malay Archipelago in the south. In all parts of the world these stripes occur far... ...in the world: Norfolk Island, the Viti Archipelago, the Bonin Islands, the Caroline and Marianne Archipela- goes, and Mauritius, all possess their pec...

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...ting pirates and keeping a watch on the Turkish and Greek squadrons in the Archipelago. Captain T ait was a favourite with Sir Thomas Maitland, High C... ... was a favourite with Sir Thomas Maitland, High Commissioner of the Ionian Islands – King Tom as he was called – who frequently took passage in the La... ...el of his own, hunting out pirates, ‘then very notorious’ in the Lee- ward Islands, cruising after slavers, or carrying dollars and provisions for the... ...e ro- mance of engineering. And first from the cruise of 1859 in the Greek Islands and to Alexandria, take a few traits, inci- dents and pictures. ‘Ma... ...ed there and then, October 1st. But when we got to Norderney, we found the Caroline with shore end lying apparently aground, and could not understand ... ... to anchor suddenly and I went off in a small boat with the captain to the Caroline. It was cold by this time, and my arm was rather stiff and I was t... ...d my arm was rather stiff and I was tired; I hauled myself up on board the Caroline by a rope and found H– and two men on board. All the rest were try...

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... was, by the smoothness of its surface, as well as by the multitude of its islands, and the proximity of its neighbouring shores, extremely favourable... ...arly still continues to be paid in some parts of the Highlands and Western islands. Through the greater part of the Low country, the most usual wages ... ...pence to seven-pence a pair. At Lerwick, the small capital of the Shetland islands, tenpence a-day, I have been as- sured, is a common price of common... ...he distress of the country , and while a Russian fleet was cruizing in the Archipelago, had been very poorly supplied; fourthly, the demand of the nor... ... make, they are said to have gained considerably by one, that of the Royal Caroline, in 1731; and to have been losers, more or less, by almost all the...