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... Hale - a - ka - la -We reach the brim - Novel scene opened at the top - Spec- tacle of grandeur and glory presented by the clouds - A play- ground for the youth of Heaven - Feelings belonging to such a position - Man's nothingness and ...
... Hale - a - ka - la -We reach the brim - Novel scene opened at the top - Spec- tacle of grandeur and glory presented by the clouds - A play- ground for the youth of Heaven - Feelings belonging to such a position - Man's nothingness and ...
Page 58
... Hale - a - Ka - La , or The House of the Sun. From its top , ten thousand feet above the rest of the world , the bright eye of day opens every morning with a golden glory , and sends his level beams across to the opposite range on West ...
... Hale - a - Ka - La , or The House of the Sun. From its top , ten thousand feet above the rest of the world , the bright eye of day opens every morning with a golden glory , and sends his level beams across to the opposite range on West ...
Page 74
... Hale - a - ka - la -We reach the brim - Novel scene opened at the top - Spec- tacle of grandeur and glory presented by the clouds — A play- ground for the youth of Heaven - Feelings belonging to such a position - Man's nothingness and ...
... Hale - a - ka - la -We reach the brim - Novel scene opened at the top - Spec- tacle of grandeur and glory presented by the clouds — A play- ground for the youth of Heaven - Feelings belonging to such a position - Man's nothingness and ...
Page 80
... Hale - a - ka - la , The House of the Sun. We make up our party at the Rev. Mr. Green's , who resides two thousand feet up the gentle declivity of the mountain . From his house , at five in the morning , we start for the summit of the ...
... Hale - a - ka - la , The House of the Sun. We make up our party at the Rev. Mr. Green's , who resides two thousand feet up the gentle declivity of the mountain . From his house , at five in the morning , we start for the summit of the ...
Page 82
... thousand feet by a familiar optical illusion , to a plane of vision as high as the very summit of Hale - a - ka - la ; and rising out of it was the glorious dome of Mauna Loa , on the great Island 82 LIFE IN THE SADCWICH ISLANDS .
... thousand feet by a familiar optical illusion , to a plane of vision as high as the very summit of Hale - a - ka - la ; and rising out of it was the glorious dome of Mauna Loa , on the great Island 82 LIFE IN THE SADCWICH ISLANDS .
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