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... he was unable to locate a sheltered anchorage and consequently sailed north for five days until he could drop anchor in a sound he was later to name Shark’s Bay due to the abundance of sharks his men caught with hook and line. Accompanying his men ashore during their fruitless searches for water, Dampier observed and noted in his journal the plants and animals of the are...

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... of dragon, tooth of wolf, Witches mummy, maw and gulf Of the ravin‘d salt-sea shark, Root of hemlock digg‘d i‘ the dark, Liver of blaspheming Jew...

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...ip, passing huge wine jars, a young Hermes, sponges...coral...kelp...sharks. 51 lcaeus has taken back his former secretary. I am... ...orgot it was there, or didn’t know. I can’t say. But he had been hit by a shark and was bleeding. So I helped him, as best I could, both of us splash... ...ad bled to death, on the sand, his hands on his wound, the wound from the shark.” P We went up the mountain, to the outcrop and the temple, spent a... ...ke fans close to our keel. Streamers of kelp and seaweed tangled crab and shark and I fell asleep, my play forgotten, the lamp burning, burning, bur...

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...ip, passing huge wine jars, a young Hermes, sponges...coral...kelp...sharks. 47 lcaeus has taken back his former secretary. I am... ...orgot it was there, or didn’t know. I can’t say. But he had been hit by a shark and was bleeding. So I helped him, as best I could, both of us splash... ...ad bled to death, on the sand, his hands on his wound, the wound from the shark.” P We went up the mountain, to the outcrop and the temple, spent a...

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...Tell me as one read the articles and the imagination had been captured as last hear WGN NEWS asked the question, “Tell me this…. You mean there is a shark in within Lake Michigan?” That’s the urban legend guys – plausible when you realize how far a Bull Shark can swim up river or through the St. Lawrence. Though it’s a question how it would end up in Lake Michig...

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...The Young Kekuhaupi‘o. 1 -- A New Teacher. 3 -- The Ailolo Ceremony. 6 -- Luring the Niuhi Shark. 9 -- The Niuhi Shark: Methods of Capture. 11 -- Battling the Niuhi Shark. 13 -- Ailolo Offering and a Lua Contest. 15 -- Ikoi, the Tripping Club, and Delegate Kuhio. 18 -- Demonstrating Ikoi. 20 -- The Ikoi Contest and...

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...The Young Kekuhaupi‘o. 1 -- A New Teacher.. 3 -- The Ailolo Ceremony.. 6 -- Luring the Niuhi Shark.. 9 -- The Niuhi Shark: Methods of Capture.. 11 -- Battling the Niuhi Shark. 13 -- Ailolo Offering and a Lua Contest.. 15 -- Ikoi, the Tripping Club, and Delegate Kuhio. 18 -- Demonstrating Ikoi.. 20 -- The Ikoi Contest...

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...7 -- The Ki-Leaf Trumpet.158 -- A Kite And A Toy Canoe.167 -- The God Of Love.171 -- The Gift Of Ku.176 -- The Man Who Always Wore A Kihei.178 -- The Shark That Came For Poi.186 -- Punia And The Sharks.190 -- The Kihapu.196 -- The Cowry Shell.202 -- Food For Kohala.210 -- The Land Beneath The Sea.215 -- The Winning Of Makolea.222 -- ieie And Lehua. 230 -- The Chiefs Who We...

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...-- The Uala Field. 51 -- The Kalo Patch. 55 -- Kalo Slips. 58 -- Rain. 63 -- After the Rain. 70 -- Planting. 81 -- Matmaking. 85 -- Capturing a Tiger Shark. 93 -- Luau and Salt. 97 -- Luau. 97 -- Salt. 99 -- The Hula School. 103 -- Laka, Goddess of the Hula. 103 -- Chosen. 106 -- In the Halau. 110 -- Graduation. 113 -- Kahana and His Master. 119 -- Woodcarving. 119 -- Tatt...

