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Title: Eastern Pacific lands ; Tahiti and the Marquesas islands
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Christian, F. W. (Frederick William), b. 1867 Rouse, Martin Luther Ranfurly, Uchter John Mark Knox. 5th earl of, 1856-
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Publisher: London : R. Scott
Contributing Library: Brigham Young University Hawaii, Joseph F. Smith Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Consortium of Church Libraries and Archives

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t of two deep swirling wellsfed from the basin of a magnificent waterfall thatroars down over a grim wall of basalt, the valleythus shut in terminating in a gloomy funnel-shapedcleft of great and imposing depth. Noisy sea-birdsnest in the crannies. Above and around the foamingwelter wave great crisp masses of harts tongue,adiantum and asplenium, wet with motes of driftingspray, lending many a touch of tenderest green tothese black sullen walls of echoing rock. We devoteda whole day to visiting this imposing scene of Natureshandiwork, which has a grandeur of its own at leastequal to the sister wonder, the great waterfall of theFaataua River in Tahiti. Another curious recollection of Haka-Ui, is that of aramble Rario took me one day, during which heshowed me the relics of two large canoes of ancientmodel, lying in the shadow of the palm-groves agood way up the valley, where sturdy arms hadhauled them, and left them to moulder in fairybowers, with the music of singing-birds crooning over
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Uauna to Nuku-Hiva 181 their decaying timbers, to drown the murmur of theirold enemy, the distant surge, fretting and chafingat the rocks below. Tradition declares them to havebelonged to the first body of settlers who landed inthe valley from the mystic regions over-sea, Ahia-tue,Take-hee-hee and Havaii, of which some grand oldSouth Marquesan poet sings — Aue mouna, mouna o Havaii,Havaii tupu ai te ahi veavea. Hail! mighty mountains, mountains of Havaii!Havaii where the red flaming fire shoots up. These ancient craft will plough the seas no more ;like classic garden-gods they lie neglected ; like therude wood and stone hero-effigies of the men whosteered them across trackless leagues of ocean, theforest is hiding them out of sight. And there we left them in the shadow. Newtimes have come. The white mans tame leviathansof iron and steel now bridge the great waterwayswith a surer domination than the proas and double-canoes of these sea-gypsies, these Phoenicians of thePacific. And th

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