What is "tahiti"

Usage examples of "tahiti".

This was named the Aute Valley, from the circumstance that the first gardens of the aute, or cloth-plant, fetched from Tahiti, were set out here.

The only major development was the exploitation of the phosphate deposits of Makatea, an atoll north of Tahiti in the Tuamotu group.

This stately tree, which is rarely met with upon the Sandwich Islands, and then only of a very inferior quality, and at Tahiti does not abound to a degree that renders its fruit the principal article of food, attains its greatest excellence in the genial climate of the Marquesan group, where it grows to an enormous magnitude, and flourishes in the utmost abundance.

Only a few years before the Bounty came to Tahiti, Pipiri had with his own hands slain his two children, according to the rites of the horrible fraternity, which demanded that a candidate entering upon his novitiate should publicly kill his children and put his wife aside, unless she too should become an Areoi.

Christianity, with mission patronage and the only good harbour in Samoa in his territory, he was well placed to emulate Pomare II of Tahiti and establish a new set of rules for Samoan politics.

English family whose boat was found drifting erratically near Anaa island in the Tuamotu group, 240 miles east of Tahiti.

Mexico lay three thousand miles to the north, Chile two thousand miles to the east, Tahiti, Pitcairn, and the Tuamotu Archipelago two thousand miles to the west.

During a voyage to Hawaii, more than two thousand miles away, Tupaia always knew the direction in which his home island, Tahiti, lay.

First, we have no evidence that any other bits, pieces, pseudopods, or extrusions of the Foe other than the ones Robin encountered on Tahiti exist anywhere else in the Galaxy.

Tahiti and the islands of the archipelago of the Pomoutous, more than eighteen hundred miles from New Zealand, and more than four thousand five hundred miles from the American coast!

When her mission on Tahiti had been accomplished and she was westward bound, among the islands of the Tongan Group, Fletcher Christian, second-in-command of the vessel, raised the men in revolt against Captain William Bligh, whose conduct he considered cruel and insupportable.

Indian canoe and sail to Eimeo or one of them islands to leeward, a good hundred miles from Tahiti.

After a disastrous attempt to settle on the island of Tupuai, the Bounty returned to Tahiti, where some of the mutineers, as well as a number of innocent men who had been compelled to remain with the ship, were allowed to establish themselves on shore.

Bits of Europe, bits of the Middle East, India, Singapore, Bali, then Australia, New Zealand, Tahiti, Fiji, Hawaii, America.

PERHAPS AS A LAST-DITCHeffort to work on their marriage, Chris invited Liysa to come along with him on a Hawaiian Airlines flight where he had a three-day layover in Tahiti.