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...n 1914 -- 1917) -- 9 -- Kapalilua: Places, Features, Fisheries and Practices Described in Kaao Hooniua Puuwai no Ka Miki -- 10 -- Accounts of Niuhi Shark Hunting in “He Moolelo Kaao no Kekuhaupio, Ke Koa Kaulana o ke Au o Kamehameha ka Nui” -- 20 -- H.W. Kinney’s “Visitor’s Guide” (1913) -- 24 -- Kapalilua Fishery Rights And Land Tenure Defined -- 26 -- Mahele Aina: Deve...

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...n sprouts in lemongrass sauce. Everyone digs in with their chopsticks, like sharks in a feeding frenzy. All Americans would feel squeamish at the in...

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...ila. 127 -- How the Gods Made People. 133 -- The Sacred Breadfruit Tree. 136 -- Some Tricks of Kamapuaa. 138 -- Why Hilu Fish Are Striped. 144 -- The Sharks of Puuloa. 148 -- The Pipi of Puuloa. 154 -- Kaehu and the Man-Eater. 156 -- The Song of the Kapa Log. 158 -- Paalua and Kawelu. 163 -- The Kauila Trees of Mauna Loa. 173 -- Pepe and Nui. 177 -- The Mischievous Boy of ...

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... 1996; March 16, 2001;-And April 27, 2003. 37 -- Kaulupulehu Ma Ka aina Kaha--Opelu Fisheries, Wai opae, 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 Mal...

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... Maladies and fears -- First appearance of the scurvy -- Capture of hammerhead sharks saves the expedition -- Trouble with the sultan of Zanzibar -- R... ... Cape............................................... 159 Capturing Hammer-head Sharks............................................ 161 A messenger from... ... beak is almost equally good; he likes to have a bag of sea shells handy, or a shark's tooth as a protection against shipwreck; though a branch of cor... ...his, as well as to stop bleeding and to keep off the evil eye. In default of a shark's tooth, a bit of coral or a piece of amber, he will be satisfied... ...ndition would have been even worse, but for the capture of several hammer-head sharks, the flesh of which, though somewhat unpalatable, the crews gree... ...al phenomena of the Equator. To Pigapheta everything was novel; he watched the sharks which followed the ships and listened to the stories of the sail... ... the ships and listened to the stories of the sailors who assured him that the sharks knew when one of their number was about to die, and followed the... ...h about their loins, and armed with spears and arrows tipped with the teeth of sharks. Very friendly the islanders proved to the famine-stricken Spani... ...ore, a distance of more than a mile. But with his escape from the ship and the sharks of the harbor his troubles were only begun. He knew that with th...

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...g the banking crisis at the end of the 1990s, lending was operated by loan sharks who took the majority of farming profits. The farmer is often a labo...

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... To Kilauea.. 81 -- A Controversy With A Priestess Of Pele.. 82 -- Rum Worse Than Pele. 83 -- Pele Still Dreaded.. 84 -- Bones Thrown To Pele And The Sharks.. 85 -- Levi Chamberlain's Account Of Kapiolani And Pete's Priestess (1824). 85 -- J.F. Goodrich's Account Of The Missionary Visit In 1823 And Description Of Kilauea In 1825. 86 -- Botanist, James Macrae At Kilauea In ...

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...he place names are well known and appreciated. Pele, the volcano goddess who turned so many luckless people into stones, is still feared and revered; sharks are sometimes considered protective; and the mischievous, sexually insatiable pig-man, Kama-pua a, delights and amuses. Most places on the Mainland seem, by comparison, barren and bereft of traditions older than those ...

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...- Lono The Thunderer. 31 -- Ku The Erect. 32 -- Kane The Procreator. 33 -- Kanaloa, Lord Of Ocean. 34 -- Names That Confer Status. 35 -- Forms. 35 -- Sharks. 35 -- Caterpillar. 37 -- Bitter Gourd. 38 -- Psychic Aspect Of Community Relationship. 39 -- Iv. The Kinship System. 40 -- Table I. Kinship Terms, Hawaiian And Maori. 42 -- Relationship. 42 -- Grandparents And Grandch...

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...ea, or plover, and sitting hula, like the one that imitates the manō, or shark. Hula festivals dot the calendar year-round. Perhaps the most WHAT...

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...s are all dry, he is gay as a lark, And will talk in contemptuous tones of the Shark, But, when the tide rises and sharks are around, His voice has a ...