What is "kealakekua"

Usage examples of "kealakekua".

By the time Captain Cook hit the beach at Kealakekua Bay the British Army was mired down in Virginia at a place called Yorktown, the Earl of Sandwich—the first Lord of the Admiralty and the patron for whom these islands were originally named— was so busy running women in and out of the Hellfire Club that he barely had time to think about anything else.

The natives of Kealakekua Bay were up early for the word had got about that the great ships were leaving.

In all their sailing among these islands, Kealakekua Bay was the only safe anchorage they had discovered.

As they were to learn later, the name of this bay, Kealakekua (Karakakooa, Cook called it) means "path of the gods," deriving from this great slide in the hill to the sea.

And properly, and according to tradition, he had come to rest at Kealakekua, "the path of the gods,"

By the time Captain Cook hit the beach at Kealakekua Bay the British Army was mired down in Virginia at a place called Yorktown, the Earl of Sandwich -- the first Lord of the Admiralty and the patron for whom these islands were originally named -- was so busy running women in and out of the Hellfire Club that he barely had time to think about anything else.

He had taken the hydrofoil to Kealakekua Bay, and as he moved swiftly past the bleak volcanic cliffs, he felt a depth of emotion that had surprised and even disconcerted him.

He had taken the hydrofoil to Kealakekua Bay, and as he moved swiftly past the bleak volcanic cliffs, he felt a depth of emotion that had surprised and even dis concerted him.