Narrative of a tour through Hawaii, or Owhyhee with observations on the natural history of the Sandwich Islands, and remarks on the manners, customs, traditions, history, and language of their inhabitants (1827)
Ellis, William, 1794-1872 author · London H. Fisher, Son, and P. Jackson; Hatchard and Son; Seeley and Son; Hamilton, Adams, and Company; Sherwood and Company; J. Nisbet; Simpkin and Marshall; and J. Duncan · leaf 477
437 THROUGH HAWAII. enemy. On the 29th, Ī visited the ruins, and took a sketch of one of the idols, which stood sixteen feet above the wall, was upwards of three feet in breadth, and had been carved out of a single tree. … The above may be considered as a tolerable speci¬ men of the greater part of Hawaiian idols. The head has generally a most horrid appearance, the mouth being large and usually extended wide, exhibiting a
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